In a recent article Jay Lund, Director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, examines California’s key water challenges. Published on the California Water Blog and also featured in The Sacramento Bee, titled “Inevitable Changes to Water in California”, he lists in the form of predictions, specific bullet points that analyze each issue that will affect California’s hydrologic landscape for years to come.
In his article he lists the following predictions:
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will export less water and have more open water.
The San Joaquin Valley will have less irrigated agricultural land.
Urban areas will use less water, reuse more wastewater, and capture more stormwater.
Groundwater in many agricultural areas will become more contaminated.
Water solutions and funding will become even more local and regional.
Water will be managed more tightly and formally due to economic and environmental pressures.
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