Water in California: Additional Resources

Guide to support Quantitative Assignment #2

Selected Resources (news, reports, blogs)

“California’s water house of cards" Los Angeles Times
"Guarding groundwater - New state laws will put an end to pump-as-you-please policy for users of underground aquifers, affecting many farmers, ranchers on North Coast" (The Press Democrat)
"Drought plays out differently in various regions of California" (The Daily Democrat) 4 Oct. 2014
"If You Think the Water Crisis Can't Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained" (National Geographic) 19 Aug. 2014
Groundwater reform more important than water bond (California Waterblog) 27 Aug. 2014
"Understanding California’s Groundwater" (Water in the West: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment)
series with various articles
“USGS Estimates vast amounts of water used in California” (The Desert Sun)
“Coping with California’s Water Future Will Require a Sea Change in Perspective” (Huffington Post)
by Jay Famiglietti, Professor of Earth System Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
“Experts: Thinning Forests Could Help Increase Ground Water Supply” CBS Sacramento 4 Oct. 2014
refers to UC Merced researchers
“California Faces New Water Shortages, and Trees are to Blame” takepart 2 Sept. 2014
refers to UC Merced researchers
Drought by the Numbers: Where Does California Water Go? (KCET Los Angeles)
Summary of The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply: Efficiency, Reuse, and Stormwater (Pacific Institute and National Resource Defense Council) 2014
Full Report
West’s historic drought stokes fears of water crisis (Washington Post) 8 Aug. 2014
refers to how much water is being removed from California's underground reserves
Daily water allocation could be the next California drought strategy (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Water and the California Economy - Report, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) May 2012
estimate on the expenditures in California for water management (p. 4)
30 page report
Paying for Water in California – Report, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) March 2014
more about funding and water bonds, 80 page report
“2014 Drought: Ongoing Dry Conditions Puts California in Uncharted Territory” (May 2014)

Public Policy of California (PPIC)

All PPIC publications on various subjects
PPIC's aims to produce quality, non-partisan research in order to improve California's public policy

How Much Water Storage Does California Have Left?

Selected Resources - Conservation

Considering Water Use Efficiency for the Environmental Sector
36 page report, UC Berkeley for the California Department of Water Resource, Statewide Water Planning Branch
Note the focus on the Environmental Sector
USEPA Water Conservation Plan Guidelines: Information for States
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
audience = states
See pg. 18 Part I for "Conservation Measures"
Drought Management Databases (National Drought Mitigation Center)
*search for information on strategies used to prepared for and respond to drought conditions
*click on Full Search to get started
Most promising strategies for ensuring adequate water supplies (graph from survey, July 2012)
from Statista database
Adequate water supplies surveys – most promising technologies (graph from survey, July 2012)
from Statista database

Water in California: Additional Resources

Selected Resources (news, reports, blogs)

Public Policy of California (PPIC)

How Much Water Storage Does California Have Left?

Suggested Readings

Selected Resources - Conservation