Water Resources

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Gartner and team receive Sustainable Forestry Initiative grant

The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global development and environmental think tank, will receive a grant of $35,000 USD to research how forest certification standards can help protect American lakes and rivers, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) announced today.
July 26, 2012
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Hall on call for help from Angelenos to map small creeks

Landscape architect Jessica Hall, a longtime advocate for "daylighting" streams in LA, says the small waterways that remain can be sources of confusion for builders and urban planners."I’ve seen this situation a few times where because the creeks are not mapped," she says, "building and safety officials aren’t aware of their presence and don’t know to take the steps that they need to take to protect the streams when a neighbor comes in and wants to McMansionize their property."
July 17, 2012
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Andrew on how CA Department of Water Resources plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

"It is things like limiting idling time of equipment. It's looking at all of our equipment and seeing that it's sized right for the job," explained John Andrew, assistant deputy at DWR.
July 5, 2012
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McCarthy featured in slide show about restoration on New Mexico's San Juan River

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June 29, 2012
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Vorster quoted on EPA finding that Bay Area waterways more polluted than previously thought

Hydrogeographers such as Peter Vorster of the Bay Institute are on one side. KTVU met him along the last stretch of the wild San Joaquin River, arguably the most desiccated -- and desecrated -- major river in California. "This has a lot of salts in it from the agricultural runoff, Vorster remarked. "The water that would have been in here, a lot of it has been diverted to make these fields grow these amazing crops. The San Joaquin Valley is the most productive agricultural region, arguably, in the world."
June 26, 2012
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Balazs's work with contamination of minorities' drinking water featured

“We were in Seville last week doing survey work and heard about people getting boil notices when there’s bacteria,” said Balazs, who joined the Community Water Center as a staff scientist after completing her Ph.D at UC Berkeley. “But one of the worst things you can do is boil water when there are nitrates. It just concentrates them.” Read the full story
June 20, 2012
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Esther Conrad

2012 Fellow
A 2012 Switzer Fellow, Esther is deeply invested in policy-relevant research and partnerships to address critical sustainability challenges, especially in the context of water and climate change, and environmental justice. Currently, she works at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West, where she manages research projects in collaboration with government entities focused on groundwater governance, California's transition to zero emission vehicles, and policies to reduce wildfire risk.
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Priya Ganguli

2012 Fellow
Priya Ganguli is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in the Department of Geological Sciences and the new CSUN Water Science Program. She studies the transport and fate of contaminants in aquatic...
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Lindsey Stuvick

2012 Fellow
Lindsey manages the Water Efficiency Department at Moulton Niguel Water District and serves on the Board of Directors for the California Water Efficiency Partnership and as the Chair of the Data Action Team for the California Data...
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Miriam Torres

2012 Fellow
Miriam Torres is an environmental justice advocate, urban planner, collaborator, and mother. Currently, Miriam is a Principal Environmental Planner in the Planning and Climate Protection Division of the Bay Area Air Quality Management...