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Budgeting Water for Fish and Flows
The next time endangered fish swim too close to Delta export pumps, environmental managers will have a new way to save them. It's not a cutting-edge technology, but rather the Environmental Water Account developed by CALFED architects, who hope it will prove to be the holy grail of water management - a means of achieving species recovery without reducing water deliveries to farms and cities ... »Read More

In This Issue

Bulletin Board
Breeding Like Rabbits - The riparian brush rabbit, added to the federal Endangered Species list in March, will get a boost ... »Read More

Whale Blow Out
Ferry passengers have become whale-watchers over the past few months, jolted from their morning doldrums by the sight of gray whales ... »Read More

EBMUD Eyes PG&E Dams
Ever since energy deregulation got under way in California, private companies have been salivating over the prospect of getting a piece of the action ... »Read More

Cleaning Alameda with Steam and Bugs
A team of environmental engineers from UC Berkeley just completed a multi-year study of contamination at the Alameda Naval Air Station ... »Read More

Spring Training
Autumn may be approaching, but the folks in the Bay Area Wetlands Planning Group (BAWPG) are getting ready for a "spring training" ... »Read More

Slow Going on the Yuba
Gold miners extracted more loot from the Yuba River Basin than any other basin in the Central Valley ... »Read More

Blueprint Needs Green
After six years, and countless hours of negotiation among dozens of stakeholder groups, this summer saw the release of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program's Framework ... »Read More

Steep Yourself in Science
CALFED's Science Conference 2000, on October 3-5, offers over 100 sessions for the broad community ... »Read More

Orchestrating Integrity
"The moral authority of science" is the high-falutin phrase water czar Steve Ritchie uses to describe what CALFED hopes to gain ... »Read More

Restoration Between Covers
The ink is dry on the new State of the Estuary Report 2000, a Restoration Primer for the San Francisco Bay ... »Read More


 
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