Water Resources Management

Refugees
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Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 1, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how to help Ukrainian refugees, the link between cognitive processes and Truth Decay, tracking wastewater to understand the spread of COVID-19, and more.
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Biosurveillance
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National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Mar 24, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
For years, medical experts have used wastewater to track the spread of diseases. The National Wastewater Surveillance System has the potential to significantly change the way we fight COVID-19 as well as future pandemics, bacterial diseases, and viruses. But building up the robustness of a wastewater surveillance system will take financial support, and it's not clear Congress will provide it.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 and the Economy, America's Blood Supply, 10 Years of the ACA: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 27, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 and the economy, strengthening the U.S. blood supply, 10 years of the Affordable Care Act, and more.
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Urban Planning
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Green Infrastructure in Los Angeles: An Olympian Feat
Noah Johnson, Karishma V. Patel, Jarrett Catlin
Feb 11, 2020
The RAND Blog
Los Angeles has an opportunity to reinvent itself by harnessing the collective spirit of Olympics development, climate activism, and Measure W funding. No single project can address all LA's environmental needs, but many diverse projects could provide an opportunity for synergies and to create a new “city feel,” the way palm trees, traffic, and movie-touting billboards do now.
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Water Resources Management
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Los Angeles River Revitalization: Taking Inspiration from Near and Far
Keren Zhu, J. Luke Irwin, Stephanie Tanverakul, Timothy R. Gulden
Feb 4, 2020
The RAND Blog
Currently a predominantly concrete channel running through the city, the Los Angeles River has great potential to revitalize Los Angeles's water resources, landscape, and identity. Creating a new vision for the river presents a complex challenge for policymakers, engineers, and urban planners.
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Water Resources Management
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More Than Stormwater: How Green Infrastructure Offers Multiple Benefits for Los Angeles Communities
Joan Chang, Kristin Warren, Jonathan Lamb, Pau Alonso García-Bode
Jan 29, 2020
The RAND Blog
California faces water supply shortages, which are worsened by climate change. Applying a systems framework is essential to addressing complex problems for the sustainability of water resources.
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Water Resources Management
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How to Ensure Quality Drinking Water Service for All? One Option Is Fewer Utilities
David Catt, Michelle E. Miro, Miriam E. Marlier
Mar 26, 2019
The RAND Blog
California's Human Right to Water Bill declares that “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water.” One clear barrier to reaching this target is the sheer number of small water utilities that pose service sustainability and public health risks to their customers.
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Water Resources Management
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Lessening Leakages: How Water Systems Can Learn From Smart Electric Grids
Jalal Awan, Michelle E. Miro, Miriam E. Marlier
Mar 22, 2019
The RAND Blog
As drought and population growth place increasing pressure on water supply, the need to save and efficiently manage Southern California's water resources becomes increasingly critical. A single information and communication technology platform could go a long way toward moving water utilities from reactive to proactive maintenance practices.
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Water Supply
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Increasing Groundwater Reliance in L.A. County Means Dealing with Extensive Contamination
Alexandra Huttinger, Michelle E. Miro, Miriam E. Marlier
Mar 12, 2019
The RAND Blog
As the Los Angeles region increases its reliance on groundwater sources to become more resilient in the face of drought and to reduce demand for imported water sources, advances in the information available on groundwater quality and contamination could help community water systems avoid health hazards and better ensure a safe drinking water supply.
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Global Climate Change
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Resilience and Adaptation Strategies Can Address the Impacts of Climate Change
Feb 26, 2019
With climate change already generating storms, heat waves, and droughts beyond historical norms, local governments need to do more to prepare. A decisionmaking framework developed by RAND allows communities to stress-test ideas, weigh the trade-offs, and plan for a range of possible futures.
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Infrastructure Finance
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How Federal Policy Could Help Water and Wastewater Utilities
Debra Knopman, David Catt
Jan 16, 2018
Inside Sources
A targeted approach could help the federal government address the root causes of infrastructure problems more effectively than a spending initiative that simply spreads money around with the hope that more spending might do some good.
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Water Resources Management
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How Should Water Professionals Invest in Resilience?
Jordan R. Fischbach
Jul 12, 2017
The Source
Water professionals can think about building resilience as a process of embracing and managing future uncertainty. Rather than trying to predict which problem to plan for, researchers help planners consider a wide range of potential scenarios.
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Water Supply
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Getting the Lead Out of Pittsburgh's Water
Jordan R. Fischbach, Linnea Warren May @LinneaKWMay
Jul 3, 2017
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Without an aggressive long-term strategy for replacing service lines, and collaboration among the water authority, public officials, and residents, lead in Pittsburgh's water will persist.
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San Francisco
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RAND Opens Office in the San Francisco Bay Area
Apr 3, 2017
RAND has opened an office in the San Francisco Bay Area to foster collaboration with the region's leaders and researchers working to solve today's complex problems. Nidhi Kalra, a senior information scientist, is leading the new office.
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Water Resources Management
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Ensuring Robust Water Management Strategies in Lima-Callão, Peru
Laura Bonzanigo, Nidhi Kalra, David G. Groves, Carter Brandon
Nov 16, 2015
The World Bank Water Blog
Water resource agencies around the world are grappling with how to make smart investments to ensure long-term water reliability at a time of unprecedented water stress, growing demands, uncertain climate change, and limited budgets.
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Public Utilities
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What Durban Can Teach Detroit: Getting Customers to Pay Their Water Bills
Julia Pollak
Jul 29, 2015
The RAND Blog
South Africa is proving that governments in poor cities can provide water and collect payment without turning off the water spigot. Detroit and Baltimore might consider exploring models like this that have been successfully tested in even more challenging settings.
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Global Climate Change
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RAND Announces New Water and Climate Change Resilience Center
Jan 6, 2015
RAND has established a new Water and Climate Resilience Center to address one of the most significant policy challenges of our time: How do we plan, build, and organize our societal systems to become more resilient to the unavoidable impacts of climate change?
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Developing Countries
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Climate Change, Uncertainty Cast Clouds on Malawi's Food Policies
Tobi A. Oluwatola
May 20, 2014
The RAND Blog
Malawi has the highest per capita maize consumption in Africa, but it may need to consider alternatives, taking into greater consideration weather, climate change and water needs.
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Water Supply
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New Colorado River Basin Study Examines Tremendous Challenges of the Coming 50 Years
David G. Groves, Jordan R. Fischbach, Evan Bloom
Dec 18, 2012
Growing water needs combined with uncertain but possibly deteriorating future hydrologic conditions could stress the Colorado River system in the coming 50 years.
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Environmental Sustainability
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Bringing Sustainability to the Louisiana Coast
David G. Groves
Jun 7, 2012
Policy Researcher David Groves describes RAND's role in helping to develop a plan to guide Louisiana's coastal investments, help its coastal citizens plan for the future, and create a sustainable coast.
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The strength of NATO is that it is at its essence an ongoing consultation based on trust, and where needed a central meeting point for smaller groups of allies to collaborate on an issue-by-issue basis. Finland and Sweden could benefit by working from the outset to advance the dialogue, express their interests, and help to shape what can be a stronger, smarter NATO.

