Sustainable Water: Challenges and Solutions from California

✍ Scribed by Allison Lassiter (editor)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe. Struggling with the most significant drought in its recorded history, California faces all of these challenges to secure reliable water supplies for the future. The unfolding story of California water includes warnings and solutions for any region seeking to manage water among the pressures of a dynamic society and environment.

Written by leading policy makers, lawyers, economists, hydrologists, ecologists, engineers, and planners, Sustainable Water reaches across disciplines to address problems and solutions for the sustainable use of water in urban areas. The solutions and ideas put forward in this book integrate water management strategies to increase resilience in a changing world.

Contributors: John T. Andrew, Carolina Balazs, Celeste Cantú, Juliet Christian-Smith, Matthew Deitch, Caitlin Dyckman, Howard Foster, Julian Fulton, Peter Gleick, Brian E. Gray, Ellen Hanak, Maurice Hall, Michael Hanemann, Sasha Harris-Lovett, Matthew Heberger, G. Mathias Kondolf, Jay Lund, Damian Park, Kristen Podolak, John Radke, Isha Ray, David Sedlak, Fraser Shilling, Daniel Wendell, Robert Wilkinson, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Sarah Yarnell

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Adapting California’s Water Sector to a Changing Climate
Chapter 2. The Water–Energy–Climate Nexus in California
Chapter 3. California’s Flawed Surface Water Rights
Chapter 4. The Reasonable Use Doctrine in California Water Law and Policy
Chapter 5. Urban Water Demand and Pricing in a Changing Climate
Chapter 6. Coping with Delta Floods and Protecting California’s Water Supply in a Regional Flood Management System
Chapter 7. Portfolio Approaches to Reduce Costs and Improve Reliability of Water Supplies
Chapter 8. The Challenge of Sustainable Groundwater Management in California
Chapter 9. People, Resources, and Policy in Integrated Water Resource Management
Chapter 10. The History of Water Reuse in California
Chapter 11. Water Justice in California’s Central Valley
Chapter 12. The Incendiary Mix of Salmon and Water in Mediterranean-Climate California
Chapter 13. Adaptive Management in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Relicensing
Chapter 14. Emerging Cultural Waterscapes in California Cities Connect Rain to Taps and Drains to Gardens
Chapter 15. California’s Water Footprint Is Too Big for Its Pipes
Afterword. A Soft Path for California Water
Index