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Water and Energy in California

By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan, Andrew Ayres

Dec 6, 2022 ... Water and energy are closely entwined in California: the energy sector relies heavily on water for electricity generation, and statewide ...

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Priorities for California’s Water

By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ...

Nov 16, 2022 ... Climate change is making California's already variable climate even more unpredictable, and that's stressing the state's water and land ...

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Solar Energy and Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley

By Andrew Ayres, Annabelle Rosser, Ellen Hanak, Alvar Escriva-Bou ...

Supported with funding from the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy at the ... The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, for instance, ...

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Storing Water for the Environment

By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ...

Water and land use practices, pollution, the proliferation of non-native ... at the surface of the reservoir began to warm rapidly due to increasing air ...

Statewide Survey

PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and the Environment

By Mark Baldassare, Dean Bonner, Rachel Lawler, Deja Thomas

Jul 8, 2022 ... Key findings include: Three in ten Californians name water supply and drought as the state's top environmental issue; nearly seven in ten ...

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Land Transitions and Dust in the San Joaquin Valley

By Andrew Ayres, Jaymin Kwon, Joy Collins

Jul 25, 2022 ... The overall air quality impact of transitioning agricultural land to new ... Water-limited farming, with a small amount of irrigation to ...

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The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta

By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Greg Gartrell

The Delta is California's largest estuary and a vital hub in the water supply ... Farming has caused peat-rich soils to oxidize and land to sink: today, ...