Climate Action Plan Phase 1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan Update 2023

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | March 22nd, 2024

Summary

DWR developed the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan Update 2023 (Update 2023) to review its GHG reductions since Update 2020 and to update strategies for further re

Climate Change and Water Supply Security: Reconfiguring Groundwater Management to Reduce Drought Vulnerability

California Energy Commission (CEC) | July 31st, 2012

Summary

Periodic droughts, projected to become more frequent and severe with climate change, present a significant planning challenge for California’s water agencies. This r

Climate Change Effects on the High-Elevation Hydropower System with Consideration of Warming Impacts on Electricity Demand and Pricing

California Energy Commission (CEC) | July 31st, 2012

Summary

While only about 30 percent of California’s usable water storage capacity lies at higher elevations, high-elevation hydropower units generate, on average, 74 percent of

Climate change impacts on water resources and hydropower potential in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier) | April 23rd, 2015

Summary

Precipitation projections from climate models vary up to 16%; flow projections revealed greater differences, up to 50%. The climate models projected increase in t

Connecting the dots between water, energy, food, and ecosystems issues for Integrated Water Management in a changing climate

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | March 7th, 2017

Summary

Global climate change creates critical challenges through increasing temperature, reducing snowpack, and changing precipitation for water, energy, and food, as well as fo

Curbing the Colorado

Scientific American | April 1st, 1922

Summary

Already, the electrical engineer has shown how the snows of the high Sierras can be transformed into energizing current distributable for hundreds of miles through a S

Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California—Hydrogeologic framework and transient ground-water flow model

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | July 1st, 2010

Summary

A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient groundwater flow model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Ener

Desalination Plant Entrainment Impacts and Mitigation

California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | October 9th, 2013

Summary

Raw seawater is used for a variety of purposes, including as source water for desalination plants and to cool coastal power plants. Raw seawater is, however, not just col

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