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The California Water Bills: How to Make the Delta More Like the Netherlands than New Orleans

August 14, 2009

Posted by Barry Nelson in Health and the Environment

Tags:
bayconservationanddevelopmentcommission, baydelta, delta, flooding, globalwarming, levees, netherlands, neworleans, sealevelrise

What do Dutch engineers and the new California water governance bills have to do with one another? Quite a lot, I realized the other afternoon, as I listened to a group of engineers explain how the Netherlands is preparing its...continued

A Rare Opportunity for Change: California's Five New Water Bills

August 10, 2009

Posted by Barry Nelson in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, californiadrought, centralvalleyproject, delta, deltavisiontaskforce, globalwarming, waterconservation, waterefficiency

I have been working on California water issues for 25 years, and I've learned that major opportunities for transformative change doesn't come around too often. Now is one of those times. Late last week, the California Legislature released a package...continued

Good to the Last Drop?

May 28, 2008

Posted by Barry Nelson in Living Sustainably

Tags:
baydelta, california, climatechange, globalwarming, waterwars

Yesterday, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program released a report evaluating the likely effects of climate change on water and other resources in the United States.  Rather than focus on long-term projections – to 2100 – this report focuses on...continued

Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson
Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program
San Francisco
During the week, I’m the director of the California Vision Project for NRDC’s Water Program,...
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