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Notes from the Water Side

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Water News and Commentary

DWR Water News Clipping Service (week days)	Email a subscription request to (water_news_editors@water.ca.gov)
GrokSurf’s San Diego	George Jantzen’s excellent reporting on San Diego area water issues, plus links to other water blogs
Aquafornia	Water news from the Water Education Foundation
California Water Blog	UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
On the Public Record	Pithy and entertaining; not for the easily offended
Maven’s Notebook	Breaking news and reports from around the state

Water NGOs and more

Water For People	Clean water for everyone, forever. Gillingham Water supports Water For People.
Restore Hetch Hetchy	Continue to use the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite N.P. as a reservoir for San Francisco, or not? This is why water supply is such a fun business.
Public Policy Institute of California	Dispassionate policy analysis of water and other issues
Platte River Recovery Restoration Program	Restoring habitat for endangered species on the Platte River. Managed by friends of Gillingham Water.
San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy	The wetlands in our backyard. Protecting nature, connecting communities.

Agencies, Laws, Rules, Regulations

California Department of Water Resources	State government’s water management agency
CA Water Code	For when you need to go to the source
SWP Reliability Report	Projected SWP delivery reliability; updated every 2 yr.
CA Division of Drinking Water	Formerly DHS, formerly CDPH, now part of the State Water Resources Control Board. Same regulations, new name.
CA Office of Water Use Efficiency	Everything you need to know on conservation, UWMPs, SB 7x-7, and more
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California	The mother agency for southern California water supply
San Diego County Water Authority	The wholesale water agency for most of San Diego County.
DRW Bulletin 61 (1958)	This document, "Investigation of Alternative Aqueduct Routes to San Diego County," formed the planning basis for the construction of the Second San Diego Aqueduct. (23 MB download)

Snowpack, Runoff, Weather, El Nino, Etc.

CA Snowpack Data Site	CA Data Exchange Center, DWR
CA Snowpack plots	Ditto
Colorado River Basin Snowpack	U.S. Bureau of Reclamation site
Mammoth Mountain Snow Report	We at Gillingham Water believe in the importance of firsthand snowpack inspections . . . for purely professional purposes of course!
CA Weather Blog	Wonkish commentary by Weather West. Coverage of the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, El Nino (or not), etc.
Lake Powell Elevation	The better to plan your next excursion deep into the Escalante! (You can pull up a plot by clicking on Historic (sic) Data, and selecting Lake Powell.)
CA Reservoir Storage	More from the CA Data Exchange Center, DWR
San Diego Area Reservoir Storage	Site maintained by SDCWA
Facts on Water Use	Facts on California water use, from PPIC

Water Conservation How-To (as recommended by . . .)

Water Conservation at Home	As recommended by the middle school students in Prentice Wisconsin, an article from the Improvenet.com site with tips for saving water at home.
More to come . . .

Water is Amazing

Amazing Properties of Water	From Cambridge University
Fun with Waves and Oceanography	Where did that wave come from?
More to come . . .

Notes from the Water Side