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Tag: water abundance

Ringside: When it Comes to Water, California Needs to Think Big Again

May 14, 2026   6:00 amMay 14, 2026   6:01 am
For most of the previous century, Californians successfully designed and built big water infrastructure. In sixty years, from 1910 through 1970, we built the most impressive system of interbasin transfers in the world. The Los Angeles Aqueduct, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct,...
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Ringside: The Abundance Alliance

April 23, 2026   4:25 pmApril 23, 2026   4:25 pm
Abundance, and its political twin, affordability, are now bipartisan mantras, but cannot be realized if the only permissible avenues are via urban infill, renewable energy, and water rationing. California is uniquely positioned to do much more. Breakthrough technologies and big...
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Ringside: How to Achieve Water Abundance in California

August 8, 2024   7:00 amAugust 8, 2024   7:01 am
A study released in May, The Magnitude of California’s Water Challenges, anticipated annual statewide water supply losses in the coming decades as follows: ending groundwater overdraft 2-3 million acre-feet (MAF), less from the Colorado River 0.5-0.8 MAF, climate change 1-3 MAF,...
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Ringside: Challenging the Water Orthodoxy

January 4, 2024   3:30 amJanuary 4, 2024   3:31 am
Along with energy, water abundance is a nonnegotiable prerequisite for conditions we value and aspire to achieve: prosperity, affordability, resilience, and equity. But judging from California’s restrictive policies over the past fifty years, continuously escalating in severity and scope, you...
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The Abundance Choice, Part 15: Our Fight for More Water

June 16, 2022   2:30 amJune 15, 2022   8:49 pm
There are plenty of ways to ration water, and California’s state legislature is pursuing all of them. Restrict agricultural water allocations until millions of acres of California’s irrigated farmland is taken out of production. Ban outdoor watering entirely in urban...
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