Tag: 2017

colloquium series

Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities Click here to view the event recording. The use of desalinated ocean water to supplement Southern California’s limited water supply is an often- contentious proposal. Water UCI invited leaders in desalination technology and policy to discuss both the challenges and…Continue Reading Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities

Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply Click here to view the event recording. Hydraulic fracturing is a process used to increase the rate at which fossil fuels can be recovered from natural reservoirs.  This water-dependent practice has implications for California’s water supply in both the short and long term.  Water…Continue Reading Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply

The Local Water Transition for California Cities

Dr. David Sedlak is a Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Co-Director of the Berkeley Water Center, and Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). Water UCI Colloquium Series: The Local Water Transition for California Cities Click here to view the event recording. California’s…Continue Reading The Local Water Transition for California Cities

InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in the Central Valley, California from 2007-2017

Tom G Farr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Water UCI Colloquium Series: InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in the Central Valley, California from 2007-2017 Click here to view the event recording. Subsidence caused by groundwater pumping in the rich agricultural area of California’s Central Valley has been a problem for decades. Over the last few years, interferometric synthetic…Continue Reading InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in the Central Valley, California from 2007-2017

Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation Property Rights and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation Property Rights and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States Click here to view the event recording. Click here to view the event recording….Continue Reading Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation Property Rights and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States