We can’t make it rain. But you are already helping if you don’t use more water than you need. And you can talk to your parents about the planet getting warmer, because the heat makes drought worse.
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Windhoek can teach Cape Town on dealing with drought. Technology alone is not enough.
Understanding how drought is impacting on livelihoods and local governments can help in the development of longer term climate adaptation responses.
Hydrologists, climate scientists and policymakers are beginning to grapple with a difficult question: who will be affected most by longer and more frequent droughts?
The same persistent weather pattern bringing hot, dry conditions to California is likely connected to a punishing drought in the Sao Paulo area in Brazil.
As California enters another hot dry summer, policymakers from water and electric utilities are looking at ways to preserve these interdependent resources.
Can California – and its massive agriculture industry – endure the drought without destroying its groundwater resources?
The majority of water that people use goes to agriculture. In a drier, hungrier future, we’ll need to use what water we have with less waste. Technologies being developed now will help.
Americans love their lawns but are lawns good for America, particularly in drought-stricken areas? A look at our grassy love affair and what might be better alternatives.
With emergency water rationing in place, how are universities – and other major water consumers – going to conserve?
What explains the unusually dry and warm weather that’s behind California’s prolonged drought? And how is climate change contributing?
California is blessed with so much agricultural land that no matter how much the state conserves or produces, there will also be an economic incentive to consume more water.
The “warm blob” of remarkably warm water in the Pacific is changing weather patterns and impacting marine life, providing clues to how ecosystems may change in a warmer future.
Built-up urban environments transform the resource of rainwater into wasted runoff. Low Impact Development mimics nature to help get stormwater into the natural water system.
Top contributors
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Professor Emerita of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies for Environmental Engineering, and Canada Research Chair in Stormwater and Low Impact Development (Tier II), Carleton University
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Scientist and Director of Research Communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Arizona State University
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Senior research scientist, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Urban Planning & Public Policy and Political Science, Director of Water UCI, University of California, Irvine
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Research Engineer at Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University
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Professor of Meteorology and Climatology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Hydrogeology and Hydrogeologist, University of California, Davis
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Director of Sustainability, University of California, Riverside
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Senior Lecturer/Senior Researcher, Departmant of Geography, History and Environmental Studies, University of Namibia, University of Namibia
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Washington State Climatologist and Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University
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Director Emeritus, California Institute for Water Resources, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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PhD Student in Hydrology, Colorado School of Mines