OWP Water Seminar Series

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Please check here for information on our upcoming seminars. Our popular water seminars are held in Spring and Fall. You can see a list of past seminars and watch recordings of these seminars on this page. We will have more information posted on the upcoming seminar shortly.

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Past Seminars

April 2025
The Future of Water: Will it be there for us?

March 2025
Undamming the Klamath

December 2024
Overview of the State Water Project

October 2024
California Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting

March 2024
Safe Drinking Water for Disadvantaged Communities

October 2023
Major Improvements to the Sacramento River Flood Control Project

June 2023
Capturing and Managing Large Storms and Wet Winters in California—Prospects and Limitations

March 2023
Colorado River Basin Governance, Decision Making, and Alternative Approaches

December 2022
Storm water quality following urban burning: What was learned from the 2018 Camp Fire and other recent destructive fires?

October 2022
Looking Back and Forward: A Water Year 2022 Review and Expectations for Water Year 2023

May 2022
Harvest Water Project: Increasing Water Supply Reliability and Ecological Resiliency through Collaboration

April 2022
American River Basin Study

November 2021
Funding water supply protection through conservation finance in the Yuba River watershed

October 2021
The Sacramento Regional Water Bank

April 2021
Water Seminar Explores Sustainable Solutions to Drinking Water Challenges

March 2021
The Sites Resevoir Project

November 2020
The Water Policy of Managed Wetlands in the Central Valley

October 2020
Flood-MAR: Harnessing Flood Waters for Aquifer Replenishment

November 2019
Oroville Spillways Recovery Project Overview

September 2019
Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley

April 2019
2019 to 2020 Priorities a State Water Board Member Persepective

March 2019
Responding to Climate Change with Multi-Benefit Projects

September 2018
Thirsty for Justice: The Struggle for the Human Right to Water in California and Beyond

November 2017
American River Temperature Management

October 2017
American River Salmon Restoration

April 2017
US Army Corps of Engineers Emergency Response: Water and Wastewater Operations

March 2017
Folsom Dam: Flood Operations Update

November 2016
Municipal Finance of Water Projects

September 2016
Direct Potable Reuse

April 2016
Drought, El Nino and California’s Climate Variability in the Face of Change

March 2016
California Water: A Historical Perspective

November 2015
Sacramento’s Flood Risk Reduction Efforts (1989 to the Present and Beyond)

May 2015
The EchoWater Project: Unprecedented Wastewater Infrastructure Investment for Sacramento

October 2015
Tastes Great...Less Filling: The Sacramento Area Response to California’s Historic Drought

April 2015
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act