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Summary:
Summary of the historical foundations of today's water system, policies, and laws. Beginning with the Gold Rush, to water supply development, to the redistribution of water to recent decades of conflict between ecosystems and management.
Primary Reading:
- Chapter 1, pages 15-70
- The Ultimate California Water Cheat Sheet (Reading, 2014)
Primary Video:
- Jay Lund: Overview of CA Water System (25 min, 2014)
- How California's hydrology is different (36 sec., 2019), https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1113832087440609280
Additional Readings & Videos by topic:
Water Management History
- 1949 California Central Valley (Video, 10 min)
- Jay Lund: California Water Management in Southern CA (Video, 6 min, 2013)
- Jay Lund: California Water Management, Good and Bad Changes (Video, 9 min, 2013)
- California Water Atlas (Reading, 1979)
- California Water Myths (Reading, 2009)
- Bulletin 25 1930 California Water Plan (Reading)
- Kelley (1989), Battling the Inland Sea, UC Press (Reading, book)
- Donald Pisani: California Colloquium on Water (Video, 90 min, 2007)
- 2013 CA Water Plan Update (Reading)
Water Rights
- Virginia Cahill: California Water Rights (Video, 25 min, 2014)
- Brian Gray: A Regulator Perspective on Reconciliation Ecology (Video, 20 min, 2014)
- CA water myths - Water Rights (Reading, 2009)
- CA water rights allocations through time (Video, 30 sec, 2014)
- Norris Hundley, Jr., The Great Thirst, Californians and Water: A History, UC Press (Reading, 2001)
- Arthur L. Littleworth and Eric L. Garner (2nd ed. 2007), California Water II, Solano Press (Reading)
- Water Education Foundation, Layperson's Guide to Water Rights Law (Updated 2013)(Reading)
- Joseph Sax - Public Trust Doctrine in California (Video, 2007, 1.3 hours)
Ecosystem Impacts
- Global Dam Reoptimization Initiative (Video, 42 min, 2011)
- Peter Moyle: The Future of Freshwater Fish in California (Video, 24 min, 2014)
- Hetch-Hetchy Reclaimed, Sacramento Bee 10-Part Editorial Series. (Reading, 2004)
- Time to revisit economics of dam removal (Reading, 2014)
Keywords:
Water Rights, Riparian Rights, Appropriative Rights, Primary Rights, Secondary Rights, Conjunctive Use, Reclamation Act, Reasonable Use, Central Valley Project, State Water Project, CALFED, Water Policy