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Instream flows: new tools to quantify water quality conditions for returning adult Chinook salmon

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

This paper examines the effect of implementing a water transaction program to address potential water quality limitations for returning adult fall-run Chinook salmon in a stream system where the agriculture is the dominant land and water use. Water transactions are becoming an increasingly used approach to provide instream flows during periods when...

Simulating High-Elevation Hydropower with Regional Climate Warming in the West Slope, Sierra Nevada

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Water systems in snowmelt-dominated hydro-regions such as California\textquoterights Sierra Nevada mountains are sensitive to regional climate change, hydropower systems in particular. In this study, a water resources management model was developed for the upper west slope Sierra Nevada to understand the potential effects of regional climate warmin...

Some Curious Things About Water Management

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Water management is often very different from what we think intuitively or what we have been taught. Here are some examples.

Residential Water Conservation in Australia and California

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

In much of the western United States, reducing residential water use is a major source of water conservation, especially as population growth urbanizes agricultural land. Although estimates of the potential of conservation are useful, the experience of Australia provides a realistic target for residential water conservation. Although reliability of...

Water Management Adaptations to Prevent Loss of Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California under Climate Change

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Spring-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are particularly vulnerable to climate change because adults over-summer in freshwater streams before spawning in autumn. We examined streamflow and water temperature regimes that could lead to long-term reductions in spring-run Chinook salmon (SRCS) in a California stream and evaluated managemen...

Water supply analysis for restoring the Colorado River Delta, Mexico

Published in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management