Category: Solutions
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Flood risks: Preparing for urban floods with an eye toward equity
Flood waters from the San Francisquito Creek reached apartment complexes in East Palo Alto, California, during a storm event on Dec. 31, 2022. | Courtesy of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Plans for flood mitigation along urban rivers often benefit some neighborhoods more than others. Researchers and collaborators in a densely populated California floodplain developed…
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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers $520 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure and Strengthen Drought Resilience
Funding will be provided to 57 projects across six regions to increase drought resilience and improve water delivery systems, advance Biden-Harris administrations’ National Climate Resilience Framework Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis today announced more than $520 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding will…
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Lower Basin Colorado River consumptive use is lowest in 40 years
Average Colorado River consumptive use for the Lower Basin states has been steadily decreasing over the past decade. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has released the 2023 Colorado River Accounting and Water Use Report, which states the most recent Colorado River consumptive use volumes for Arizona, California and Nevada. Congratulations to the water users in Arizona,…
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Meet the underwater gardeners that scrub Imperial County’s water canals
Photo: IID Operations Coordinator Pablo Cortez, left, holds an adult grass carp while Tony Perez, a colleague, collects the fish’s eggs during spawning season at the Imperial Irrigation District’s grass carp hatchery in El Centro in Imperial County on May 7, 2024. As summer approaches, the Imperial Irrigation District is gearing up for another battle…
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Colorado to shield thousands of acres of wetlands, miles of streams after U.S. Supreme Court left them vulnerable
The Blanca Wildlife Habitat Area, located in the San Luis Valley, is about 15 square miles in area. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America) Thousands of acres of Colorado wetlands and miles of streams, left unprotected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year, would be shielded under a hard-won measure that…
