2012-05-24T14:21:08Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/water-supply.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP360.html Jan 10, 2012 Jan 10, 2012

Climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics are examined for their national security implications and impacts on the global commons. This paper describes four clusters of policy approaches for these complex, interconnected issues and uses suggestive examples to build the case for policy evolution away from fixing problems and toward innovative alternatives, such as anti-fragile systems, that actually benefit from change and uncertainty.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2011/10/25/californias-water-challenges.html Oct 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011

David Groves discusses an innovative approach to dealing with the many challenges that may contribute to sustainable and affordable solutions of long term water supplies in California.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100251.html Apr 30, 2011 Apr 30, 2011

<p>The authors assessed the acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of a school-based intervention to improve drinking water consumption among adolescents.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000193.html Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2010

This paper describes work helping the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) explicitly develop adaptive policies to respond to climate change and integrating these policies into the organizations' long-range planning processes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100010.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>This study of perceptions of drinking water in a California school district found that school staff and public health officials have a range of concerns about water quality and availability; as some schools move to replace sugary drinks in schools and develop policies to promote water consumption, they should explore ways of addressing these concerns.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT305.html Apr 3, 2008 Apr 3, 2008

<p>Testimony presented before the California State Assembly Subcommittee on Education on April 2, 2008.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9315.html Jan 22, 2008 Jan 22, 2008

This research brief summarizes work with Southern California's Inland Empire Utilities Agency to help it identify climate-change vulnerabilities in its long-term water plans and evaluate its most effective options for managing those risks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR504.html Jan 10, 2008 Jan 10, 2008

<p>Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. An economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council helps estimate the avoided costs and environmental benefits of increasing water-use efficiency. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080721.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Water managers in Southern California, who grapple with how to address climate change in their near-term and long-term plans, are beginning to seek methods for incorporating such changes in their planning processes.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR461.html Oct 25, 2007 Oct 25, 2007

<p>The amount of water a typical commercial building needs to provide essential services is highly variable. A new framework and tool provides a convenient way to consider the potential value of water-efficiency investments under price uncertainty without collecting extensive data or hiring a consultant.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9294.html Oct 20, 2007 Oct 20, 2007

This fact sheet describes a case study of commercial-building water efficiency and the Building Water Efficiency Analysis Model used to conduct it. The model allows convenient assessment of potential value of water-efficiency investments.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9102.html Nov 25, 2005 Nov 25, 2005

Water availability has become a pressing concern in recent years due to unprecedented growth in the earth's human population.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG358.html Oct 28, 2005 Oct 28, 2005

<p>Water availability has become a pressing concern due to unprecedented population growth. To avoid a worldwide water crisis, management policies must address the impact of demographic factors on supply and demand and find ways to use the existing freshwater supply more efficiently.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB471-1.html Feb 25, 2005 Feb 25, 2005

<p>L.A.'s port, airport, and Department of Water and Power together contract for more than a billion dollars worth of goods and services annually; these activities could be made more transparent and efficient, thus improving public trust.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP139.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

Poisoned Wells: The Politics of Water in the Middle East

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1077.html Jan 1, 1999 Jan 1, 1999

An assessment of the effects on human health of reclaimed water. The results of the study do not provide evidence of an association between reclaimed water and adverse birth outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rand_europe/RE99-015.html Dec 31, 1998 Dec 31, 1998

This study provides recommendations to the Dutch Commission on the structuring of scenarios for future water management. The focus lies on two central questions: how will supply and demand for water change and develop in the next 100 years?

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR552.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

This report attempts to improve understanding of the likely effects of water supply reductions on agriculture.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR301.html Jan 1, 1993 Jan 1, 1993

In 1991, to mitigate the effects of a five-year drought, the California department of Water Resources bought water from farmers, landlords, and agencies in northern and central California and resold it to urban and agricultural areas.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7840.html Dec 31, 1992 Dec 31, 1992

In the past few years, the many-faceted problem of water in the Middle East has received increasing attention. Issues of scarcity, management, ownership, and use have been discussed in their own right, as well as in relation to the politics of the re...