Colorado River

The Colorado River region of California is home to the Imperial Valley, the Coachella Valley, and the Palo Verde and Bard Valleys. This region is sometimes referred to as the “Winter Salad Bowl”, as the mild winters, good soil, and reliable water from the Colorado River allow a wide range of crops year-round, including grapes, dates, citrus, vegetables of all kinds, and numerous field crops as well as livestock. The Salton Sea is California’s largest inland lake and provides critical habitat for migratory birds in the Pacific Flyway.

A western United States snow reanalysis dataset over the Landsat era from water years 1985 to 2021

Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) | November 7th, 2022

Summary

Water stored in mountain snowpacks (i.e., snow water equivalent, SWE) represents an important but poorly characterized component of the terrestrial water cycle. The Weste

Achieving the Human Right to Water in California: An Assessment of the State's Community Water Systems

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) | January 15th, 2021

Summary

The Human Right to Water Framework and Data Tool (CalHRTW 1.0) provides a consolidated, stand-alone, quantitative assessment of baseline conditions in the quality, acces

Adaptability and adaptations of California’s water supply system to dry climate warming

Climactic Change (Springer) | November 27th, 2007

Summary

Economically optimal operational changes and adaptations for California’s water supply system are examined for a dry form of climate warming (GFDL CM2.1 A2) with year 2

Advances in Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Relevant to Water Management in the Western United States

American Meteorological Society (AMS) | July 21st, 2022

Summary

Water management in the semi-arid western United States (U.S.) is a challenging endeavor that evolves from year to year based on large-scale atmospheric and oceanic condi

Advancing Strategic Land Repurposing and Groundwater Sustainability in California

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) | March 26th, 2021

Summary

For decades, California has been on a steady trajectory toward water scarcity, which is now exacerbated by climate change. More frequent and intense droughts and incre

Agricultural Land Use in California

Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | June 25th, 2024

Summary

Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) | April 20th, 2020

Summary

Snowpack stores cold-season precipitation to meet warm-season water demand. Climate change threatens to disturb this balance by altering the fraction of precipita

An Assessment of Urban Water Demand Forecasts in California

Pacific Institute | August 5th, 2020

Summary

In California, urban per capita water demand has declined dramatically over the past several decades, driven in part by greater uptake of water-efficient devices. These r

An Evolutionary Theory of Administrative Law

Southern Methodist University | May 25th, 2018

Summary

Law evolves to accommodate change—this is axiomatic in most academic legal traditions. But in the era of the administrative state, with congressional gridlock and a jud

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