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California’s Water: Preparing for Floods

Brett Sanders, Nicholas Pinter, Jeffrey Mount, Jay R. Lund, Carolyn Kousky, Matt Kondolf, Ellen Hanak | October 1st, 2016


One in five residents and billions of dollars in assets are vulnerable to flooding. Climate change brings new vulnerabilities. This brief describes new tools and approaches that can reduce these risks.

This publication is part of a briefing kit that summarizes a dozen of the state’s most pressing water management issues.

Keywords

flood management, funding, planning and management