Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water…Continue Reading Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Remediation, Regulation, Reform – What we’re doing about PFAS in our water
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Remediation, Regulation, Reform: What we’re doing about PFAS in our water Click here to view the event recording. …Continue Reading Water UCI Colloquium Series: Remediation, Regulation, Reform – What we’re doing about PFAS in our water
Water Colloquium Series: Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s)
Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water economics and policy….Continue Reading Water Colloquium Series: Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s)
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 are linked. Hydropower provides about 21% of the region’s electricity. Nearly 20% of California’s electricity is…Continue Reading California tackles water-energy interdependence by getting decision-makers to talk
Turning ocean into drinking water: How it works, what it costs and is it safe?
Full article here: https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/23/turning-ocean-into-drinking-water-how-it-works-what-it-costs-and-is-it-safe/…Continue Reading Turning ocean into drinking water: How it works, what it costs and is it safe?
Joining forces
Full article here: https://news.uci.edu/2016/11/16/joining-forces/…Continue Reading Joining forces
Salton Sea water diversion could be catastrophic for public health
Full article: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article108100717.html…Continue Reading Salton Sea water diversion could be catastrophic for public health
October 22, 2020: Manageable or Wicked problems? COVID-19, Viral Contaminants, and Protection of our Water Supply
Date: October 22, 2020 Time: Noon – 1 p.m. Join Water UCI for its first panel discussion of the 2020/2021 academic year on the links between COVID-19 and our water systems, featuring experts in the field. The panelists include: Mark D. Sobsey, Research Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at University of North Carolina at…Continue Reading October 22, 2020: Manageable or Wicked problems? COVID-19, Viral Contaminants, and Protection of our Water Supply
Growing the Desert
Growing the Desert The cover of February 1950 issue of Desert Magazine is a telling departure from previous covers that depict Native Americans, natural desert vistas or plant life. The Hoover Dam looms large as the first “modern” man made structure to adorn the cover of the publications. (Figure 1) Into the 1950s more depictions of Anglo…Continue Reading Growing the Desert