Brian E. Gray

California Water Management Challenges

This paper summarizes a comprehensive examination of the current and likely future of California’s water resource system, as well as promising long-term directions for policy and management. Longterm challenges include declining state and federal resources, climate changes, population growth, and continued disruptions of native ecosystems. Improvements in technology and in local water management capabilities are likely to be helpful, but changes in state and federal regulatory and management institutions and policies will be needed to manage such changes and opportunities well. The work was done by a team of distinguished scholars from economics, engineering, law, biology, and geology.