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KCBX News Update: Water Use Experts Share Conservation Tips

Calmatters: Newsom Imposes New California Water Restrictions — Leaves Details to Locals

Newsom Imposes New California Water Restrictions — Leaves Details to Locals

Californians Didn’t Meet Their Water Conservation Target — Is a Mandate Next?

Letters to the Editor: The Drought Will Never Be Over. These Are the Changes California Must Make.

California Slashes State Water Project Allocation as Year Begins With Record Dryness

California Slashes State Water Project Allocations As Year Begins With Record Dryness

Calmatters: Californians Used More Water as State Braces for Another Dry Year

As Drought Deepens, Californians are Saving Less Water

Californians Used More Water as State Braces for Another Dry Year

Snow Falling: As Climate Warms, Overhauling California Water Projections Gains Urgency

Snow Falling: As Climate Warms, Overhauling California Water Projections Gains Urgency

Los Angeles Is Building a Future Where Water Won’t Run Out

California’s Drought Reckoning Could Offer Lessons for the West

Researchers Optimistic About New Housing Despite California Drought

With Another Dry Year Looming, California Moves to Set New Urban Water Use Standards

In November, amid the deepening drought, the DWR and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) issued joint recommendations to the California State Legislature for new indoor residential water use standards, along with a study supporting the recommendations (hereafter the Indoor Residential Water Use Study, or IRWUS).  

Californians Have A Lot of Ideas For How to Get More Water. Most of Them Are Really Bad.

California, Arizona and Nevada Agree to Take Less Water From Ailing Colorado River

California’s Major Reservoirs Are Still Far Drier Than Average

Op-Ed: Does the Bay Area Have the Water It Needs to Grow?

It seems as though the two things the Bay Area has the least of are housing and water. The region has a shortfall of 699,000 housing units, which has driven housing costs to astronomical heights, and pushed 35,000 of our neighbors into temporary housing or onto the streets. Our colleagues at San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR),a public policy think tank, have found that the region needs to build an astonishing 2.2 million homes by 2070 to meet future demand and make up for the present shortfall.

Pacific Institute Launches Water Resilience Issue Brief, Calls on Decision-makers to Rapidly Scale Water Resilience Solutions in Build-Up to COP26 

Never before have the global water and climate agendas been so closely linked. More than 30 years ago, the Pacific Institute made some of the earliest projections about how climate change would wreak havoc on the water cycle. Today, we see many of these impacts before our very eyes. Amid climate change, intensifying floods and droughts have affected people, nature, and economies.

Water Resilience

The world is facing a global water crisis marked by growing competition for freshwater resources, rapidly deteriorating water quality, poor and declining ecosystem health, unprecedented biodiversity loss, and a failure to meet basic water and sanitation needs.

California’s Drought Emergency Puts the State’s Vulnerable Communities at Risk — Again

Freshwater Scarcity

The availability and use of fresh water are critical for human health and for economic and ecosystem stability. But the growing mismatch between human demands and natural freshwater availability is contributing to water scarcity, affecting industrial and agricultural production and a wide range of social, economic, and political problems, including poverty, deterioration of ecosystem health, and violent conflicts.

Water for a Growing Bay Area: How the Region Can Grow Without Increasing Water Demand

The San Francisco Bay Area is projected to add two million jobs by 2070, attracting millions more people. To prevent housing from becoming even more unaffordable, the region needs to build 2.2 million new housing units.