Tag: sustainability
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Sustainable Water Investment Summit Takeaways: Water Rights, Scarcity and Opportunities
Last week, leaders from a range of industries convened for two days in Los Angeles for Brownstein and WestWater’s inaugural Sustainable Water Investment Summit. The summit featured Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles and current infrastructure advisor for the state of California. Tasked by Gov. Gavin Newsom to collaborate across local, state and federal…
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Seaweed farms & historic deal to protect the seas
Photo: Julie Robinson is the director of the Nature Conservancy’s Belize Program in Punta Gorda, Belize. Credit: Meridith Kohut In Belize, seaweed is a lifeline. In this picture, I’m holding a chunk of Eucheuma isiforme, a seaweed harvested from an underwater farm in the Turneffe Atoll, about 40 kilometres off the coast. As a little…
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Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainability, and Farmed Fish
As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government intervention is the solution. Indeed, it might be one of the main drivers of overfishing and other conservation and sustainability issues stemming from commercial fishing. Much like drone fishing, there are…
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Feds say Tule groundwater could continue to sink
Despite groundwater sustainability plans, Bureau of Reclamation says capacity of Friant-Kern Canal could fall by another 10% in the coming years; impact could be felt by rural communities as well TULARE COUNTY – Without the construction of the 152-mile Friant-Kern Canal in 1951 at the cost of $61 million, many of the best producing ag…
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Sinking Lands, Damaged Infrastructure: Will Better Groundwater Management End Subsidence?
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, work continues on managing groundwater for long-term sustainability, as required by California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). In January, water users in 21 critically overdrafted basins delivered their groundwater sustainability plans to the state Department of Water Resources. In this series , we examine the 36 plans…
