Melinda Terry: Listening to the Delta
This is the first of a three-part series of posts written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco that will take a look at the Delta and California water through the eyes of those who are on...
View ArticleKate Poole: Moving Water in California: God, Gravity, and Lawyers
This second in a three-part series of profiles written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco that takes a look at the Delta and California water through the eyes of those who are on the...
View ArticleChuck Bonham: Navigating the Rapids
This is the third in a series of profiles written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco. The first in the series was Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency, followed by the Natural...
View ArticleA chat with Chris Knopp, new Executive Officer of the Delta Stewardship Council
Last week, the Delta Stewardship Council announced the selection of Chris Knopp as the new Executive Officer to replace the retiring Joe Grindstaff. Filling Mr. Grindstaff’s shoes won’t be easy, but...
View ArticleDelta Watermaster Craig Wilson talks about the roles and responsibilities of...
In 2009, the Delta Reform Act directed the State Water Resources Control Board to appoint a watermaster for the Delta. In 2010, Craig Wilson was appointed as the first Delta Watermaster. Since taking...
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Governor’s State of the State address: What he said about water and climate...
From the Governor’s State of the State address: ” … Among all our uncertainties, weather is one of the most basic. We can’t control it. We can only live with it, and now we have to live with a very...
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In her own words: Pat Mulroy: “Water management in the Wild West: Lessons...
Here is Pat Mulroy, former General Manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, in her own words, speaking at the 2014 spring conference of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA): On...
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Jay Famiglietti at TEDx: Can We End the Global Water Crisis?
In May of 2013, Jay Famiglietti, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Founding Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, gave a speech at Tedx event on ending the global...
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Metropolitan’s Jeff Kightlinger speaks to Los Angeles business community at...
The September 22nd luncheon meeting of TownHall Los Angeles featured Jeffrey Kightlinger, General Manager and CEO of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as the featured speaker, who...
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In his own words … Governor Brown talks water at Stanford conference: “This...
Yesterday,the Hamilton Project and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment held a conference at Stanford titled, New Directions for U.S. Water Policy which brought together officials and...
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Congressman George Miller on the Delta and water policy: “I think we’ve...
On September 24th, the ‘Bay + Delta + Water: Better Together’ conference brought over 200 elected officials, agency leaders, and community advocates to Antioch to discuss the important role freshwater...
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Felicia Marcus: California Water: Where We Are, and Where We Ought to Go
Each year, the Environmental Law Section of the California State Bar holds their annual conference at the Tenaya Lodge at the outskirts of Yosemite National Park. The Saturday sessions kicked off with...
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Deputy Secretary Michael Connor opens Bay Delta Science Conference: ‘Policy...
The 8th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, held October 28 through 30th, 2014 in Sacramento, brought together over 1000 scientists, managers and policymakers to hear the latest research,...
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Terraforming California 2.0: Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger on collaborating and...
Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger is the Associate Director for Projects at the U.S. Geological Survey. Prior to joining the USGS last year, Dr. Mueller-Solger was the Interagency Ecological Program Lead...
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Delta Stewardship Council Chair Randy Fiorini on Actionable Science in the Delta
As Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, Randy Fiorini heads the agency that is charged with developing and implementing a long term plan for the Delta that will achieve the coequal goals, and to do...
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A. G. Kawamura: “Food is a privilege, not a right”
A. G. Kawamura is owner and partner of Orange County Produce, LLC, and a board member of Western Growers Association. He recently spoke at a TEDx Orange Coast Conference. Here’s what he had to say:...
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Craig Wilson, the first Delta watermaster, reflects on his four years in office
Just last week, the State Water Resources Control Board appointed Michael George to be the new Delta Watermaster. He’ll be filling the shoes of Criag Wilson, who was appointed in 2010 to be the...
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Peter Gleick: Solutions in a world of peak water limits
For one week each October, Chicago Ideas Week brings together some of the world’s most outstanding speakers to present their ideas and inspire the innovations of tomorrow at 80+ sessions across the...
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Senator Darrell Steinberg on legislative leadership: Getting to a two-thirds...
At the 2014 fall conference of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the keynote speaker at Wednesday’s luncheon was Senator Darrell Steinberg. He gave this speech to conference...
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Celeste Cantu: A 21st-century relationship with water
The 21st Century delivers unprecedented challenges to water, key to life, economy and the environment. Unless we examine our relationship with water, we will continue to take it for granted, waste and...
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