Reference Materials
The Water Plan draws from and builds on reference documents related to water resources to enhance the content and produce a better plan with each succeeding update. We have compiled reference materials used in the preparation of Water Plan updates in addition to cited resources in each document.
Update 2013 — Reference Guide
Update 2013's Reference Guide includes over 150 reference articles related to and used in the preparation of Update 2013, as well as a glossary of terms used throughout the other volumes. The articles are divided into the following subject categories for easy indexing.
Note that these articles contain the views of the authors, and do not necessary reflect the views of the Department of Water Resources.
- A Look Back at Past California Water Plans
- List of State Companion Plans
- Process Guide: California Water Plan Update 2013
- Progress Report 2009
- Related Actions and Performance Measures for California Water Plan's Objectives
- Testimony of Mark Cowin at Little Hoover Commission
- Water Allocation, Use and Regulation in California
- Water Plan Update 2013 Glossary
- Work Teams and Acknowledgments
- Accounting For Climate Change
- Adapting California's Water Management to Climate Change
- California Climate Adaptation Planning Guide
- California's Climate Adaption Water Strategy: An Analysis of Implications for Individual and Community Rights and Responsibilities
- California Climate Science and Data for Water Resources Management
- Climate Action Team: Third Climate Change Assessment
- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California's Water
- Climate Change and Integrated Regional Water Management in California: A Preliminary Assessment of Regional Approaches
- Climate Change and Water
- Climate Change Characterization and Analysis in California Water Resources Planning Studies
- Connecting the Dots between Water, Energy, Food, and Ecosystems Issues for Integrated Water Management in a Changing Climate
- Estimating Historical California Precipitation Phase Trends Using Gridded Precipitation, Precipitation Phase, and Elevation Data
- Guidelines for Considering Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Climate Change Initiatives
- Indicators of Climate Change in California
- Perspectives and Guidance for Climate Change Analysis
- Preparing for New Risks: Addressing Climate Change in California’s Urban Water Management Plans
- Regional Governance of Flood Management in the Central Valley: An Analysis of the Integrated Regional Water Management and Regional Flood Management Planning Processes
- Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future
- Safeguarding California: Reducing Climate Risk: An Update to the 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy
- The State of Climate Change Science for Water Resources Operations, Planning, and Management
- Advanced Canopy Atmosphere Simulation Algorithm (ACASA)
- Calculating California Cropping Patterns in 2050
- Calculation and Simulation of Evaporation of Applied Water
- California Simulation of Evaporation of Applied Water and Agricultural Energy Use in California
- Central Valley Crop Classification Processing Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies
- CUP Plus (Consumptive Use Program Plus) Model
- Definition of Ag and Urban Applied Water Use
- Delta Evapotranspiration of Applied Water (DETAW)
- Evaporation Research - A Review and Interpretation
- Evapotranspiration and Relative Contribution by the Soil and the Plant
- Evapotranspiration from a Satellite-Based Surface Energy Balance for the Snake Plain Aquifer in Idaho
- Limits to the Productivity of Water in Crop Production
- Managing Deficit Irrigation
- Model for Estimating Evaporation and Transpiration from Row Crops
- National Weather Service Reference Evapotranspiration Forecast
- Satellite Imagery Can Support Water Planning in the Central Valley
- Simulation of Evapotranspiration of Applied Water (SC- SIMETAW)
- SIMETAW II
- Spatial Analysis of Application Efficiencies in Irrigation for the State of California
- Surface Renewal
- Survey of Irrigation Methods in California in 2010
- The Promise of Regulated Deficit Irrigation in California's Orchards and Vineyards
- Historical Estimates of Agricultural and Wetland Water Use in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta
- Accounting for Risk
- Evaluating Response Packages for the California Water Plan Update 2013, Plan of Study
- Integrated Scenario Analysis for the 2009 California Water Plan Update
