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Some springtime reading on California water
Jay R. Lund, Director, Center for Watershed Sciences and the Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis California is a wonderful place to study water, with so...
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Wild Things and the Delta
Jay Lund, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Peter Moyle, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology University of California – Davis The recent death of Maurice Sendak,...
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Reconciling wild things with tamed places – a future for native fish species...
Peter Moyle, William Bennett, John Durand, William Fleenor, Jay Lund, Jeffrey Mount, University of California – Davis Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco Brian Gray,...
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California Water – The Great Remodeling Project
Jay R. Lund, Director, Center for Watershed Sciences, and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis People periodically remodel their homes. A household might need a new...
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Restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley
Jay Lund, the Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis In November, the people of San Francisco will vote on looking into alternatives to capturing water at...
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The California Drought of 2015: January
By Jay Lund The California Department of Water Resources does a great job assembling data that can give insights on water conditions during the ongoing drought. They update the information daily (which...
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The California Drought of 2015: March
By Jay Lund Droughts are strange, and this one is becoming scarier. February began with a nice few stormy days, but has since looked like this January – very dry. And so far, the March forecast is not...
View ArticleCan we talk? New nationwide flood maps provide opportunities for dialogue
by Kathleen Schaefer and Brett F. Sanders Why Dialogue Matters For fifty years, Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) have unintentionally stifled conversations of flood risk. They have encouraged...
View Article106 Years of Water Supply Reliability
by Jay Lund Water supply reliability is a major policy and management goal in California, and in the rest of the world, today and since the beginning of time. The goals of reliable water supplies have...
View ArticleDrought and the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, 2012–2016: Environmental Review...
by John R. Durand, Fabian Bombardelli, William E. Fleenor, Yumiko Henneberry, Jon Herman, Carson Jeffres, Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, Jay R. Lund, Robert Lusardi, Amber D. Manfree, Josué...
View ArticleSGMA and the Human Right to Water: How do submitted Groundwater...
by Kristin Dobbin, Darcy Bostic, Michael Kuo and Jessica Mendoza In 2012 California passed the Human Right to Water (AB 685) which declares all Californians have the right to safe, clean, affordable...
View ArticleOld Readings on California Water
by Jay Lund Today’s water struggles have deep roots. In our shared summer confinement, we hopefully have some time for some deeper reading on California water. Here is a small collection of older...
View ArticleHappy 2021! Here’s to a New Water Year!
by Jay Lund 2020 was terrible, and as a water year (WY), October 2019 – September 2020, it is over. A dry winter (drier than 2014-2015 in Sac. Valley), COVID-19, deep recession and unemployment,...
View ArticleThe Freezer of Horrors
by Miranda Bell-Tilcock, Jamie Sweeney, and Malte Willmes Down the dark corridors of the Watershed Sciences building are freezers of dead fish. Frozen Chinook Salmon carcasses and their dissected eyes...
View ArticlePlanning for a shorter rainy season and more frequent extreme storms in...
By Claire Kouba and J. Pablo Ortiz Partida California’s hydrologic future is muddled by a fundamental uncertainty: will the state get wetter or drier? Climate models disagree on this question, but...
View ArticleFunctional Flows Can Improve Environmental Water Management in California
By Ted Grantham, Jeanette Howard, Belize Lane, Rob Lusardi, Sam Sandoval-Solis, Eric Stein, Sarah Yarnell and Julie Zimmerman Over the past three years, a team of scientists from universities, NGOs,...
View ArticleIs California Heading for a Multi-Year Drought?
by Jay Lund Yes, California will have another multi-year drought. California has immense hydrologic variability, with more droughts and floods per average year than any other part of the country....
View ArticleCalifornia’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – a short history of big changes
by Jay Lund Deltas globally adjust with changes and fluctuations in external conditions, internal dynamics, and human management. This is a short history of big changes to California’s Sacramento-San...
View ArticleManaging Groundwater Overdraft – Combining Crop and Water Decisions (without...
by Yiqing “Gracie” Yao and Jay Lund California’s Central Valley produces much of the nation’s food, including about 40% of the country’s fruits and nuts and has the nation’s second most pumped aquifer...
View ArticleFebruary 1: Is California Still Heading for a Multi-Year Drought?
by Jay Lund, Peter Moyle, and Andrew Rypel This updates a post from December on the likelihood of California entering a second dry year. Normally, a second dry year brings drought operations for...
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