Peter Gleick confessed to lying and stealing less than three weeks ago, but that didn't prevent him from delivering a keynote speech to
the California Water Policy Conference yesterday.
«I think the current drought opens the door to a real conversation about fundamental changes in
California water policy,» Gleick said.
Not exact matches
Through quarterly meetings and an annual conference that draws more than 500 education advocates, the
Water Cooler elevates the needs of
California's students to the forefront of
policy decisions.
The
Water Cooler improves and expands early care and education (ECE) and K - 12 education for
California's children by bringing together diverse stakeholders to build consensus for
policy solutions that support the needs of children from birth to 12th.
«
Water maybe has always been insufficiently available, but schools have a unique and special responsibility to create an environment that makes it easy for students to make good choices,» says Sharp of the
California Food
Policy Advocates.
«
Water fountains aren't providing adequate hydration,» says Matt Sharp, senior advocate of the
California Food
Policy Advocates.
Still,
California is increasingly adopting
policies that were not on the table previously — from so - called «toilet - to - tap»
water to mandatory statewide
water restrictions.
The Australian model could be useful for
California because Australia recently emerged from a decade - long drought, during which it pioneered
water policies that attracted interest from
water - scarce countries around the world.
Water markets are not a stand - alone solution to California's crisis — there are some problems water markets can not solve, and so state leaders will need to develop other policies for these challe
Water markets are not a stand - alone solution to
California's crisis — there are some problems
water markets can not solve, and so state leaders will need to develop other policies for these challe
water markets can not solve, and so state leaders will need to develop other
policies for these challenges.
According to a 2013 study of
California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in
water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental
policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.
«
California is often the trendsetter when it comes to both
water and energy efficiency, and hopefully, other states will follow
California's lead,» said Tracy Quinn,
water policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The
Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cut
Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy describes as «a survival
policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking
water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cut
water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover Dam stop operating and
California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's
water, are completely cut
water, are completely cut off.
Another possibility is that the recovery of seal and sea lion populations off the coast of
California, thanks again to successful marine protection
policies, are giving the sharks more reason to stay in these
waters.
«
Water quality is of great concern to
California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal
Policy Advisor at
California's Department of
Water Resources.
California testing the
waters with bill aimed at pet insurance
policies.
Policy Bob Wilkinson, professor and
water director at University of
California's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, believes the key to capturing energy and
water savings lies in a simple measurement: the energy intensity of
water.
Meanwhile, Southern
California almost burns up, Atlanta doesn't have
water, the snowpack in
California is non-existent leading to
water wars for the rest of this decade at least, and the United States has no coherent energy
policy whatsover.
Gleick testified that Pacific Institute work on urban and agricultural
water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter
water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and
policies can reduce state demand for
water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter
water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the
California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter
Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of
water in the shorter
water in the shorter term.
Will
California and FERC upgrade and update their dam peak flow capabilities, emergency dam management flow
policies, and energy and
water management, to fully account for the much higher probability of Hurst «climate persistence»?
Oroville is an apt metaphor and symbol for
California government that continues to be in denial about its dysfunctional
water and energy infrastructure
policies and priorities... Failure to fix the designed weaknesses of the spillways surely was «penny wise but pound foolish» given the enormity of the consequences of failure.
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A much more radical view is taken by Prof Mark Jacobson from Stanford University and Mark Delucchi from the University of
California Davies, who recently produced two papers for the journal Energy
Policy, expanding upon their article» 100 % wind,
water, and solar power for the world», published in Scientific American in November 2009.
Stories about
water issues in
California and the American West, including coverage of energy, climate change, agriculture, innovation,
water policy and rights.
PRI is based out of
California, and has been involved in the
water policy debate in that state.
In the hopes that
California's warring
water warriors open their minds to
policy reform, here are some of the issues that should be on the table now, in what could be the worst drought in
California's modern history.
Such analysis is also more informative, but should I go as far as offering the results to the
water managers in Southern
California so they can think about future needs and
policies for
water resource management?
Numerous studies, including one by a team from the University of
California — Berkeley's Goldman School of Public
Policy, forecast an increasingly violent struggle in an already tense region over
water as these stresses increase.
A flood insurance
policy in
California can pay for damage to your property or home and personal property damaged by flood
water.