In 2017, a nationwide assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey found that brackish groundwater in the nation’s aquifers is more than 800 times the amount currently used yearly. California’s Coastal Basin and Central Valley aquifers contain close to 7 billion...
As policymakers consider updates to the Bay-Delta Plan, a Stanford analysis outlines challenges and strategies to support future water security in the San Francisco Bay Area in the face of climate change. By Rob Jordan, Stanford News California’s challenge to...
Visit the Water Shelf main page In this episode, I talk with eminent scholars Drs. Manuel Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke, and David Switzer about their recent book of immense importance to the water industry entitled The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking...
Total water savings through conservation will not drop below current levels until 2035 From the Conserve 4 CA Coalition: Earlier today, water experts and environmental justice advocates provided a briefing to analyze the impacts of the State Water Board’s just-released...
By UC Merced University of California researchers from the USDA-funded Secure Water Future project recently found that increases in crop water demand explain half of the cumulative deficits of the agricultural water balance since 1980, exacerbating water reliance on depleting...
