This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• Join this morning’s Update 2018 workshop and webinar
• Webinar for drought contingency planning set for next week
• The toll water challenges take on the nation’s disadvantaged communities
• California-Australia webinar will look at irrigation technologies
• CWC to get updates on investment program and State Water Project
• CAL FIRE workshops offer information on grants for removing dead trees
• Department of Fish and Wildlife to provide overview of new strategies program

This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• DWR Magazine cover story provides a look at the Oroville Dam spillway incident
• Comments on proposed water loss audit regulations due June 2
• Online survey will help evaluate DWR’s groundwater support services
• PPIC releases new fact sheet on California groundwater
• EPA’s monthly webinar series will look at web tools for environmental change
• Water council’s newsletter has update on groundwater monitoring network
• A study of a California project that could lead to worldwide meadow restoration

This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• Tribal advisory committee sets June date for planning meeting in Los Angeles
• Update 2018 advisory committee meeting summary posted by DWR
• Webinar will explore using stormwater to help recharge California’s groundwater
• New radar system should help Bay Area flood control managers
• Notices of interest in federal grant program must be submitted by June 15
• New location chosen for next California Water Quality Monitoring Council meeting
• Some ideas to provide water providers with non-traditional revenue

This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• Comments being accepted on draft PSP for funding of groundwater sustainability
• California’s climate change strategy outlined in resource agency’s draft report
• Report offers ways to integrate climate science into management plans
• Oroville Dam update is on the agenda of the next California Water Commission meeting
• Israeli delegation to participate in Sacramento water and agriculture forum
• EPA webinars will provide overview of Water Finance Clearinghouse
• Reclamation releases pilot version of water information website

This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• Stakeholders offer their perspectives on sustaining IRWM in California
• Webinar set for applicants of the Water Storage Investment Program
• Sea-level rise report provides updated information for greenhouse gas scenarios
• An approach for corporate water targets from a different point of view
• Policy paper takes a look at lessons learned on modeling in the Delta
• The annual California Invasive Species Action Week will begin June 3

Sponsorship Opportunities!

2017 Sierra Water Workgroup Summit 

July 24-25 in Kings Beach, CA

Over the past ten years and across the State, diverse groups have been coming together to create model Integrated Regional Water Management Plans (IRWMPs) to ensure reliable water supply, protect water quality and restore watersheds.  While in various stages of pre-planning, planning and implementation, IRWMPs now cover almost the entire State of California, all of the Sierra and Cascade Regions. The Sierra Water Workgroup mission is to assist regional efforts to protect and enhance water quality, water supply, and watershed health; to develop cooperative regional responses; and to facilitate reinvestment in our watersheds and water resources by all beneficiaries.

The 2017 Sierra Water Work Group Summit, sponsored by the State Bar of California, Environmental Law Section, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, and the Sierra Nevada Alliance will take place in Kings Beach, CA. The Summit theme this year is Legal and Legislative Strategies to Protect our Headwaters.

Our 2017 keynote speaker Martha Davis is the Executive Manager for Policy Development at the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA). Ms. Davis is responsible for the Agency’s legislative and policy development programs, including special initiatives addressing renewable energy, water supply development, and water quality protection. Previously, Ms. Davis served as the Executive Director for Californians and the Land and the Mono Lake Committee.

This year’s Summit is a one and a half-day workshop focused on headwater issues state-wide. The theme “Legal and Legislative Strategies to Protecting our Headwaters”.

We will spend the first day framing questions and strategies regarding how Headwaters issues can be addressed with legislative and policy strategies. First we will focus on a legal panel of experts, then 4 main breakouts:

• Unrepresented (DAC definition, human rights to water, tribal involvement);
• Climate Change (water quality, water supply, forest management);
• Integrated Regional Water Management Areas
• Coordinated Advocacy for the Headwaters

On our second day we will have the opportunity to hear from legislative members/staff on how the State and Federal government is addressing headwater issues. Then there will be a faciltated discussion by all participants on the strategies developed by stakeholders, and how dollars are expected to follow those policy trends. This year’s summit will also include a field trip.

To find out more about the Sierra Water Workgroup event, and how to sponsor the event please contact SWWG Fiscal Manager Holly Jorgenson by email at holly@sacriver.org or Director Liz Mansfield by email lhmansfield@gmail.com or by phone (916)273-0488.

This week’s California Water Plan eNews includes:

• New executive order lifts drought state of emergency for most of California
• Using lessons from the recent drought, State releases long-term water use plan
• Watershed University set to begin a series of monthly, one-hour webinars
• Two-day conference on developing a GSP set for next month in Modesto
• California Water Commission to receive briefing, updates on SGMA
• Sierra Fund holding Sierra headwater conference, Sacramento River tour
• P3 summit offers ideas on managing and improving water systems