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- Coverage of Salmon Summit (April 2, 2010)
- Facts are Stubborn Things (January 25, 2010)
- 60 Minutes’ Piece on California Water Crisis Should’ve Addressed Solutions (January 5, 2010)
- A Drought Agenda for California (June 11, 2009)
- A New Vision for the Bureau of Reclamation (November 25, 2008)
- A Rare Opportunity for Change: California's Five New Water Bills (August 10, 2009)
- A Tale of Two Peripheral Canals. Or is it Three? (January 8, 2009)
- A Water Agency for the 21st Century: Can "Mother Met" Become Met 2.0? (November 20, 2009)
- About Myths, Water and California’s Salmon Industry (March 16, 2010)
- All the Tools in the Toolbox (February 26, 2010)
- America's Water Crisis Gets the Jon Stewart Treatment (July 23, 2009)
- Another Quiet Water Supply Solution – Capturing Urban Stormwater (February 1, 2010)
- Assemblyman Huffman Writes to DWR about State-Created CESA Violation (February 11, 2010)
- Bill Reilly’s Call for Leadership from Governor Schwarzenegger (May 30, 2009)
- California Hits Peak Water, But Virtual River Offers Solution (October 15, 2009)
- California’s Dry Summer – and the Path Forward. (April 29, 2009)
- Criticisms of the Water Package are Wide of the Mark (December 22, 2009)
- DWR’s Analysis of a Peripheral Canal for the Bay-Delta Estuary (May 21, 2008)
- Dam Advocates Make Case for the Virtual River (March 10, 2010)
- Dateline Las Vegas – Hell Has Frozen Over (April 21, 2010)
- Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – BDCP (April 30, 2010)
- Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Flood Management and Credibility in the Delta (April 26, 2010)
- Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Realistic Phasing (April 29, 2010)
- Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Science and Adaptive Management (April 28, 2010)
- Delta Stewardship Council Keys to Success – Show Me the Money (April 26, 2010)
- Duct Tape, Baling Wire and Adaptive Management (February 14, 2009)
- From Cotton Farms to Solar Farms (May 13, 2009)
- Good to the Last Drop? (May 28, 2008)
- Hope is a Thing with Fins (October 15, 2009)
- Horseshoes, Hand Grenades and California Water Policy (September 14, 2009)
- Modesto Bee Story about the Agricultural Economy (April 20, 2010)
- Moving and Inspiring Stories at the Salmon Summit (April 1, 2010)
- NASA Report Reveals California Is Drawing Too Much Out of Its Groundwater Account (December 18, 2009)
- Native Landscaping Saves Money AND Water (January 20, 2010)
- New Report Shows Enormous Potential for Agricultural Water Conservation (July 24, 2009)
- On Leadership and the Water Package (November 6, 2009)
- On Smelt and the Pacific Legal Foundation (January 27, 2010)
- PFMC Votes for a Token Salmon Season – A Sober Debate in the Fishing Community (April 16, 2010)
- Pima Cotton Farmers: Making More Money with Less Water (February 1, 2010)
- Proposed ESA Rollbacks -- A Fork in the Road (February 16, 2010)
- Reason #1 – Trust (February 17, 2010)
- Remembering Tom Graff (November 13, 2009)
- Responding to California’s Current Drought (June 4, 2008)
- Responding to California’s Drought (February 20, 2009)
- Sacramento Bee Opinion Piece (November 16, 2009)
- Salmon in the Spotlight (March 31, 2010)
- Skin in the Game: A Lesson for Planning the Future of the Delta (August 11, 2009)
- Small Fry and Salmon Runs (October 20, 2009)
- So Who Would Pay for the Other 75 Percent? (December 1, 2009)
- Solar in the Central Valley – The Idea is Catching On (March 16, 2010)
- State Legal Strategy in the Delta Conflicts with State Legal Requirements (February 4, 2010)
- Stimulus for the Virtual River (February 17, 2009)
- Tapping Into California's Virtual River (May 30, 2008)
- The California Water Bills: How to Make the Delta More Like the Netherlands than New Orleans (August 14, 2009)
- The Delta, California Water Policy and the Legislative Art of Hostage Taking (August 19, 2009)
- The Future of the California Salmon Industry (February 1, 2010)
- The Governance Reform Bill - Stronger Protections for the Delta (November 10, 2009)
- The Growing Middle on California Water Legislation (October 28, 2009)
- The Human Story of California’s Salmon Fishing Closure (December 1, 2009)
- The Missing Piece in the Effort to Secure California’s Water Future – a Federal Climate Bill (May 14, 2010)
- The Once and Future Delta (February 2, 2009)
- The Rip Van Winkle of Water Projects - NAWAPA Remerges after a 50 Year Slumber (December 4, 2009)
- The Virtual River - Fueling California's Economic Growth with Water (February 3, 2009)
- The Water Package – New Solutions, not “Back to the Future.” (November 12, 2009)
- The Whole Enchilada - A Summary of the Water Bills (November 6, 2009)
- Time to Look Forward for Solutions on California Water Issues (March 26, 2010)
- Virtual River Is the One River in California that Is Growing (December 16, 2009)
- Water Economics 1 – Price Shapes Demand (May 4, 2010)
- Water Transfers: A Quiet Solution for California Farmers in Dry Times (January 27, 2010)
- Water and California's Climate Adaptation Strategy (December 4, 2009)
- What Does 15,000 cfs Look Like? – A Perspective from the Freeport Project (April 9, 2010)
- Why do some water users object to the state constitution? (October 28, 2009)
- World Water Day - California’s Embarrassment of Water Riches? (March 22, 2010)
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