Gene Germanovich

International Defense Researcher

Source: United Press International

While new commitments see NATO furthering its human security efforts across alliance activities and mainstreaming these approaches, the reality remains that these commitments can appear vague and open ended, suggesting there is much to be desired in terms of specific direction that NATO forces are required to operationalise and implement.

Kaleigh Heard

Senior Analyst

Source: The RAND Blog

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Finnish and Swedish NATO Membership: Toward a Larger, Stronger, Smarter Alliance

Will Teachers Quit? What Surveys Can and Can't Tell Us

Three Steps to Protect Communities from Climate Change

The Policy Currents Podcast

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Water Resources Management

Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap

National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds

COVID-19 and the Economy, America's Blood Supply, 10 Years of the ACA: RAND Weekly Recap

Green Infrastructure in Los Angeles: An Olympian Feat

Los Angeles River Revitalization: Taking Inspiration from Near and Far

More Than Stormwater: How Green Infrastructure Offers Multiple Benefits for Los Angeles Communities

How to Ensure Quality Drinking Water Service for All? One Option Is Fewer Utilities

Lessening Leakages: How Water Systems Can Learn From Smart Electric Grids

Increasing Groundwater Reliance in L.A. County Means Dealing with Extensive Contamination

Resilience and Adaptation Strategies Can Address the Impacts of Climate Change

How Federal Policy Could Help Water and Wastewater Utilities

How Should Water Professionals Invest in Resilience?

Getting the Lead Out of Pittsburgh's Water

RAND Opens Office in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ensuring Robust Water Management Strategies in Lima-Callão, Peru

What Durban Can Teach Detroit: Getting Customers to Pay Their Water Bills

RAND Announces New Water and Climate Change Resilience Center

Climate Change, Uncertainty Cast Clouds on Malawi's Food Policies

New Colorado River Basin Study Examines Tremendous Challenges of the Coming 50 Years

Bringing Sustainability to the Louisiana Coast

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