Download or read book Preparing for California s Next Drought written by Jeanine Jones and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for California s Next Drought written by Jeanine Jones and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for California s Next Drought written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparation of this report was initiated in response to the unusually dry conditions experienced in California through Jan. 2000. The report reviews items that the California Dept. of Water Resources should consider in near-term drought planning, putting California's conditions today into perspective with experiences gained in the 1987-92 drought. Begins with an overview of California hydrology & water supply, then describes conditions encountered in the 1987-92 drought. Changed conditions since that drought are summarized, & their implications discussed. Concludes with a list of actions that the Dept. could take to respond to future drought conditions. Illustrated with color photos, maps & graphs.
Download or read book Preparing for Drought in the New Millenium written by National Drought Policy Commission and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for Drought in the 21st Century written by United States. National Drought Policy Commission and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Drought written by Betsy A. Cody and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California experienced severe water supply shortages in 2009, which led to economic disruption across the state, incl. losses in agricultural areas in the western portion of the Central Valley ¿ areas already experiencing declines in the housing industry and the economic downturn in general. At the same time, several fish species whose habitat lie at the heart of California¿s water supply system and throughout its northern rivers are in decline and some face the possibility of extinction. This situation too has had economic implications, resulting in job and income losses in northern California. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) What is Drought?; (3) Drought in California; (4) Regulatory Restrictions Affecting Water Deliveries; (5) California Water Rights. Illus.
Download or read book Drought Prediction Preparation and Response written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing California s Water written by Ellen Hanak and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preparing for Drought written by Donald A Wilhite and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes those unique characteristics of drought that set it apart from other natural hazards. Also describes the nature of impacts associated with drought. Illustrates with several case studies how some nations have coped with drought in the past and describes recent attempts to adopt a more proactive risk management approach. Also proposes a methodology to assist developing countries in the preparation of drought plans.
Download or read book California Drought an Update 2008 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Rivers written by F. Martin Ralph and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the standard reference based on roughly 20 years of research on atmospheric rivers, emphasizing progress made on key research and applications questions and remaining knowledge gaps. The book presents the history of atmospheric-rivers research, the current state of scientific knowledge, tools, and policy-relevant (science-informed) problems that lend themselves to real-world application of the research—and how the topic fits into larger national and global contexts. This book is written by a global team of authors who have conducted and published the majority of critical research on atmospheric rivers over the past years. The book is intended to benefit practitioners in the fields of meteorology, hydrology and related disciplines, including students as well as senior researchers.
Download or read book The West without Water written by B. Lynn Ingram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is "normal" climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will continue into the future. The West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the region’s climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861–62. The authors show that, while the West may have temporarily buffered itself from such harsh climatic swings by creating artificial environments and human landscapes, our modern civilization may be ill-prepared for the future climate changes that are predicted to beset the region. They warn that it is time to face the realities of the past and prepare for a future in which fresh water may be less reliable.
Download or read book Drought Preparedness and Response written by and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2011 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a reliable supply of water requires being prepared for water shortages of varying degree and duration. What can a municipal water supplier do to mitigate water shortages caused by drought? Preparing for drought and water shortages before they occur is the best defense. This manual will help water managers facing water shortages by illustrating how to employ tried-and-true strategies and tactics of drought mitigation, as well as new tools and methods. Managing water shortages involves temporarily reducing demand and finding alternate water to temporarily increase supply. There are options available to water managers to accomplish this. The manual provides a proven, seven-step process to anticipate and respond to water shortages through a structured planning process.
Download or read book Economic Impact of the Drought written by Dennis Fukumoto and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Drought Conditions in California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering Solutions for Droughts written by Avery Elizabeth Hurt and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global warming intensifies, experts warn of an increase in the number and severity of droughts around the world. This volume uses accessible language and engaging examples to inform middle-grade readers of what drought is and how scientists and engineers are learning ways to predict where it will occur and mitigate its consequences. Tools such as the U.S. Drought Monitor, U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, and Drought Impact Reporter are explained. Irrigation, soil sensor, and gene engineering technologies are also explored. The final chapter offers suggestions for what readers can do to help, ending the narrative on a hopeful note.
