Events
Events
Best Management Practices for California Groundwater Management
November 18, 2011
The Best Management Practices for California Groundwater Management Workshop convened a small, select group of groundwater managers and experts to examine best practices in local groundwater management in California. Read More >
California Water Data
November 4, 2011
This small invitational dialogue and workshop brought together a select group of researchers, policymakers and water managers to frame a viable, cost-effective approach to California’s water data needs. Read More >
Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Workshop
October 16-19, 2011
The Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Workshop will examine the best practices in law and policy for integrated groundwater management in the U.S. and Australia. The workshop is part of a broader Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Program, sponsored by the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University and the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Read More >
Water and the California Economy
September 23, 2011
This goal of this workshop was to create a strategy for engaging California’s business community in issues related to California water resources. Read More >
Water in the West Salon
October 7, 2010
The Oct. 7 event was a follow-up to the March 2010 water salon at Stanford that provided an overview of the Freshwater Research Initiative being launched by the Woods Institute. The freshwater initiative encompasses three separate strategic research collaborations, including Water in the West, that will address major freshwater challenges facing the world. Read More >
Wastewater as a Resource
May 21, 2010
The Woods Institute hosted a dialogue on resource recovery from wastewater - specifically, how systems for wastewater management and water reuse should be defined for the San Francisco Bay Area in the 2020s. The dialogue brought together consultants, researchers, water quality agencies and government and industry leaders to inform planning efforts and align research with those efforts. Participants at the dialogue developed a "Wastewater as a Resource" vision statement for the Bay Area. Read More >
Economic and Policy Implications of Water Banking
May 21-22, 2009
On May 21-22, 2009, the Woods Institute for the Environment sponsored a workshop in Sacramento, Calif., on the economic and policy implications of water banking - a conservation strategy based on the voluntary purchase and sale of water supplies. The workshop served as a launching point for a long-term project to evaluate the costs, benefits and challenges of water banking, with a focus on California and the Kern River Fan aquifer in particular. Interest in water banking is growing, so an assessment of the replicability of the Kern Fan system is due. Read More >
Aquifer Depletion and Salinization
December 4-5, 2008
This Uncommon Dialogue evaluated potential solutions for and novel approaches to the sustainable use of aquifers. Our goal is to examine global challenges to groundwater depletion and salinization, with the aim of developing a research agenda that contributes to finding practical solutions to sustainable groundwater use. Read More >
Water in the West Workshops
March/November 2008
Water regimes in the American West, largely the products of 19th-century legal doctrines and 20th-century engineering, are rapidly becoming obsolete. The objective of the Water in the West Dialogue is to foster collaborations between university researchers and water management, water users, and water- policy decision makers that lead to a policy-relevant, multidisciplinary research program appropriate for the next century of development.
As a result of our discussions, the Stanford Freshwater Faculty leadership team has identified four topics that seem to hold the most promise for future work:
- Balancing environmental and other claims on water supplies
- Redesigning infrastructure for distribution, appropriate use, and energy efficiency
- Managing water resources in the case of climate change
- Best institutional practices