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March 14, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
Electric utilities are seeking a new power mix, as shifts in precipitation diminish the role that dams have long played for western states.
March 11, 2017 | Report
Anakaren Cervantes, Ryan Gaertner, Kaya McRuer, Alex Robinson, Caleb Smith
The following memorandum presents five key potential financing strategies for a north-south bicycle/pedestrian path connecting the member cities of the Managers’ Mobility Partnership or MMP (Redwood City, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Mountain View).
March 3, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
In the Southwest and beyond, irrigation technology and other steps such as planting 'cover crops' to enrich the soil are making a difference.
March 1, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
The second article in a series on solving water challenges in the American West.
February 23, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
With climate change affecting water supplies already strained by urban growth, states in the Colorado River basin are being forced to innovate and adapt.
February 15, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
Safety concerns at the Oroville Dam center on engineering and maintenance. But dams also face new challenges in managing water in an era when rains can be heavier, and less precipitation is falling as snow.
February 10, 2017 | Video
At the Knight-Risser Prize Symposium on Jan. 25, Ian James, an environment reporter for the Palm Springs based Desert Sun, talked about a growing crisis in groundwater supplies.
February 10, 2017 | Video
Water may be one of the most critical environmental issues for reporters to cover in years to come, said western water experts and journalists at the 2017 Knight-Risser Prize Symposium at Stanford University.
January 19, 2017 | Article
Tammy Frisby
For the fourth January in a row, we asked Californians to reflect on the state’s government, public policy, and politics, and what they think a Trump administration could mean for the Golden State.
January 19, 2017 | Audio
Bruce Cain and the Hoover Institution's Bill Whalen look at the contentious relationship between Donald Trump and California and analyze a Hoover Golden State Poll that gauged Californians’ attitudes toward various aspects of the Trump agenda.
December 22, 2016 | Book
This analysis of governmental roles in water markets, alongside qualitative studies of California and Spain, offers valuable guidance to understand environmental markets and the challenges presented by water management in drought-prone regions.
December 14, 2016 | Video
December 11, 2016 | Report
Casey Danielson, Matthew Decker, Sarah Hirshorn, Gabriella Johnson, Mark Verso
This report proposes two alternatives for a North-South (N-S) central corridor bikeway in the Mid-Peninsula area that promotes cross-community integration and increased bike mode share.
November 10, 2016 | Video
What does this historic election mean for democratic norms and institutions in America? A post-election panel discussion with Stanford political scientists and legal analysts.
November 1, 2016 | Image Gallery
A tour of the pop-up exhibit from the Jack London Symposium – items from the Anderson family collection documenting the author's fascinating life.
October 19, 2016 | Image Gallery
London's reporting and photojournalism took him from the slums of East London to the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War, and he provided some of the first eyewitness reporting on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
October 15, 2016 | Video
Scholars talked about the life and legacy of novelist, journalist, photographer, and social activist Jack London. Video of the symposium at Stanford held Sept. 19, 2016.
October 14, 2016 | Video
Scholars working with Water in the West discussed their latest research on groundwater and the implications for the future of California’s water.
September 6, 2016 | Book
Mary Ellen Hannibal, Center Media Fellow
Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning science writer. Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots.
June 29, 2016 | Report
Tara Moran, Amanda Cravens, Janet Martinez, Leon Szeptycki
Historic groundwater legislation has brought California to the cusp of a new era of water management. Meeting the law’s goals will require overcoming stubborn systemic obstacles, says this new report by Water in the West.
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