Water Forum members on July 28, 2022, confirmed the Business Strategy (2022-2030) that describes priorities and provides an overall guide for the organization’s operations for the next eight years. The strategy discusses how the Water Forum will implement core programs for habitat…
Here at the Water Forum, we are deeply saddened by the recent news that Jonas Minton has passed away. Our first full-time executive director, Jonas was a vital guiding hand in our work and left a huge imprint on many…
Insights from Water Forum Alum Sarah Foley In 2018 the California Legislature passed new efficiency standards aimed at reducing water consumption in the urban sector. The new law (passed as SB 606/AB 1668) came in response to the state’s difficult…
May is National Bike Month. Established in 1956 and promoted by the League of American Bicyclists, National Bike Month is a chance to showcase the many benefits of bicycling—and encourage people to give biking a try. To celebrate, we asked several Water…
The Water Forum is using fish ear bones to learn insight into how different water release patterns and wetter vs. dryer years affect survival of different cohorts of juvenile salmonids. Ear bones, you ask? Yes, ear bones. Specifically, the bones…
Saturday, April 23, 20228 a.m. breakfast, 9 a.m. clean-upRiver Bend Park at 2300 Rod Beaudry Drive, Sacramento 95827 Join your Water Forum colleagues as we fuel up and then head out to cleanup the American River Parkway on Saturday, April 23,…
By Erica Bishop Habitat naturalization works, and we have Cordova Creek to show for it. The creek in Rancho Cordova actually didn’t have a name, as far as we know, until the 1960s. That’s when it was lined with concrete…
By Jessica Law California has just concluded the driest January-February period in recorded history. The March 1 survey of the Sierra Nevada snowpack, key to water supplies across much of the state, reflects the trend as well, showing the snow…
Water Caucus Educational background Bachelor of Civil Engineering, University of Nevada Reno, with an emphasis on Environmental Engineering Professional experience I started at the Spink Corporation doing water system modeling for six years. I was hired by Sacramento County to work…
Business Caucus Educational background I grew up in a Navy family in Germany. There, I graduated with my “Abitur” after 13th grade. (Back then, Germany had an additional year of high schooling compared to the traditional school system in the United States). For…
