March 13, 2013
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Half a century ago, the State of California built the State Water Project. It was a bold project, spanning two thirds of the state, from Oroville Dam on the Feather… Continue reading
March 11, 2013
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Last week, the University of Southern California released an ambitious new report entitled “Water Supply Scarcity in Southern California: Assessing Water District L… Continue reading
February 8, 2013
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
NRDC recently joined a coalition of water agencies, business leaders and environmentalists in releasing a new approach to address the challenges facing the San Francisco … Continue reading
January 16, 2013
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Today, a diverse coalition of environmental and business groups and urban water agencies released a new “portfolio-based” conceptual alternative to meet the e… Continue reading
December 14, 2012
by Theo Spencer
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Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York
The Interior Department earlier this week released a long-awaited study on future water supplies from the Colorado River Basin. The news was not good.
The Colorado River Basin Wate… Continue reading
December 12, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Today, the Bureau of Reclamation released a landmark Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study that has the potential to mark a new era in the management of the … Continue reading
November 13, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Salmon Index Blog Series
The 20th Anniversary of the CVPIA – the Failure of Salmon Doubling
One Fish, Two Fish – The New Bay-Delta Salmon Doubling Inde… Continue reading
Share on FacebookOctober 30, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Twenty years ago today, President George H.W. Bush signed the most visionary water reform legislation ever passed by Congress, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act…. Continue reading
June 21, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
One of the surprising conclusions of NRDC’s new paper on proposed western water pipelines is the number of such proposals in the Colorado River Basin. W… Continue reading
June 20, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
You hear it all over – the dam building era is over. MSNBC said it. The National Research Council also said it — in a far drier fashion. In a re… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJune 11, 2012
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
The two largest river systems and water sources in the arid West are the Colorado River and the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Both face growing challenges, shaped in sig… Continue reading
February 14, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
In his State of the State address, Governor Brown emphasized his commitment to developing a visionary Bay-Delta plan that will restore the estuary and its fish, and ensur… Continue reading
February 6, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Last week, I posted this piece about Southern California Urban Water Management Plans. Those plans show a significant trend toward investments in local supplies and… Continue reading
February 3, 2012
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Last week, the Luskin Center at UCLA sponsored a conference called “The Future of Water in Southern California.” The conference lived up to its ambitious titl… Continue reading
December 13, 2011
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Last Tuesday, the Economic Roundtable released a report evaluating the economic benefits of local water supply projects in the Los Angeles area. The report pr… Continue reading
November 7, 2011
by Kelly Coplin
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Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco
Last week USGS scientists and academic colleagues released an integrated assessment, the first of its kind, of how the Bay-Delta ecosystem will respond to climate change.
The authors … Continue reading
August 18, 2011
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco The Colorado River flows as a slender thread through one of the driest regions in America. In addition to supporting natural beauty, recreation and critical ecosystems, the r… Continue reading
Share on FacebookAugust 18, 2011
by Ed Osann
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Ed Osann, Senior Policy Analyst, Santa Monica How many alarms can you sleep through? Two or three, maybe? How about ten years’ worth, or twenty, or thirty? Over the last several decades, the weight of evidence has steadily grown… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJune 11, 2011
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the June 2 House Subcommittee hearing on Congressman Nunes’ H.R. 1837 was the lack of focus on solutions. California faces real water ch… Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 12, 2011
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco After years of being the state’s forgotten water management stepchild, the need to improve California’s nation-trailing groundwater management is beginning to get the attenti… Continue reading
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