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Employment Impacts for Bay Delta Water Conveyance Tunnel

September 2011

The Brattle Group looks at how many jobs would be created during the construction of a new Delta tunnel.

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Merk Berkman, David Sunding & Michelle Tran
The Brattle Group

Delta Smelt Life-Cycle Study

July 2011

“A state–space multistage life cycle model to evaluate population impacts in the presence of density dependence: illustrated with application to delta smelt”.

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Mark N. Maunder & Richard B. Deriso
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation

February 2011

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Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Ariel Dinar, Brian Gray, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount, Peter Moyle, and Barton "Buzz” Thompson
Public Policy Institute of California

New Research Links Decline of Endangered California Delta Smelt to Nutrient Pollution

May 2010

“Long-term changes in nutrient loading and stoichiometry and their relationships with changes in the food web and dominant pelagic fish species in the San Francisco Estuary, California”

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Dr. Patricia Glibert
Reviews in Fisheries Science

California Water Myths

December 2009

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Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Ariel Dinar, Brian Gray, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount, Peter Moyle, and Barton "Buzz” Thompson
Public Policy Institute of California

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Founded in 1960, the Mojave Water Agency service area encompasses approximately 4,900 square miles of the High Desert in San Bernardino County. The State Water Project provides a critical source of water for the Mojave Water Agency and its customers.

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Delta Disrupted

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The heart of California’s water system and the largest estuary on the West Coast—the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta—is highly vulnerable. Environmental concerns are mounting. Water supplies are at risk. The U.S. Geological Survey has warned of a 63 percent probability that a 6.7 magnitude or larger earthquake will hit in the next 30 years....

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