Other Resource Management Strategies

This narrative highlights a variety of water management strategies that can potentially generate benefits that meet one or more water management objectives, such as water supply augmentation or water quality enhancements. However, these management strategies have limited capacity to strategically address long-term regional water planning needs.

These are unique strategies and do not fit into the other classified strategies. In some cases, such as dewvaporation, the strategy involves emerging technologies that will require more research and development. Other cases, such as crop idling and irrigated land retirement, involve voluntary and often temporary tradeoffs from one sector of use to another (i.e., agricultural to urban) that will likely be unpredictable and limited in scope.

Finally, implementation of strategies, such as rainfed agriculture, will have limited applicability in California because of the variability and uncertainty of precipitation patterns from year to year.

The strategies discussed in this resource management strategy report are:
• Crop idling for water transfers.
• Dewvaporation or atmospheric pressure desalination.
• Fog collection.
• Irrigated land retirement.
• Rainfed agriculture.
• Snow fences.
• Waterbag transport/storage technology.