by Verna Jigour | May 23, 2018 | Blog
Before getting into the “meat” of this post, I want to alert the reader to the Rainfall to Groundwater Executive Summary report now available for free download. California Department of Water Resources (DWR) deserves major compliments on their final Water Available...
by Verna Jigour | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
This is a longish post, but then I’m trying to encapsulate at least several millennia of human prehistory and history in California. The point is to characterize factors that cumulatively degraded detention storage functions in the nonnative annual rangelands...
by Verna Jigour | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog
Excerpt from 1908 statement by H. A. Jastro, President of the American National Live Stock Association: Residing in Kern county, in the State of California, where the entire flowage of the Kern river is applied to agricultural lands on what is known as the Kern River...
by Verna Jigour | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog
As some water agencies scramble to shore up their funding proposals for water storage, it seems timely to point out opportunities to expand existing reservoir capacities non-structurally, especially where watersheds encompassing reservoirs are dominated by nonnative...
by Verna Jigour | Jan 26, 2018 | Blog, Groundwater Recharge, Water Storage
Abundant 2016-17 season rainfall following punishing years of drought, had Californians yearning for and proposing investments in water storage – savings banks for less rainy days. Decisions on funding the anticipated typical (if “new and improved”) surface water...
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