California Colloquium on Water: Ellen Hanak

Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the hub of California's water supply system, home to a unique and threatened ecosystem and to a vibrant recreational and agricultural economy. Recent research has exposed serious problems in the Delta, including precipitous declines in some fish species and increasing threats to the stability of the levee system. In this lecture, Ellen Hanak will present the results of a recent study she co-authored that explores alternatives for resolving these problems, ranging from fortifying the levee system, to building various forms of a peripheral canal, to reducing water exports to Southern California and converting...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• howto
• california
• colloquium
• water
• ellen
• hanak
• yt:quality=high