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Priorities for California’s Water: Are We Ready for Climate Change?

J. Letitia Grenier, Jeffrey Mount, Sarah Bardeen, Ellen Hanak, Bradley Franklin, Kyle Greenspan, Spencer Cole, Brian Gray, Gokce Sencan | November 12th, 2024


California faces many immediate challenges around water management, but as the record-breaking heat of 2024 makes clear, temperatures are rising—and Californians are contending with the consequences. In a PPIC poll earlier this year, residents named climate change, forest fires and wildfires, and water supply and drought as the most important environmental issues facing the state. 

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climate change, drought, water supply