On Water

UCD Professors Lund and Howitt comment on Delta monitoring study ...

A new multidisciplinary modeling effort concludes that certain tracts of land in California's Sacramento Delta should be abandoned the next time they flood, and that major California water-supply inlets in the area should be rerouted. The study indicates the kind of land-preservation and infrastructure triage that will become increasingly necessary in the face of rising sea levels and climate change.

View the complete MIT Technology Review article:
A Strategy for Coping with Climate Change: Amid rising seas, a California modeling effort recommends abandoning land tracts in the Sacramento Delta.
MIT Technology Review / by David Talbot