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David Feldman quoted in “Can California’s massive rain solve its historic drought?”

JAN 9, 2023 | Washington Post
Across the world, drought plagued places are experimenting with storm water technology to take advantage of downpours. California’s climate swings between very wet and very dry conditions. Collecting storm … Continue Reading

The Governance of Water Innovations: To Quench a Thirst

2022 | Edward Elgar Publishing
David Lewis Feldman, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy and Design and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, US. Providing an extensive comparative and international study of water innovations and the issues that arise in their implementation, The Governance of Water Innovations analyses the technical, economic, health and environmental impacts of water innovations and their policy implications … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “Drought-stricken CA increasingly turning to desalination of ocean water”

NOV 28, 2022 | KCRW
The California Coastal Commission recently approved the construction of two more desalination plants, one near Monterrey, and one by Dana Point. This adds to the four already providing drinking water in the state. But in 2020, this same commission advised not to build the Monterey plant. What changed … Continue Reading

Drought drives renewed interest in desalination

NOV 7, 2022 | Los Angeles Times
Although desalination requires significant energy, California’s current extended drought has revived interest in the technology … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “‘There’s simply not enough water’: Colorado River cutbacks ripple across Arizona”

AUG 22, 2022 | AZCentral
Up and down the Colorado River last week, the state, local and tribal leaders in charge of water supplies for more than 40 million people waited to see if the federal government would impose deeper cuts to river allocations. The Bureau of Reclamation had given states and tribes an Aug. 15 deadline to find ways to conserve 2 to 4 million more acre-feet of water to stabilize the drought-stricken river and its two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Without such a plan, the bureau said, it would act … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “How to Save Water: 11 Tips for Reducing Water Consumption”

AUG 1, 2022 | Reader’s Digest
It wasn’t long ago that we were talking about the effects of climate change primarily in terms of what it meant for the Earth’s future. But that’s no longer a viable approach. If anything, given the evolution of our climate and weather patterns during the first two decades of the 21st century—with rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and once-a-century storms happening annually—thinking about the habitability of our planet and Earth-saving acts like water conservation solely as a future problem is downright dangerous. … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “Can Desalination Be a Solution for Drought in SoCal?”

JULY 22, 2022 | KCET
California is currently suffering through its worst drought in over 1,200 years, a fact painfully illustrated by a hot, dry summer, nearly empty reservoirs, and a historically diminished Colorado River. New water restrictions have gone into effect across the state. As California scrambles to conserve water, desalination plants, facilities that use reverse osmosis filters to purify seawater and transform it into drinking water, have increasingly become part of the discussion … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “To solve the water crisis, companies are increasingly turning to AI”

JULY 11, 2022 | Fortune
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is drying up: Withering under the Southwestern U.S.’s worst drought in 1,200 years, the lake is now only a third its usual size and threatening to fill the air in nearby Salt Lake City with alarming levels of arsenic. The risk, which a Republican state lawmaker in Utah recently called an “environmental nuclear bomb,” is just the kind of danger wrought by climate change that’s likely to discourage capital from flowing into the Southwest, costing private companies millions of dollars, said Matt Ellis … Continue Reading

David Feldman quoted in “Wild Rivers water park reopening in Irvine amid SoCal drought”

JUNE 14, 2022 | CBS Los Angeles
The opening of a new water park in Orange County has some residents excited, though others are wondering how much water the park will use amid a prolonged drought in Southern California. The giant wave pool, lazy river and slides at the new Wild Rivers in Irvine will be filled with thousands of gallons of water in the coming days … Continue reading

David Feldman quoted in “During drought conditions, some wonder: Is it wise to open a water park?”

JUNE 13, 2022 | OC Register
Amid a third year of drought conditions, the message to Californians remains: Conserve, conserve, conserve. So how wise, some wonder, is opening a water park like Wild Rivers in Irvine, at a time when residents are being asked to cut back on their daily water use and officials are cracking down on quenching “non-functional” turf statewide … Continue reading

David Feldman quoted in “California tackles water-energy interdependence by getting decision-makers to talk”

NOV 2021 | The Conversation
California tackles water-energy interdependence by getting decision-makers to talk How low can it go? The Hoover Dam in May. David Feldman, Author provided David Feldman, University of California, Irvine This article is part of The Conversation’s series on drought. You can read the rest of the series here. Across the western US, water and power … Continue reading

David Feldman quoted in “Turning ocean into drinking water: How it works, what it costs and is it safe?”

JAN 23, 2017 | OC Register
Here’s an idea: Let’s use the ocean to create an endless supply of pure water, no matter the amount of rain and snow that falls (or doesn’t) on California. If it sounds like something out of the future, consider: As of today, seven ocean desalination plants are under consideration along the coast from Dana Point … Continue reading

Andrew Hallak featured in “Joining forces”

NOV 16, 2016 | UCI News
Senior Andrew Hallak believes that concerns about environmental sustainability can unite people who typically don’t interact with each other, and as this year’s Dalai Lama Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, he hopes to build a bridge connecting them … Continue reading

Salton Sea water diversion could be catastrophic for public health

OCT 18, 2016 | The Sacramento Bee