Administrative definitions of groundwater are creating loopholes for sustainable groundwater management and increasing contamination risk from oil and gas.
Read MoreNature for Water
Environmental water needs often dominate the dialogue on water and the environment, but there is increasing recognition of the benefits nature can provide humans to meet sustainably.
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California's Ninja Strategy to Fight Drought
Groundwater recharge and storage (a.k.a. Managed Aquifer Recharge) is more ninja than you think -giving local water agencies the agility, flexibility, and even cost effectiveness they need to fight off drought. This blog post highlights the recent findings from our paper titled "Benefits and Economic Costs of Managed Aquifer Recharge in California" which was published in the open-source peer-reviewed journal San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science last week. You'll read about how managed aquifer recharge is 5 times cheaper than other water storage strategies and can be used to convert flood risk into a resource. Hi-yah!
Read MoreThe race for $2.7 billion: setting the competition guidelines for water storage
Research by Water in the West indicates that that groundwater storage is one of the more cost-effective ways to deliver public benefits and provide long-term reliability to California’s water infrastructure. Although surface water storage still has an important role in California, the California Water Commission should not set up an application process that does not take full advantage of the public and economic benefits of groundwater storage.
Read MoreDroughts, Dissemination, and Decision-making
There are no silver-bullet solutions for combating water stress, but there are ways that we can offer a more centralized source for disseminating best management practices and decision-support tools that can help guide local decisions to move in the right direction.
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