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The Confluence is the blog of the California Institute for Water Resources (CIWR) within University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. We cover timely topics of water management in California, highlight innovative research and voices.

CIWR's mission is to integrate California's research, extension, and education programs to develop research-based solutions to water resource challenges. We do this by facilitating collaborative research and outreach on water issues across California's academic institutions and with international, federal, state, regional, nonprofit, and campus communities.

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Jean Fried of UC Irvine presenting the rationale and the expected outcome of the workshop. Photo by Mimi Cruz.

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A California-European Union workshop on sustainable groundwater management and conflict resolution

July 22nd, 2019

A California-European Union workshop on sustainable groundwater management and conflict resolution was held June 24-25, 2019 at the University of California, Irvine.

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Tashiana Osborne on the Scripps Pier. Photo by Jeff Dillon.

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Researching California’s extreme weather, storm-by-storm

July 15th, 2019

Tashiana Osborne is a PhD student with the Scripps Institution for Oceanography at UC San Diego where she works within the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes on atmospheric river research.

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Isaya Kisekka explains to students how the small footprint cosmic ray measures soil water over a range of scales at the UC Davis research farm.

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What does the future hold for irrigation management?

June 10th, 2019

Climate variability, competition for water from other users including urban and environmental, and groundwater depletion threaten the sustainability of irrigated agriculture.

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Irrigation specialist receives new investigator award to help farmers better apply water

June 3rd, 2019

Amir Haghverdi, an assistant cooperative extension specialist of irrigation and water management in the environmental sciences department at UC Riverside and California Institute for Water Resources affiliate, has been awarded a nearly $500,000 Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investiga...

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Ghost pines, live oaks, black oaks, and madrones, among other trees, make their stand interspersed with annual and perennial grasses at the headwaters of a California watershed. Photo by David Lewis.

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Headwaters

April 15th, 2019

By David J Lewis

I am standing where stream flow begins, in a nameless tributary of the Russian River to the east of Hopland, California. This particular spot and location has been a grazing livestock ranch, primarily sheep, going back more than 100 years.

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The Confluence

A California-European Union workshop on sustainable groundwater management and conflict resolution

Researching California’s extreme weather, storm-by-storm

What does the future hold for irrigation management?

Irrigation specialist receives new investigator award to help farmers better apply water

Headwaters

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