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Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
"Comparing Futures for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta" originated as a report by a multidisciplinary team of experts, including UC Davis scientists Jay Lund, William Fleenor, William Bennett, Richard Howitt, Jeffrey Mount, and Peter Moyle and the Public Policy Institute’s Ellen Hanak. These videos highlight presentations at a two-day workshop in 2008 to discuss those findings, including the idea that a peripheral canal —conveying water around the delta instead of through it — should be part of a long-term strategy to serve both water supply and environmental objectives.
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Lund discusses recent policy and technical discussions that have begun to revisit the idea of building a peripheral canal to divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Delta and deliver it to the export pumps. A canal or other form of upstream diversion of water exports involves a...
Published 11/13/08
This presentation by Wei-Hsiang Chen from the UC Davis John Muir Institute for the Environment explores the current and long-term effects of Delta export water quality on drinking water treatment cost and any public health risks from the disinfection process. Salinity, organic carbons, nutrients...
Published 11/13/08
Water exports from the southern Delta to users in the Bay Area and Southern California have become a central concern for the environmental health of the Delta, due to the dramatic decline of numerous fish species in recent years. This video discussion looks at two alternatives to those pumping...
Published 11/13/08
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