Author: Mike
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Impacts of California’s Drought Mandate
María Pérez-Urdiales, postdoctoral scholar at the School of Public Policy at UC Riverside Water UCI Colloquium Series: Impacts of California’s Drought Mandate In her talk she discussed the differential impacts of California’s drought using a sample of nine urban water districts in state.
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Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM
Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water…
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Water UCI Colloquium Series: Remediation, Regulation, Reform – What we’re doing about PFAS in our water
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Remediation, Regulation, Reform: What we’re doing about PFAS in our water Click here to view the event recording.
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Water Colloquium Series: Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s)
Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water economics and policy.
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California tackles water-energy interdependence by getting decision-makers to talk
How low can it go? The Hoover Dam in May. David Feldman, Author provided David Feldman, University of California, Irvine This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here. Across the western US, water and power are linked. Hydropower provides about 21% of the region’s electricity. Nearly 20% of California’s electricity is…
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Turning ocean into drinking water: How it works, what it costs and is it safe?
Full article here: https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/23/turning-ocean-into-drinking-water-how-it-works-what-it-costs-and-is-it-safe/
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Salton Sea water diversion could be catastrophic for public health
Full article: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article108100717.html
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Growing the Desert
Growing the Desert The cover of February 1950 issue of Desert Magazine is a telling departure from previous covers that depict Native Americans, natural desert vistas or plant life. The Hoover Dam looms large as the first “modern” man made structure to adorn the cover of the publications. (Figure 1) Into the 1950s more depictions of Anglo…