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Freshwater
PPIC Report Finds Reforms Would Improve the Way California Allocates Water
Discusses a new report co-authored by Woods Co-Director and Senior Fellow Buzz Thompson and Leon Szeptycki, Woods professor of the practice and executive director of the Water in the West program.
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To Save Water, an Underground Movement to Bank El Niño's Rainfall
Cites a brief by Water in the West researchers which found that the $2.7 billion in Prop 1 funding for water storage could provide six times more storage capacity if spent on groundwater recharge projects than on construction of new dams and reservoirs.
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Californians Take Drought Lessons From Down Under
Quotes Rebecca Nelson, Non-resident Fellow, Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Program at Water in the West, on how Australia handled an nine-year drought.
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Stanford Project Maps Underground Water -- Aimed At Taking the Guesswork Out of Well Drilling
Profiles research by Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Rosemary Knight on her work mapping underground water in California's Central Valley.
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Race to Abate Arundo in Salinas River is Slow-Paced
Leon Szeptycki, Woods professor of the practice and executive director of the Water in the West program, discusses the concept of privately owning part of a river.
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Is Freshwater Supply More Dependent on Good Governance Than Geography?
Discusses findings of study co-authored by Woods Senior Fellows Steven Gorelick (Earth System Science), Barton Thompson (Law) and Scott Fendorf (Earth System Science)
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VIDEO: Fresno, California, Aims to Recharge its Dwindling Groundwater
Tara Moran, Program Lead of Sustainable Groundwater at Water in the West, discusses the repercussions of drought on groundwater in Fresno, California.
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China's Sponge Cities: Soaking Up Water to Reduce Flood Risks
Senior Fellow Dick Luthy (engineering) states that "sponge cities" are a new way of thinking about stormwater, not as a problem but as an opportunity and a resource to augment our water supply.
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Drought survival: What Australia’s Changes Can Teach California
Rebecca Nelson, a non-resident fellow at Water in the West, states that the sweeping changes needed to help Australia survive their 13-year drought were accepted because there was an understanding that it was for the public interest.
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Here Comes the Sea: The Struggle to Keep the Ocean out of California’s Coastal Aquifers
Profiles research by Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Rosemary Knight on saltwater intrusion into underground freshwater aquifers.
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A Wet Winter Won’t Save California
Op-ed by Senior Fellows Chris Field (Biology, Earth System Science) and Noah Diffenbaugh (Earth System Science) calling for the incorporation of climate-related risks in planning for California’s future.
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Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years
Senior Woods Fellow Noah Diffenbaugh states that the new findings contribute to the evidence that global warming has substantially increased the probability of extremely low snow conditions.
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Less Water Might Be Plenty for California, Experts Say, and Conservation is Only the Start
Quotes Newsha Ajami, director of urban water policy at Water in the West, on the substantial "soft paths" California can take to save water while reducing environmental impacts and saving money.
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Water Management’s High-Tech Future
Interview with Newsha Ajami, director of urban water policy at Water in the West, about some of the advances she’s seeing around the state, and what a "next-gen water system” might look like.
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Signs of a Historic El Niño, but Forecasters Remain Wary
Stanford doctoral student Daniel Swain (Environmental Earth System Science), a 2013 Rising Environmental Leadership Program fellow, states that while El Niño has potential to bring a lot of water to California, it doesn't necessarily mean snow.
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Concrete Oasis: Why Las Vegas Has Coped Well With Drought So Far
Woods Co-Director and Senior Fellow Buzz Thompson states that Nevada has such a low allocation of the Colorado river because no one expected the city to be what it is today.
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A Once-Flourishing Pima Cotton Industry Withers in an Arid California
Quotes Tara Moran, Program Lead of Sustainable Groundwater at Water in the West, about how the San Joaquin Valley’s two groundwater basins are probably the most over-drafted in the state.
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Shallow Fracking Wells May Threaten Aquifers
Covers study led by Senior Fellow Robert Jackson (Environmental Earth System Science) which found that several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing operations for oil and natural gas production in the U.S. pose a potentially significant risk of contaminating drinking water sources.
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