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Lessons Australia's water reform offers in science, politics and sustainable watersheds

Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin watershed reform holds valuable lessons for policy makers grappling with environmental repercussions of extreme drought.

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Keeping Green During Drought

A new study analyzes patterns of urban irrigation and vegetation health during extreme drought. Its findings could inform urban water conservation and water infrastructure development under climate pressures.

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Putting a Tempest into a Teapot: Can California Better Use Winter Storms to Refill its Aquifers?

With new rules coming into effect, farmers and municipalities using groundwater must either find more water to support the aquifers or take cropland out of use. To ease the pain, engineers are looking to harness an unconventional and unwieldy source of water: the torrential storms that sometimes blast across the Pacific Ocean and soak California.

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About Water in the West

July 11, 2016

A joint program of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Water in the West marshals the resources of one of the world’s preeminent research institutions to address one of the most urgent questions about the West’s future—how can the region continue to thrive despite growing water scarcity? Learn more about our approach in this short video.

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Featured Events, Workshops & Dialogues

Seminar: A 'Moneyball' Approach to Closing the $2 Trillion Infrastructure Finance Gap: InfraTech, Data, and Financial Innovation

Friday, July 19, 2019 - 11:00am

Please join us at our Water in the West seminar on July 19, 2019 at 11:00 am in Y2E2 300. Peter Adriaens, Director of the Center for Digital Infrastructure Finance and Professor of Engineering, Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will be presenting "A 'Moneyball' Approach to...

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Safe & Reliable? The Future of California Water

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 3:30pm

Thank you for joining a panel of Stanford scientists and water experts for a discussion on California water quality issues that informed by their latest research in focal areas such as arsenic and chromium contamination; impacts of extractive industries on water; and more.

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Woods Seminar Series: Improving the Understanding of Snow Processes and Hydrometeorology Using Remote Sensing

Monday, February 25, 2019 - 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Please join us for a presentation by Laurie Huning from UC Irvine as part of the Woods Seminar Series.
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Understanding Groundwater

Our series explores groundwater management in California through new research into key groundwater issues, interactive graphics and a synthesis of existing knowledge on groundwater in California, all designed to advance public understanding of this critical issue.

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Water in the West is a program of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West.