- Policy Questions for the California Water Plan Needing Quantitative Information
- Robust Water Management Strategies for the California Central Valley
- Scenarios of Future California Water Demand Through 2050: Growth and Climate Change
- California Drought Contingency Plan (2010)
- Comparing Changes in Applied Water Use and the Real Gross Value of Output for California Agriculture: 1967 to 2010: A Look at the Rising Economic Efficiency of California Agricultural Water Use (working draft)
- Comparing Changes in Applied Water Use (spreadsheet)
- 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report
- California Energy Balance Update and Decomposition Analysis for the Industry and Building Sectors
- Energy Nexus Illustration
- Total Statewide Energy Use
- A Fresh Perspective for Managing Water in California: Insights from Applying the European Water Framework Directive to the Russian River
- Applying the Public Trust Doctrine to River Protection
- Burning Down to the Village
- Considering Water Use Efficiency for the Environmental Sector
- Cultural Burn
- Improving Managed Environmental Water Use: Shasta River Flow and Temperature Modeling
- Flow Recommendations to the State Water Resources Control Board
- Managed Environmental Water Use Efficiency - Evidence in Practice
- Native American Use of Fire (and its Effects on Water)
- The Economic Value of Nature's Services and its Role in Integrated Water Management: Four Case Studies
- Assembly Bill 685
- Environmental Justice in California Government
- General Plan Guidelines Chapter 2: Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice
- The Human Right to Water Bill in California
- Guidance on General Plan Amendments for Addressing Flood Risk
- Implementing California Flood Legislation into Local Land Use Planning: A Handbook for Local Communities
- AB 3030 (1992)
- AB-1739 Groundwater Management
- AB-359 Groundwater Management Plans
- ACWA Recommendations for Achieving Groundwater Sustainability
- Association of California Water Agencies Report: Sustainability from the Ground Up: A Framework for Groundwater Management in California
- Bulletin 118 - Update 2003
- California's Groundwater Problems and Prospects
- California's Groundwater Update 2013
- CASGEM Groundwater Basin Prioritization Brochure
- CASGEM Groundwater Basin Prioritization Process
- Central Coast Groundwater: Seawater Intrusion and Other Issues
- GRA Contemporary Groundwater Issues Council Recommendations
- Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California
- Land Subsidence, Groundwater Levels, and Geology in the Coachella Valley, California, 1993-2010
- Managing California's Water From Conflict to Reconciliation
- Public Update for Drought Response Groundwater Basins with Potential Water Shortages and Gaps in Groundwater Monitoring
- Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management: Developed Through a Stakeholder Dialogue
- SB-1168 (Pavley) and AB 1739 (Dickinson) Sustainable Groundwater Management
- SB-1168 Groundwater Management
- SB-1938 Groundwater Management: State Funding
- SBX7-6 Groundwater
- State Water Boards Groundwater Workplan
- Uncommon Innovation: Developments in Groundwater Management Planning in California
- Water Action Plan: Improving Groundwater Management - GRA Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management
- California River Indices
- Major Floods Since 1950
- CALFED Bay Delta Surface Storage Investigations Progress Report
- Integrating Water and Land Management Summary Guide
- Integrating Water and Land Management: A Suburban Case Study and Locally Adaptable Tool
- Integrating Water and Land Management: Land Use Calculator (spreadsheet)
- NRDC - How Greening California Cities Can Address Water Resources and Climate Challenges in the 21st Century
- 20x2020 Water Conservation Plan
- Urban Landscape Evapotranspiration
- Vegetative Assessment in an Urban Environment
- Collaborative Versus Technocratic Policymaking: California's Statewide Water Plan
- California Governor's Water Action Plan
- Financing Strategies and Guidelines for Funding Water Resource Projects
- Finding Water for Growth: New Sources, New Tools, New Challenges
- Future Food Production and Consumption in California Under Alternative Scenarios
- Strategic Planning Guidelines
- Water for Growth: California's New Frontier
- Achieving a Sustainable California Water Future through Innovations in Science and Technology
- Executive Summary: Achieving a Sustainable California Water Future through Innovations in Science and Technology
