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California’s Water: Storing Water

Joshua Viers, Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Samuel Sandoval Solis, Jeffrey Mount, Josué Medellín-Azuara, Jay R. Lund, Thomas Harter, Ellen Hanak, Jason Gurdak, Sarge Green, Graham E. Fogg, Andrew T. Fisher, Alvar Escriva-Bou | October 1st, 2016


An extensive storage system plays a critical role in the state’s water management. This brief describes a number of ways to improve the management of reservoirs and groundwater basins to better prepare for droughts and manage floods.

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

Keywords

planning and management, storage