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Go beyond the headlines of California’s drought and groundwater
issues and gain a deeper understanding of the state’s water
issues at our Water 101 workshop on Feb. 5-6 in West Sacramento.
Signups are now underway for the Water Education Foundation’s
March 11-13 tour of the Lower Colorado River. Don’t miss this
opportunity to visit key sites along the “lifeblood of the
Southwest,” including a private tour of Hoover Dam, Central
Arizona Project’s Mark Wilmer pumping plant, the Havasu
National Wildlife refuge, farms in the Imperial and Coachella
valleys, and the Salton Sea.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the water bond and
the question of long-term water management are among the
important and timely topics to be addressed at this
year’s Executive Briefing, the Water Education Foundation’s
annual conference.
The 32nd annual event, “The Value of Water: Building Momentum
in 2015,” will feature key speakers and top experts in their
fields. The Briefing will be March 25 at the Red
Lion Woodlake Hotel and Conference Center in Sacramento.
The year may be coming to a close, but there’s still time to help
support the Water Education
Foundation. Your tax-deductible gift will help us continue our
mission to provide unbiased information on water issues through
facilitation, education and outreach, as we have for 37 years.
If you spend money on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, please
consider taking part in #GivingTuesday tomorrow when
charities, families, businesses, community centers and students
around the world will come together for one common purpose: to
celebrate generosity and to give.
#GivingTuesday inspires people to give back to communities,
charities and causes they support. Please consider kicking
off your holiday season with an end-of-year, tax-deductible
donations to the Water Education Foundation, a 501(c)3
nonprofit.
Learn the Basics and Beyond of Water in California
As drought and groundwater issues continue to dominate headlines,
attend our popular Water 101 workshop to gain a deeper
understanding of the key issues associated with the
life-sustaining resource from the new groundwater law, to water
rights, to how water moves across the state.
Leading policymakers and experts will serve as the
teachers of this 1-1/2 day workshop on Feb. 5-6 at
the Civic Center Galleria in West Sacramento.
With Cyber Monday just days away, remember that you can help the
Water Education Foundation when shopping online. The Foundation
is a participant in the AmazonSmile Foundation program,
which allows Amazon customers to designate a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization to receive 0.5% of the purchase price of
products bought.
The Water Education Foundation will be among the
nation’s charities and nonprofits participating in #GivingTuesday on Dec. 2.
Coinciding with Thanksgiving and the kickoff of the holiday
shopping season, #GivingTuesday harnesses the power of social
media to create a national moment around the holidays dedicated
to giving, similar to how Black Friday and Cyber Monday have
become days that are synonymous with holiday shopping.
Looking to lessons learned from the Mono Basin water-sharing
decision made 20 years ago is one way to move forward in the bid
to ease the effects of drought, according to organizers of the
Nov. 17 Mono
Lake at 20: Past, Present and Future symposium in Sacramento.
A few seats remain for the Foundation’s Nov. 6-7 San Joaquin River
Restoration Tour. This two-day, one-night tour offers you the
opportunity to learn the latest about one of the largest river
restoration projects in the nation. The tour starts and ends in
Fresno.
Tentative stops include Friant Dam and spillway northeast of
Fresno, the San Joaquin Trout Hatchery, area farms, restoration
areas along the river, area farms, Mendota Pool and various flood
control features.
Jennifer Bowles, the executive director of the Water Education
Foundation, recently did an interview with Radio Disney in San
Francisco to talk about various water issues, including the
drought and groundwater.
The newest issue of Western Water magazine examines salinity in
the San Francisco-San Joaquin Delta, a vital estuary and critical
juncture of the state’s water delivery system.
Written by the Foundation’s Gary Pitzer, the September/October
issue discusses the how salinity during drought is affecting
fish, wildlife and farms.
In wet years, dry years and every type of water year in between,
the daily intrusion and retreat of salinity in the Delta is a
constant pattern.
The Water Education Foundation is now participating in the
AmazonSmile Foundation program, which allows Amazon
customers to designate a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to
receive 0.5% of purchase price of products bought.
AmazonSmile provides the customer with the same products, prices
and service as Amazon.com, but has the added bonus of allowing
you to support the Water Education Foundation.
Join us on the Nov. 6-7 San Joaquin River
Restoration Tour that will explore the challenges associated
with restoration of the San Joaquin River, a program that is the
result of a legal settlement. See firsthand the progress being
made and discuss the current conflicts so you can better
understand the coordination taking place to implement one of the
largest river restoration projects in the nation.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Water Leaders Class, a yearlong program
that educates young professionals from diverse backgrounds about
water issues. The deadline to apply is Dec. 12,
2014. The class begins January 2015.
Drought, groundwater overdraft and new groundwater law are among
the topics that will be addressed at the Groundwater Resources
Association’s 23rd Annual Conference. The Water Education
Foundation is a cooperating organization for the Oct. 15-16 event
to be held in Sacramento.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark State Water
Resources Control Board’s “public trust” decision regarding Mono
Lake and its tributary creeks.
The impacts of this decision and what it has meant for Mono Lake
and beyond will be the focus of a one-day symposium on Nov. 17.
The symposium will be held at the Byron Sher Auditorium, CalEPA
Headquarters in Sacramento. The symposium is sponsored by the UC
Berkeley’s Wheeler Institute for Water Law and Policy. The Water
Education Foundation is a cosponsor.
Attend the Water Education Foundation’s special Water 101
Workshop in Southern California in early October and hear from
one of the people who helped formulate the historic groundwater
legislation recently signed by Gov. Brown.
Lester Snow, executive director of the California Water
Foundation and the former director of the Department of Water
Resources, was a key player in the formulation of the package of
groundwater bills – AB 1739, SB 1168 and SB 1319.
The preliminary agenda is available for the sixth annual Santa
Ana River Watershed Conference to be held on Oct. 14 in
Riverside. The 2014 theme of the annual conference is Keeping
Our Cool.
The keynote speaker will be UCLA geography professor and
researcher Glen MacDonald, who will address what drought
conditions might mean for water resources of the future.