- A Time for Changing Values, Ideas and Solutions in Water Management: Addressing Sustainability of California's Communities
- Business Case for Water Footprint in California
- California Water Sustainability Indicators Framework: Assessment at State and Region Scales - Final Report
- Examples of Managing for Sustainability
- The California Water Sustainability Indicators Framework - Final Report
- Trends and Variation in California's Water Footprint
- Water Footprint Business Case - Brochure
- 2013 California Tribal Water Summit Proceedings
- An Introduction to Indian Nations in the United States
- California Indian Culture Areas, Unratified Treaty Lands & State of California County Boundaries
- DWR Director Mark Cowin Letter to Tribal Chairperson and Council Members
- Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians
- Executive Order B-10-11
- Native American People Treaties, Ratified and Unratified
- Tribal Advisory Committee: Letter to State Senate
- Tribal Collaboration in IRWM: Challenges, Solutions and Recommendations
- Tribal Communication Plan
- Tribal-Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Addressing Nitrate in California's Drinking Water with a Focus on Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley Groundwater - UC Davis Report for SWRCB
- Agreements and Legislative Recommendations: Final Report to the Governor's Office - Governor's Drinking Water Stakeholder Group
- California Nonpoint Source Encyclopedia - Tera Tech, Inc Report for SWRCB
- Californians Without Safe Water and Sanitation
- Communities that Rely on a Contaminated Groundwater Source for Drinking Water - SWRCB Report to the Legislature
- Data Collection and Management for Local and State Small Water Systems - Governor's Drinking Water Stakeholder Group
- Recommendations Addressing Nitrate in Groundwater - SWRCB Report to the Legislature
- Recycled Water Use by Hydrologic Region
- Report on New and Expanded Funding Sources to Address the Needs of Disadvantaged Communities in Unincorporated Areas that Do Not Have Safe Drinking Water - Governor's Drinking Water Stakeholder Group
- Small Community Wastewater Strategy - SWRCB
- Small Water System Program Plan - SWRCB
- Statewide Summary of Community Water Systems
- California Water Rights
- Indian Reserved Water Rights Under the Winters Doctrine: An Overview
- Flexibility in the California Water Rights System
- The Water Rights Process
- Water Rights: Issues and Perspectives
Update 2009 — Reference Guide
Update 2009's Reference Guide includes over 120 reference articles related to and used in the preparation of Update 2009, as well as a glossary of terms used throughout the other volumes. The articles are divided into the following subject categories for easy indexing.
Note that these articles contain the views of the authors, and do not necessary reflect the views of the Department of Water Resources.
- A Look Back at Past California Water Plans
- Process Guide: California Water Plan Update 2009
- List of State Companion Plans
- Progress toward Implementation of Update 2005 Recommendations
- Testimony of Mark Cowin at Little Hoover Commission
- Water Allocation, Use and Regulation in California
- Water Chronology, WEF, 2008
- Water Plan Update 2009 Glossary
- 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy
- Accounting For Climate Change
- Adapting California's Water Management to Climate Change
- California's Climate Adaption Water Strategy: An Analysis of Implications for Individual and Community Rights and Responsibilities
- Climate Action Team: Biennial Report
- Climate Change and California Water Resources: A Survey and Summary of the Literature
- Climate Change and Water
- Climate Change Scenarios and Sea Level Rise Estimates
- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California's Water
- Internalizing Climate Change - Scientific Resource Management and the Climate Change Challenges
- IRWM Climate Change Document Clearing House
- Overview of Climate-Change Scenarios being Analyzed (and provided) by the California Climate Action Team
- Population Projections for California Climate Change Scenarios
- The Future is Now (Summary)
- The Future is Now: An Update on Climate Change Science Impacts and Response Options for CA
- The State of Climate Change Science for Water Resources Operations, Planning, and Management
- USGS Circular 1331
- Using Future Climate Change Projections
- WETCAT IPA - Implementing a Public Goods Charge for Water