Download or read book Learning Through Experience written by Grace Woodmansee and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought is a fundamental driver of virtually all global landscapes and plays an important role in shaping how rangeland systems function. However, drought is also one of the most complex and destructive natural hazards for land managers to cope with and adapt to given the inherently variable spatial and temporal impacts of drought. Rangelands will continue to be challenged by the interacting effects of drought and climate change, as rising temperatures and greater precipitation variability exacerbate existing drought patterns. California's historic drought (2012-2016) serves as an important case study of how severe, multi-year drought impacts rangeland ecosystems and the communities that rely on them. Driven by remarkably arid conditions in 2014, the 2012-2015 drought period is considered the worst drought California has experienced in 1200 years according to paleoclimate reconstructions and hydrological modeling. These unprecedented conditions severely restricted the functioning and productivity of rangeland ecosystems throughout the state, which are almost entirely dependent on seasonal precipitation to support a variety of ecosystem services including forage for wildlife and domestic livestock. Ranchers are among the first to experience the social, economic, and environmental impacts of drought, which positions them to play an important role in co-developing management and policy guidance for building rangeland and ranching resilience to drought for the benefit of both their livelihoods and society. California's historic drought presents an opportunity to use lessons learned from on-the-ground managers to develop future adaptation and mitigation strategies for management and policy decision-making. Chapter One focuses on the experiences of ranchers who managed through California's historic drought (2012-2016). We conducted semi-structured interviews with 48 rangeland livestock producers in 2016 to examine on-ranch drought impacts, the use and effectiveness of drought management practices, and the effectiveness of multi-species grazing as a proactive management strategy. Regardless of operation structure or management planning, all interviewees reported that they were unprepared to cope with the unprecedented conditions brought about by the 2012-2015 drought period. During the drought, the most common impacts were reduced forage production (97.9% of interviewed ranchers) and increased expenses (89.6%); the two most commonly used drought management practices were purchasing feed (83.0%) and applying for government assistance (70.8%). Drought protection was driven by drought response strategies rather than drought preparation strategies. Multi-species grazing was the least used proactive drought management practice, but was the highest ranked proactive practice based on perceived effectiveness by interviewed ranchers. Multi-species grazers (MSGs) significantly differed from single-species grazers (SSGs) in adoption of several reactive drought management strategies, indicating that multi-species grazers have increased overall flexibility for managing through drought. As the unprecedented severity and duration of California's historic drought are predicted to become more common, strategies that were ranked as highly effective by interviewed ranchers may offer the greatest potential for mitigating future drought impacts. Chapter two focuses on comparing pre-and-post drought management perspectives. We opportunistically examined how California's historic, state-wide drought conditions shaped on-ranch drought impacts and management strategies via two separate research efforts: the California Rangeland Decision-Making Survey deployed in 2011 and a series of semi-structured interviews conducted during California's historic drought in 2016. Decreases in forage availability and profit were consistently reported as the most severe drought impacts across the survey and interview research efforts. Management practices adopted by ranchers in 2011 and 2016 were very similar- proactive practices focused on conserving forage and maintaining flexibility, while reactive practices focused on balancing forage supply and demand during drought years. We observed an increase in proactive practice adoption between 2011 and 2016 that may indicate that underlying drought conditions leading into 2012 were a catalyst for proactive drought planning (64% (n= 443) of ranchers reported using at least one proactive practice in 2011 whereas 98% (n= 48) reported using at least one proactive practice in 2016). It appears that managing through the historic drought changed the management perspective of ranchers; 74% (n= 443) of survey respondents in 2011 believed that future drought would impact their operations "as severely" or "worse" than past droughts, while 58% (n=47) of interviewed ranchers in 2016 believed that future drought would impact their operations 'less severely than the last (2012-2016) drought'. It is difficult to draw a single conclusion about what may be driving this change, particularly since increased perception of threat can be both a motivator and a deterrent for forward planning. Our results indicate that increasing management flexibility with a diversity of both proactive and reactive drought management strategies will continue to be a critical component of building ranch resilience, particularly during multi-year droughts. In addition, supporting a "drought planning mentality" and self-efficacy through research and outreach efforts may be the next step in developing effective mitigation strategies and enhancing ranch resilience to drought.
