Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 California's freshwater ecosystems—its lakes, rivers, floodplains, meadows, ... manage supply during seasonal dry periods and frequent, multi-year droughts.
Fact Sheet Groundwater Recharge in California By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan, Ellen Hanak Aug 30, 2021 Climate change is bringing warmer temperatures, reduced snowpack (which historically held a third of seasonal water storage), more volatile precipitation, ...
blog post Why Is the Delta Starving? By Sarah Bardeen Aug 9, 2021 Aug 9, 2021 ... ... marshes were inundated during high-flow years and high-flow seasons. ... have other targets for non-tidal marsh and floodplain habitat.
blog post Making End-of-Life Decisions on Aging Dams By Lori Pottinger Nov 9, 2020 Nov 9, 2020 ... Can we deliver critical features of the seasonal flow regime to ... settlement—it had massive lakes and floodplain wetland complexes.
blog post Setting Aside Environmental Water for the San Joaquin River By Jeffrey Mount, Ted Grantham, Brian Gray, Ellen Hanak Oct 26, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 ... Using functional flows—which mimic the seasonal components of river flow ... and on floodplains—will make more effective use of this water.
blog post Commentary: New Approach Needed to Protect Health of California’s Rivers By Ted Grantham, Jeffrey Mount Sep 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 ... Restoring seasonal flows to rivers can help. ... channel restoration, and floodplain reconnection projects—to restore critical interactions ...
blog post Video: Making the Most of Water for the Environment By Lori Pottinger Sep 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 ... ... restore seasonal components of river flow to sustain ecosystem health. ... “This includes the river bank, channel, and floodplain that ...
Report Making the Most of Water for the Environment: A Functional Flows Approach for California’s Rivers By Ted Grantham, Jeffrey Mount, Sarah Yarnell, Eric D. Stein Aug 24, 2020 Restoring seasonal components of river flow is key to sustaining the biological, ... altered river flows and degraded river channels and their floodplains.
Fact Sheet Climate Change and California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Daniel Swain, Paul Ullrich Sep 4, 2019 Expanding the use of natural floodplains to capture and manage flood flows in ... Climate change will affect temperatures, snowpack, and seasonal and yearly ...
Fact Sheet California’s Water Grid By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount Sep 4, 2019 ... shrinking snowpack, shorter and more intense wet seasons, more frequent ... Increasing the use of natural infrastructure such as restored floodplains ...