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Interactive Examination of How to Adapt to a Changing Colorado River

The Colorado River Basin Study evaluated the river system's resiliency and compared resource management options using the Robust Decision Making methodology.

Nov 5, 2013
Report

Robust Decision Making Enables Colorado River Planners to Ensure Water Reliability

The Colorado River Basin Study evaluated the river system's resiliency and compared resource management options. The Robust Decision Making methodology helped to identify vulnerabilities and compare portfolios of options.

Nov 5, 2013
Dissertation

Monopoly and Micro-Irrigation in Smallholder Water Markets

Many rural agricultural areas around the world are facing severely depleted groundwater resources, which farmers rely on for irrigation. This dissertation explores the changes that would follow a move to formalize water markets and establish tradable water rights.

Oct 30, 2013
Commentary

Using Mobile Money to Make Water Safe

Contaminated drinking water contributes to the deaths of some 750,000 children under the age of five every year due to diarrheal disease. A RAND project is using mobile phones to increase the sales and use of safe-water filters in Kenya.

May 21, 2013
Journal Article

New Methods to Implement Multi-Attribute RDM

Many objective robust decision making (MORDM) combines concepts and methods from many objective evolutionary optimization and robust decision making (RDM), along with extensive use of interactive visual analytics, to facilitate the management of complex environmental systems.

Apr 1, 2013
Blog

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

Growing water needs combined with uncertain but possibly deteriorating future hydrologic conditions could stress the Colorado River system in the coming 50 years. Options that could be effective in improving it include urban conservation, agricultural conservation, and groundwater desalination.

Dec 18, 2012
Journal Article

Learning to Dislike Safe Water Products: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Direct and Peer Experience on Willingness to Pay

Low-cost point-of-use (POU) safe water products have the potential to reduce waterborne illness, but adoption by the global poor remains low. Widespread dissemination of safe water products is unlikely until we better understand the preferences and aspirations of these at-risk populations.

Jun 1, 2012
Report

Threats Without Threateners?

Three issues with far-reaching causes and consequences—climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics—are examined with attention to their national security implications and impacts on the global commons.

Jan 10, 2012
Journal Article

Household Water Supply Choice and Time Allocated to Water Collection: Evidence from Madagascar

This article uses household survey data from Madagascar to examine water supply choice and time spent in water collection.

Dec 1, 2011
Multimedia

California's Water Challenges

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.

Oct 25, 2011
Journal Article

What Point-of-Use Water Treatment Products Do Consumers Use? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Among the Urban Poor in Bangladesh

There is evidence that household point-of-use (POU) water treatment products can reduce the enormous burden of water-borne illness. Nevertheless, adoption among the global poor is very low, and little evidence exists on why.

Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article

Increasing the Availability and Consumption of Drinking Water in Middle Schools: A Pilot Study

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

May 1, 2011
Journal Article

Identifying and Evaluating Robust Adaptive Policy Responses to Climate Change for Water Management Agencies in the American West

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.

Jul 1, 2010
Journal Article

Perceptions About Availability and Adequacy of Drinking Water in a Large California School District

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.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Developing and Applying Uncertain Global Climate Change Projections for Regional Water Management Planning

Climate change may impact water resources management conditions in difficult-to-predict ways. A key challenge for water managers is how to incorporate highly uncertain information about potential climate change from global models into local- and regional-scale water management models and tools to support local planning.

Dec 1, 2008
Testimony

Availability of Drinking Water in California Public Schools

Testimony presented before the California State Assembly Subcommittee on Education on April 2, 2008.

Apr 3, 2008
Research Brief

Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans

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.

Jan 22, 2008
Report

Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West

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.

Jan 4, 2008
Journal Article

Planning for Climate Change in the Inland Empire: Southern California

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.

Jan 1, 2008
Research Brief

A New Tool Can Help Commercial-Building Owners Make Better Water-Efficiency Decisions

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.

Oct 21, 2007

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