Category: Solutions
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Karrigan’ Börk’s Award-Winning Water Rights Solution
The Colorado River supplies water to seven U.S. states for more than 35 million people and irrigates more than 5 million acres of crops. (Getty) Law Professor Wins Morrison Prize for Most Impactful Sustainability-Related Legal Paper in North America Karrigan Börk, UC Davis professor of law and Associate Director at the Center for Watershed Sciences,…
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Cocopah Tribe: habitat restoration along the Colorado River to address climate change
Map: Tribe will restore areas along the Colorado River to address climate change. The Cocopah Tribe will work on riparian areas with money from several federal sources and private funders. The Cocopah Tribe and two other Arizona tribal communities are working with new money and tools to address climate change after receiving grants from the…
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Groups call out conservation as equitable, affordable and the most reliable option for meeting the state’s demand for water in light of the West’s unpredictable water future
PRESS RELEASE: More than 100 non-profit organizations and other water advocates have signed on to a statement that urges California leaders to lean into conservation as the first line of defense against future droughts and unreliable precipitation patterns in this era of climate change. Supporters of the statement range from environmental justice groups, including Clean Water Action,…
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Pacific Fishery Management Council considering closures to protect deep-sea habitats
MBARI’s ROV, Ventana being deployed at the proposed restoration and research site, Sur Ridge. (Brian Phan – Herald Correspondent) Deep-sea coral restoration and research sites are being proposed to protect deep-sea habitats from bottom fishing gear in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. “Throughout the world, we’ve been damaging deep-sea corals even before people really even…
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Groundwater Crisis: The Need for New Data to Inform Public Policy
It is far from preposterous to suggest that the fate of the human race is inextricably linked to the fate of the Earth’s groundwaters. How much groundwater exists and exactly where is it located? How do extreme weather events and climate change impact groundwater resources? In this Effective Policy Learning piece, first published in the journal Harvard Data Science…
