Sentences with phrase «department of water resources»

Ron also enjoys serving the community as a Planning Commissioner for the County of Kern and on a statewide committee with the California Department of Water Resources responsible for updating the California Water Plan.

California Department of Water Resources, California Water Plan Update 2013, Public Advisory Committee, Member

His practice includes bond, disclosure, issuer's and underwriter's counsel work for tax - exempt and taxable financings, including transactions for the State of California, the California Department of Water Resources, the California State Public Works Board and 501 (c)(3) organizations (with a primary focus on health care financings).

Obtained a jury verdict in favor of Sempra Generation on all counts following a four - week jury trial in a case challenging Sempra's $ 6.6 billion energy supply contract with the California Department of Water Resources.

Engineers from the California Department of Water Resources hope that a combination of releasing 800,000 acre feet of water from the lake will be enough to prevent another Oroville Dam flood.

Employed by the Department of Water Resources for the government of The Gambia, he was one of the IPCC's most senior personnel.

The California Department of Water Resources, and their federal partners, the Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers, are undertaking an overhaul of water management in the basin.

Our Department of Water Resources has already documented a significant shrinking in the annual snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is the source of two thirds of our developed drinking and agricultural water in the state, and a trend which they said that by 2050, we'd lose about two thirds of our snow pack.

Photo: California Department of Water Resources

Then dry water years struck from 2007 — 2009 — the first time in California's history that statewide declarations of emergency were issued for drought, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

On the upside, increased rainfall this winter enabled California's Department of Water Resources to announce in April that it is boosting water delivery to meet 60 percent of requests through the 2016 calendar year — up from 20 percent last year and 5 percent in 2014.

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(Kelly M. Grow / California Department of Water Resources)

The California Department of Water Resources hopes to learn from how Cape Town, South Africa, copes with running out of water in the next 90 days.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

«The governor said, «I want the Department of Water Resources to build a coal plant,»» said Ron Robie, Director of the Department of Water Resources, a branch of the state Resources Agency.

The 118 m (387 ft) earth and rock dam was built by the California Department of Water Resources and was completed in 1973.

«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.

«Most importantly, our findings also showed a steep rise in the simultaneous occurrence of multiple drought types,» said lead author Deepthi Rajsekhar, a former postdoctoral scholar in Gorelick's lab now working at the California Department of Water Resources.

In 1980, the state passed what amounted to a landmark groundwater act requiring its Department of Water Resources to identify where groundwater was being depleted the fastest and to set limits on how much water could be pumped there.

Thomas Buschatzke, the director of Arizona's Department of Water Resources, puts it as emphatically as any scientist.

Fewer than half the state's water districts ever complied, and only 17 percent of the state's groundwater area has ever been examined, the state's Department of Water Resources recently reported.

Year after year, as the rivers and streams have dwindled, the state's Department of Water Resources, which requires permits, has continued to issue them, allowing new groundwater wells, and not counting their withdrawals as part of a single system.

In the end, said Rich Juricich, an engineer with the California Department of Water Resources, it may mean that some places run short of the water they need.

In 2014, Arizona's Department of Water Resources issued a plan for sustaining the state's water supply into the future.

The study considered data from 1,766 sites in the western U.S., mostly from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service and the California Department of Water Resources.

California's water supply levels were bolstered in March but still sit below normal, after several late winter storms increased snowpack and reservoir levels, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

At the time, the California Department of Water Resources reported that the dam itself was safe and did not pose a threat to downstream populations.

It's uncontrolled,» Department of Water Resources spokesman Chris Orrock said when asked how much water could be released should the spillway fail.

Not exact matches

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.

«They're designed to hold a lot of water while the dredging is going on,» said Mike McGarry, who oversees dredging projects for Brevard County Natural Resources Management Department.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Murray - Darling Basin Authority, New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and Victorian Environmental Water Holder, 2013

Consultation on the 2017 — 18 plan has occurred with South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (including the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board), New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Victorian Catchment Management Authorities, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Water New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individWater and Natural Resources (including the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board), New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Victorian Catchment Management Authorities, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Water New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individWater Holder, Victorian Catchment Management Authorities, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Water New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individWater New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individwater use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individWater Advisory Group and various community groups and individuals.

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is responsible for the assessment of the Basin states» progress against these milestones.

Australia's largest organic certification agency, Australian Organic, has branded the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources» proposal for the mandatory fungicide spraying of some imported crop seeds as a threat to jobs, growth and investment.

This is a summary of the efforts of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, working in partnership with the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources in protecting and restoring the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth.

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The Australian livestock export industry is regulated by the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR).

The watering events were implemented with the assistance of the Raukkan Community Council, the Ngarrindjeri community, Mannum Aboriginal Community Association Incorporated, Nildottie Progress Association, the Australian Landscape Trust, the Pike River Land Management Group, private landholders, Landcare Groups, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

This watering action will be managed in collaboration with the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources South Australia, SA Water and the Murray Darling Basin Authority.

The Water Holder entered into an agreement with the South Australian Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources to provide100 GL of Commonwealth environmental water between January and March Water Holder entered into an agreement with the South Australian Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources to provide100 GL of Commonwealth environmental water between January and March Water and Natural Resources to provide100 GL of Commonwealth environmental water between January and March water between January and March 2016.

These watering actions will be managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

These watering actions were managed in cooperation with the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales Office of Water, Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Mallee Catchment Management Authority, the Murray - Darling Basin Authority, SA Water and the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

The watering events were implemented with the assistance of the Raukkan Community Council, the Ngarrandjeri community, the Australian Landscape Trust, the Pike River Land Management Group, private landholders, Local Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

Information regarding the characteristics of entitlements and the water resource plan held in the Lachlan catchment please refer to New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Wwater resource plan held in the Lachlan catchment please refer to New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - WaterWater.

This watering action will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

The watering events were implemented with the assistance of the Raukkan Community Council, the Ngarrandjeri community, Mannum Aboriginal Community Association Incorporated, Nildottie Progress Association, the Australian Landscape Trust, the Pike River Land Management Group, private landholders, Local Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources.