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Briefing: The Untapped Potential of California’s Urban Water Supply

In this briefing, Pacific Institute experts provided a deep dive into the untapped potential of California's alternative water supplies: urban water efficiency, water reuse, and stormwater capture.

Presentation: The Untapped Potential of California’s Urban Water Supply

In this presentation, Pacific Institute experts provided a deep dive into the untapped potential of California's alternative water supplies: urban water efficiency, water reuse, and stormwater capture...

Opinion: The Good News in California’s Growing Water Crisis

Study Details How to Reduce Urban Water Use for Potential Drought Relief Throughout CA

Study Details How to Reduce Urban Water Use for Potential Drought Relief Throughout CA

Innovative urban water strategies offer vast opportunity for California drought relief and longer-term water resilience

Throughout California, innovative urban water strategies—water efficiency, water reuse, and stormwater capture—are already finding success in many communities. These cost-effective and technologically feasible strategies reduce urban water use (currently 6.6 million acre-feet per year), while boosting local water supplies...

The Untapped Potential of California’s Urban Water Supply: Water Efficiency, Water Reuse, and Stormwater Capture

Persistent challenges and severe drought have shone a spotlight on the vulnerability of California’s water systems. They also offer an opportunity to rethink the state’s water supplies and strategies for the 21st century and beyond. 

Pacific Institute Study Finds Dramatic Potential for California Drought Relief Through Innovative Urban Water Approaches

April 12, 2022, Oakland, California – Today, as California faces its third year of severe drought, the Pacific Institute released new research quantifying dramatic opportunities for innovative urban water strategies to provide drought relief and longer-term water resilience.

Running on Empty: Is California Doing Enough on Drought?

California Could Shrink Water Use in Cities by 30% or More, Study Finds

Californians Urged to Save Water as State Faces Dismal Snowpack in Sierra Nevada

Californians Urged to Save Water as State Faces Dismal Snowpack in Sierra Nevada

Snowpack Report Signals Bad News for California’s Drought

Snowpack Report Underscores Need for Transformative Changes to Address Record-Setting California Drought

April 1st marks the end of the wet season in California. It’s also the day the California Department of Water Resources announces key seasonal snowpack measurements and makes projections of water availability for the rest of the water year. Today, the news is extremely bad and is a call to action to do much more — and to do some things much differently.

State’s Snowpack at Only 38% of Average As California Drought Deepens

S.F.’s Hydropower Supply is Under Threat

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

World Water Day Focuses Attention on How Water is Underappreciated — Especially Groundwater

Around the world, people and nature rely on groundwater for survival. The newly released United Nations World Water Development Report 2022 underscores humanity’s reliance on this resource, noting groundwater currently provides about half the volume of domestic water and a quarter the volume of irrigation water withdrawn globally.

March 2022 Newsletter

The monthly newsletter features the Pacific Institute’s research, publications, news about past and upcoming Institute staff outreach efforts, and media coverage of its work and analysis.

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

In Russia’s War in Ukraine, Both Sides Have Attacked Water Supplies

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