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Western Water Magazine May 25, 2016

Western Water Spring 2016
The Delta at a Crossroads

In this issue:

Main Article – The Delta at a Crossroads

Editor’s Note: Plying California’s Most Political Waters

Happenings: Tour the Bay-Delta this summer; attend our international groundwater conference; Western Water on Tap – the Foundation launches a new blog

Water Leaders – Where are they now?: Featuring Tina Shields
Water Manager, Imperial Irrigation District

Sense of Place: Hetch Hetchy

 

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Main Article: The Delta at a Crossroads

.Many Californians are not aware of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta but its signifi­cance to the state’s water supply picture has never been more magnified. A transformed region of sunken islands and crisscrossed sloughs and channels protected by earthen levees that perform more like dams, the Delta is the hub of the state’s water system.

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Editor’s Note: Plying California’s Most Political Waters

Jennifer Bowles Having lived in Southern California for several years, I always knew the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta existed and the pivotal role it plays in California water. As a reporter, I visited the Delta a couple times during fellowships for a few hours here and there, and I keenly studied maps to understand how water flows through it.

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Happenings
Tour the Delta; International Groundwater Conference; Western Water on Tap – new blog launches

Ferry ride across the San Francisco Bay
Tour the Bay-Delta this Summer

Go deep into California’s water hub and traverse the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 720,000-acre network of islands and waterways that support the state’s water system and is one of the state’s most important ecosystems.

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Post May 27, 2016 Water Leaders

Water Leaders – Where are they now?
Tina Shields, Water Manager, Imperial Irrigation District

Tina Shields

Class Year: 2001

Class Research Project: Water Use Efficiency

What was your job when you were a Water Leader?

Senior Engineer, IID’s Resources Planning & Management Section

What are you doing now?

I help manage the district’s water department, consisting of more than 450 dedicated staff focused on managing and delivering IID’s annual 3.1 million acre-feet Colorado River entitlement to our largely agricultural customer base in southeastern California.

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Sense of Place: Hetch Hetchy

The Hetch Hetch Valley in 1914 (USGS photo) The gooseneck-shaped Hetch Hetchy reservoir sits glistening beneath magnificent granite canyon walls, similar to those towering in neighboring and more popular Yosemite Valley, the cornerstone of Yosemite National Park. The reservoir was created when a dam plugged the Tuolumne River and flooded Hetch Hetchy, a valley once heralded as “a grand landscape garden, one of nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples” by Sierra Club founder John Muir.

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