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colloquium series

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Quantifying Drinking Water Quality Risk and Solutions in California – A Statewide Assessment | 05/18/21 at 12 PM

Greg Pierce, Associate Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation, faculty member in the Department of Urban Planning and the co-director of the UCLA Water Resources Faculty group This talk discusses the methodology and results of California’s inaugural statewide needs assessment for drinking water quality and affordability. The needs assessment, led by the State Water Board…Continue Reading Water UCI Colloquium Series: Quantifying Drinking Water Quality Risk and Solutions in California – A Statewide Assessment | 05/18/21 at 12 PM

Local Non-Profits Discuss: The Future of Water in Southern California

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Local Non-Profits Discuss: The Future of Water in Southern California Click here to view event recording. Non-governmental actors are major players in the creation and production – up and downstream – of water management. This panel discussion invited representatives from a diverse set of nonprofit organizations to talk about the future…Continue Reading Local Non-Profits Discuss: The Future of Water in Southern California

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

Communicating Water Science Creatively: Taking Knowledge From the Lab to Classrooms and Communities

Featuring John Christensen, founder of the Laboratory of Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA and Sandra Tsing Oh,  host of daily science segment, “The Loh Down of Science” Water UCI Colloquium Series: Communicating Water Science Creatively: Taking Knowledge From the Lab to Classrooms and Communities Click here to view the event recording.          …Continue Reading Communicating Water Science Creatively: Taking Knowledge From the Lab to Classrooms and Communities

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

A 21st Century Financing Framework to Support Water Sector Paradigm Shift

Newsha Ajami, Director of Urban Water Policy at Stanford University Water UCI Colloquium Series: A 21st Century Financing Framework to Support Water Sector Paradigm Shift Social, economic, and environmental well-being of any community depends on reliable access to clean water. Over the past century, our nation has invested heavily on large-scale engineering solutions to enhance…Continue Reading A 21st Century Financing Framework to Support Water Sector Paradigm Shift

Transitioning to Integrated Water Management

Michael Antos, Senior Integrated Water Management Specialist at Stantec Water UCI Colloquium Series: Transitioning to Integrated Water Management In 2002 California created the Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program to drive the transition to integrated water management in the state. Designed to reveal that integrated planning and shared governance was more efficient over the long term, the IRWM…Continue Reading Transitioning to Integrated Water Management