blog post Addressing Groundwater Overdraft in the Sacramento Valley By Spencer Cole, Kyle Greenspan, Andrew Ayres Dec 11, 2023 As the Sacramento Valley seeks to bring its groundwater basins into balance under SGMA, the valley’s groundwater sustainability agencies recently submitted plans to manage overdraft. Do the numbers add up? Our researchers take a look.
blog post Remaking the Salton Sea By Lori Pottinger Apr 6, 2017 California’s largest lake faces a water crisis. A new state plan seeks to address urgent environmental and public health problems.
blog post A Water Budget for the Environment By Jeffrey Mount Nov 5, 2018 California’s freshwater ecosystems are in decline and becoming increasingly vulnerable to drought. Allocating water budgets for the environment would help.
blog post Testimony: Using Cap & Trade Revenues to Bolster Climate Policy By Ellen Hanak Feb 18, 2014 I’d like to focus my remarks on ways to think about achieving multiple benefits from the use of cap and trade auction revenues.
blog post The Troubled History—and Uncertain Future—of the Salton Sea By Sarah Bardeen Nov 22, 2022 Southern California’s hundred-year-old Salton Sea is drying up, and that’s creating a host of problems, as both wildlife and air quality in the region suffer. We sat down with an expert—UC Riverside professor and PPIC Water Policy Center adjunct fellow Kurt Schwabe—to discuss the issues facing the sea and explore potential solutions.
