The focus of the book is on water allocation, not on water quality regulation. (However, it does include some discussion of water quality regulation and other environmental matters that affect water allocation.) The book combines public rights, particularl

... other surface waters across the United States -- was groundwater pumping. ... jumped more than six-fold, from 50,000 to 330,000 acre-feet per year. And ... the culture of water use in the United States, explaining how and why we

... on desalination by Dr. Fares Howari of United Arab Emirates University, and more.

Forum discusses the environmental restoration efforts of "Bay Nature on the Air," a TV series based on stories from Bay Nature magazine, and other non-profit groups in Bay Area. Host: Michael Krasny Guests: David Loeb, publisher and co-founder of Bay Natur

... vast region encompassing our western states, while founded essentially as

In Crossing the Next Meridian, Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmo

... its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape.

The Women's Leadership Scholarship (WLS) program (formerly the Native Leadership Scholarship) creates educational opportunities for women activists, grassroots leaders, and organizers from the Global South and/or from indigenous groups. WLS invests in wome

This is a project of the Oregon State University Department of Geosciences,

In this accessible primer, Dessler and Parson combine their expertise in atmospheric science and public policy to help scientists, policy makers, and the public sort through the conflicting claims in the climate-change debate. The authors explain how scien