Tag: 2017
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Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities Click here to view the event recording. The use of desalinated ocean water to supplement Southern California’s limited water supply is an often- contentious proposal. Water UCI invited leaders in desalination technology and policy to discuss both the challenges and…
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply Click here to view the event recording. Hydraulic fracturing is a process used to increase the rate at which fossil fuels can be recovered from natural reservoirs. This water-dependent practice has implications for California’s water supply in both the short and long term. Water…
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Water Infrastructure: California’s Aging Lifeline
Fred J. Adjarian, Director of El Toro Water District Water UCI Colloquium Series: Water Infrastructure: California’s Aging Lifeline Click here to view event photos.
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The Local Water Transition for California Cities
Dr. David Sedlak is a Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Co-Director of the Berkeley Water Center, and Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). Water UCI Colloquium Series: The Local Water Transition for California Cities Click here to view the event recording. California’s…
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InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in the Central Valley, California from 2007-2017
Tom G Farr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Water UCI Colloquium Series: InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in the Central Valley, California from 2007-2017 Click here to view the event recording. Subsidence caused by groundwater pumping in the rich agricultural area of California’s Central Valley has been a problem for decades. Over the last few years, interferometric synthetic…
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Water Security in a changing climate
Roger Bales, Professor of Engineering and Founding Professor of Engineering at UC Merced Water UCI Colloquium Series: Water Security in a changing climate Click here to view event photos.
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Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation Property Rights and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation Property Rights and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States Click here to view the event recording. Click here to view the event recording.