- Advanced Canopy Atmosphere Simulation Algorithm (ACASA), University of California, Davis
- Calculating California Cropping Patterns in 2050
- Central Valley Crop Classification Processing Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies
- CUP Plus (Consumptive Use Program Plus) Model
- Definition of Ag and Urban Applied Water Use
- Delta Evapotranspiration of Applied Water (DETAW)
- Evaporation Research - A Review and Interpretation
- Evapotranspiration and Relative Contribution by the Soil and the Plant
- Evapotranspiration from a Satellite-Based Surface Energy Balance for the Snake Plain Aquifer in Idaho
- Limits to the Productivity of Water in Crop Production
- Model for Estimating Evaporation and Transpiration from Row Crops
- National Weather Service Reference Evapotranspiration Forecast
- Satellite Imagery Can Support Water Planning in the Central Valley
- Simulation of Evapotranspiration of Applied Water (SC- SIMETAW)
- SIMETAW (Simulation of Evapotranspiration of Applied Water)
- SIMETAW II
- Surface Renewal
- The Promise of Regulated Deficit Irrigation in California's Orchards and Vineyards
- Historical Estimates of Agricultural and Wetland Water Use in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta
- A Strategic Analysis Framework for Managing Water in California
- Economic Modeling of Agriculture and Water in California
- Future Quantitative Analysis for California Water Planning
- Improving Analytical Procedures Used to Describe Future Water Conditions for the California Water Plan
- Integrated Scenario Analysis for the 2009 California Water Plan Update
- Overview: Shared Vision Planning Workshop
- Recommended Next Steps for Improving Quantitative Information for the California Water Plan
- Regional and Statewide Water Management Responses to an Uncertain Future
- Revised Work Plan for Near Term Quantitative Support
- Status Report on Preliminary Operations Simulations to Assess the Effects of Water Resources Challenges and Management Responses
- Survey of Irrigation Methods in California in 2001
- Technical Notes to Survey of Irrigation Methods in California in 2001
- Water Management Lessons for California
- Our Vision for ''The California Delta"
- Context Memorandum Summary Report, January 2008, A Support Document (Staff Report)
- Foundation Concepts and Some Initial Activities to Restore Ecosystem Functions to the California Delta First Draft
- Glossary of Delta and Suisun Initiatives (Oct 2008)
- To: John Kirlin, Exec Dir, Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force Subject: Delta Levees and Ecosystem Function
- Comparing Changes in Applied Water Use (Working Draft)
- Comparing Changes in Applied Water Use (spreadsheet)
- A Fresh Perspective for Managing Water in California: Insights from Applying the European Water Framework Directive to the Russian River
- Applying the Public Trust Doctrine to River Protection
- Considering Water Use Efficiency for the Environmental Sector
- Improving Managed Environmental Water Use: Shasta River Flow and Temperature Modeling
- Flow Recommendations to the State Water Resources Control Board
- Managed Environmental Water Use Efficiency - Evidence in Practice
- Recommendations Regarding Scenarios and Application of Environmental Water "Demands" in the State Water Plan Update & Quantification of Unmet Environmental Objectives in State Water Plan 2003 Using Actual Flow Data for 1998, 2000, and 2001
- Addressing California's Uncertain Water Future by Coordinating Long-Term Land Use and Water Planning: Is a Water Element in the General Plan the Next Step?
- Collaborative Versus Technocratic Policymaking: California's Statewide Water Plan
- Financing Strategies and Guidelines for Funding Water Resource Projects
- Finding Water for Growth: New Sources, New Tools, New Challenges
- Future Food Production and Consumption in California Under Alternative Scenarios
- Strategic Planning Guidelines
- Water for Growth: California's New Frontier
- Draft Statistical Compendium to Populate the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Indicator Framework as of Feb 5, 2008
- ACWA Environmental and Economic Sustainability Policy Principles
- Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Indicator Framework
- Sustainability Watergroup Memo
- Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable, March 2010 Report
- A Time for Changing Values, Ideas and Solutions in Water Management: Addressing Sustainability of California's Communities
Update 2005 and Older - Reference Documents
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