Report Priorities for California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Nov 14, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 ... The state continues to update water quality and flow standards for the Delta ... between flood protection and water supply during storms.
blog post A New Tool Could Help Protect 30% of the State’s Waters by 2030 By Sarah Bardeen Sep 12, 2022 Sep 12, 2022 ... California has set an ambitious goal of protecting 30% of the state's lands ... protections that are less stringent than this hard standard, ...
Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 They provide multiple benefits including water supply, hydropower, flood management, ... Many of these standards focus narrowly on protecting specific life ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 To protect and restore California's freshwater ecosystems and respond to the ... dams are essential for water supply, hydropower generation, and flood ...
Report Exploring the Potential for Water-Limited Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Caitlin Peterson, Cameron Pittelkow, Mark Lundy Jul 20, 2022 To explore the high and low end of water requirements based on ... to achieve the multiple benefits of flood protection, ease of movement for wildlife, ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Tracking Where Water Goes in a Changing Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta By Greg Gartrell, Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak May 16, 2022 Some outflow, referred to here as “system outflow,” is needed to repel seawater from the Delta at all times. · Regulations ensure additional outflow to protect ...
Report Groundwater and Urban Growth in the San Joaquin Valley By Andrew Ayres, Ellen Hanak, Henry McCann, David Mitchell ... Sep 15, 2021 They can also work to protect areas suitable for groundwater recharge from development. ... (21) New budget-based outdoor water efficiency standards under ...
Report Improving California’s Water Market By Andrew Ayres, Ellen Hanak, Brian Gray, Gokce Sencan ... Sep 14, 2021 We then review the requirements for establishing effective and responsible ... additional unclaimed flood flows to augment overall supplies (Hanak et al.
Fact Sheet Groundwater Recharge in California By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan, Ellen Hanak Aug 30, 2021 ... reducing flood risk, and storing water for droughts. Active recharge is a longstanding practice in much of urban Southern California and parts of the ...
Report Advancing Ecosystem Restoration with Smarter Permitting By Letitia Grenier, Stephanie Panlasigui, Crissy Pickett, Gokce Sencan Aug 16, 2021 Environmental regulations were designed to reduce or mitigate harm from ... improving flood control to reduce damage from levee overtopping caused by ...