press release Deteriorating And Deadlocked… The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Is A California Disaster-In-Waiting Feb 7, 2007
Fact Sheet Floods in California By Jeffrey Mount, Gokce Sencan, Letitia Grenier Feb 28, 2024 More than seven million Californians—one in five residents—live in areas at risk of flooding, and risks are growing. Improved land use planning, insurance, and innovative flood management can help.
blog post Acting Locally to Address Sea Level Rise By Brett Sanders Nov 2, 2016 Climate change is bringing rising seas and more extreme storms. A new program helps coastal communities plan for a greater risk of coastal erosion and flooding.
press release Golden State of Mind: California Less Worried About Terror Attacks Than Rest of Nation Dec 5, 2002
blog post The Toll of the San Joaquin Valley Floods: “It’s Not Pretty” By Sarah Bardeen Apr 26, 2023 Lois Henry is the engine behind the small but mighty two-person journalistic operation that is SJV Water, an independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to covering water in the San Joaquin Valley. We asked her about the flooding she’s seen so far this year—and what might happen as the weather heats up.
blog post Providing Safe Drinking Water in the Face of Disasters: Lessons from Lake County By Jelena Jezdimirovic Dec 18, 2019 Small, rural communities with ongoing drinking water challenges are especially vulnerable to greater extremes brought on by a warming climate. We interviewed Jan Coppinger of Lake County Special Districts about how local water agencies have dealt with a string of natural disasters.
blog post Could Wildfires Affect the 2020 Census? By Sarah Bohn, Tess Thorman Sep 19, 2018 Among their many devastating long-term effects, disasters may elevate the risk of undercounting some communities in the upcoming census.
blog post Flood Prevention 101: Stay Out of the Floodplain By Lori Pottinger Jan 4, 2018 What did the catastrophic hurricane season of 2017 tell us about managing flood risk? An interview with flood expert Nicholas Pinter.
