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Truly a Watershed Event: California’s Water Board Proposes Base Flows for the San Joaquin River Tributaries

By Svend Holst on October 11, 2016 in Article

In 1878, John Wesley Powell, the first director of the United States Geological Survey, published his Report on the Lands in the Arid Regions of the United States. In his Arid Lands Report, Powell foresaw the essential role that water would play in the development of the American west and the challenges faced in managing watersheds that included not only mainstem rivers but networks of tributaries that contributed water to mainstem rivers.

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