- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 13, 2014
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Below is a Notice of Water Action Plan: Sustainable Groundwater Management Workshops to develop Input on Groundwater Legislative Proposal. joint workshop notice The Workshop dates are: Monday, March 24, 2014 (Ideas, Proposals, and Feedback) Wednesday, April 16, 2014 (Proposed Solutions) Comment Deadline on the Proposal is April 25, 2014. Comments should be sent to: groundwater@gov.ca.gov […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 13, 2014
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ACWA Spring Conference & Exhibition Focuses on Drought Challenges and Solutions With historic drought conditions facing the state many of our public agencies are literally “running on empty.” Unless we see some sort of miracle, there will likely be significant impacts on the state’s communities, economy and environment in the coming months, and […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 13, 2014
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ACWA’s eNews is a weekly roundup of California water news and events. Governor’s Office Creates Local Government Drought Toolkit The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) has created a new toolkit for local governments that provides guidance for coordinating on drought response and meeting the governor’s call for a 20% reduction in water […]
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- by john
- onMarch 10, 2014
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California Drought Update for March 10, 2014 Inbox x ACWA acwabox@acwa.com via mta-c3poola1.cluster3.convio.net 2:37 PM (1 hour ago) March 10, 2014 The California Drought Update is compiled by the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) to keep media and other audiences current on drought conditions, impacts, news and other developments. Please visit ACWA’s […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 9, 2014
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The March 7 edition of ACWA News is now available online. Sacramento and the nation’s capital are in full gear, and this issue takes an in-depth look at the flurry of state and federal water legislation that legislators have introduced in recent weeks. Gov. Jerry Brown quickly signed a $687 million emergency drought bill, and […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 7, 2014
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ACWA’s eNews is a weekly roundup of California water news and events. Rendon Adds $1 Billion More for Water Storage in Bond Proposal Assembly Member Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) has added an additional $1 billion for water storage in an amended version of his water bond bill. AB 1331 now contains $2.5 billion for […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 5, 2014
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The Association of California Water Agencies and the Western Coalition of Arid States sent the below letter to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting that the Science Advisory Board be given more time to review the draft report entitled Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters: A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Evidence. These […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 4, 2014
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Congressman Costa introduces bills to increase California water storage From Congressman Jim Costa’s website: Rep. Jim Costa introduced a package of legislation that would invest in California’s water infrastructure and expedite construction on existing storage projects to improve water reliability across the state. The current drought has highlighted the dire need for long-term water […]
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- by BPC Staff
- onMarch 4, 2014
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Below in PDF is a copy of the remarks made by US Senator Dianne Feinstein at a meeting of the Association of California Water Agencies on February 26, 2014 Senator Dianne Feinstein Remarks for ACWA
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