Chapter 06 - Management of Water Scarcity, Quality, and Flooding

Primary Reading:

• Chapter 6, pages 253-314

Primary Video:

• Water Marketing, Groundwater Banking and Drought Management in California (36 min, 2014)

Additional Readings & Videos by Topic:

Water Supply: Conservation, Conjunctive Use, Water Reuse

• Management, Economics and Engineering Perspectives on Reconciliation Ecology (Video, 28 min, 2014)
• Importance of Upper Watershed Management to Water Supply (Reading, 2014)
• Successful Groundwater Management and Banking Programs (Reading, 2013)

Water Quality: Pollution Management & Response

• Salinity Management in the Delta During Drought (Reading, 2014)
• Desalination, Menachem Elimelech (Video, 2012)
• Direct Potable Reuse and wastewater treatment technologies, George Tchobanoglous (Video, 2015)

Flood Management: Preparation, Response, Recovery

• Lund, J.R.,"Flood Management in California" (Reading, 12 pages, 2012)
• What the New Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Means for Sacramento Area Levees (Video, 60 min, 2013)

Integrated Water Management

• Mark Cowin: California's Integrated Water Management (Video, 26 min, 2013)

Keywords:

Conjunctive use, Water pricing, Water banks, Urban conservation, Water markets