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Category Archives: California Water
You Can’t Always Get What You Want – A Mick Jagger Theory of Drought Management
by Jay Lund [This is a reposting of a CaliforniaWaterBlog.com post from February 2016, near the end of the previous drought. For human uses, conditions seem somewhat similar to this point in the previous drought, so this perspective might be … Continue reading
The Dreamt Land by Mark Arax: We’re all complicit in California’s water follies
by Ann Willis We are all sinners. At least, that’s the impression Mark Arax leaves in The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California. What’s bold, and distinguishes this book from others about California, is that Arax grapples with … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, California Water, Drought, education, Stressors, Sustainability
Tagged Ann Willis
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The Collapse of Water Exports – Los Angeles, 1914
by Jay Lund “In February, 1914, the rainfall in the Mojave Desert region exceeded by nearly fifty per cent in three days the average annual precipitation. Where the steel siphon crosses Antelope valley at the point of greatest depression, an … Continue reading
The folly of unimpaired flows for water quality management
by Ann Willis Unimpaired streamflow has long been the benchmark against which current stream flows are evaluated for environmental purposes. The underlying assumption is that if there is water in a stream, the stream must be healthy. A closer look … Continue reading
Posted in California Water
Tagged Ann Willis, environmental flows, Klamath River, Shasta River, water quality, water temperature
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Eastern San Joaquin Valley and other CA drinking water supplies at risk in the next drought
by Amanda Fencl, Rich Pauloo, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Hervé Guillon During the 2012-2016 drought, the state received more than 2,500 domestic well failure reports, the majority of which were in the Central Valley (DWR 2018). This left thousands of people without a … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Drinking water, Drought
Tagged Amanda Fencl, California drought
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Getting Strategic about Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation in California
by Jeanette Howard, Kurt Fesenmyer, Theodore Grantham, Joshua Viers, Peter Ode, Peter Moyle, Sarah Kupferberg, Joseph Furnish, Andrew Rehn, Joseph Slusark, Raphael Mazor, Nicholas Santos, Ryan Peek, and Amber Wright An essential first step to protect biodiversity is understanding what species … Continue reading
U.C. Davis Law’s Environmental Law Center Releases Proposition 3 White Paper
by Richard Frank This article originally appeared on Legal Planet on October 31, 2018 The U.C. Davis School of Law’s California Environmental Law & Policy Center has published a detailed analysis of one of the most controversial initiative measures facing … Continue reading
The Public Trust and SGMA
by Brian Gray In a recent decision in litigation over flows and salmon survival in the Scott River system, the California Court of Appeal has ruled that groundwater pumping that diminishes the volume or flow of water in a navigable … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Groundwater
Tagged Brian Gray, Klamath River, public trust, Scott River, SGMA
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Water storage successes, failures, and challenges from Proposition 1
by Jay Lund The California Water Commission recently allocated $2.7 billion from Proposition 1 bonds for eight water storage projects. Proposition 1 was passed in 2014 to fund a range of projects, including “public purposes” of water storage projects, such … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Uncategorized, Water Supply and Wastewater
Tagged Jay Lund, Proposition 1, water storage
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Science, the Delta, and the future of San Joaquin salmon
by Peter B. Moyle I feel fortunate to be a biologist in an era and place, California, where science matters. Routine scientific studies rarely make headlines but they are relied on by decision makers because they reduce uncertainty, bit by … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, California Water, Fish, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, San Joaquin River
Tagged Peter Moyle
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