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October 21, 2020

Professor Holly Doremus is a leading scholar and teacher in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and law...

Groundwater/Aquifer Remediation

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

October 17, 2020

Cleaning up polluted groundwater basins can create additional water supply that would not otherwise be available without remediation, but treatment...

Agricultural water use efficiency

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Agriculture Notebook News and Features

October 17, 2020

As the state’s largest water using sector, many look to agriculture as a way to free up water supplies for...

Conjunctive management and groundwater

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

October 17, 2020

With the right infrastructure in place, water districts and agencies can manage surface water and groundwater as a single source,...

Precipitation enhancement (Cloud seeding)

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Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

Cloud seeding, practiced in California since the 1950s, is estimated to add 400,000 acre-feet per year to the state’s precipitation. ...

Desalination

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Reports Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

Desalination holds the potential of providing a highly reliable water source for some communities; however, there are major cost and...

System reoperation

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Notebook News and Features Water project operations

October 17, 2020

Changing existing operations and management procedures for water project operations, referred to as system reoperation, can yield numerous benefits such...

Water transfers

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Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

Water transfers can be an effective tool for water managers to provide flexibility in the allocation and use of water...

Recycled Water

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Notebook News and Features Reports Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

While recycled water reuse has been steadily increasing in California since 1970, a task force in 2003 found that water...

Surface Storage

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Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

Surface storage offers a mixed bag of benefits and impacts. On the one hand, dams can provide water storage, flood...

Drinking water treatment and distribution

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

October 17, 2020

Drinking water treatment is among the most important public health achievements of the 20th century. However, agencies responsible for drinking...

Stormwater capture and management

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Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

October 17, 2020

Stormwater, traditionally thought of as a flood management problem, is getting attention as a resource with the potential to increase...

Ecosystem restoration

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Ecosystems Reports

October 17, 2020

Restoring ecosystems can have multiple benefits, such as recovering endangered and threatened species, increasing water supply reliability, and adapting to...