Publications & Reports

2026

Porse, Erik, Jonathan Kaplan, Harold Leverenz, Caitlyn Leo, Dakota Keene, David Babchanik, Erick Eschker, Patrick Maloney, Khalil Lezzaik, John Johnston, Joanna Solins, and Mary Cadenasso. (2026). “Forecasting Urban Water Demand and Effects on Wastewater Management: An Integrated Systems Approach with Uncertainty.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 152(9). 

Courtney Crosson, Stephanie Pincetl, Caroline Scruggs, Neha Gupta, Rashi Bhushan, Sybil Sharvelle, Erik Porse, Andrea Achilli, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Gregory Pierce, Dominic L. Boccelli, Charles P. Gerba, Melinda Morgan, Tzahi Y. Cath, Bruce Thomson, Steve Baule, Steve Glass, Mark Gold, James MacAdam, Luke Cole, Mead Mier, Catlow Shipek, and Thomas Meixner. (2025). “Acceptance of a Net Zero Urban Water Future: Challenges and Strategies for a Sociotechnical Shift of Water Systems”. Frontiers in Water. 7(25)

 Rosenberg, David, Anabelle Myers, Reza Morovati, Collins Stephenson, Hadia Akbar, and Erik Porse. "Reasons We Have Hope for Consensus on Colorado River Management”. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. (2026). 152(1).

 Porse, Erik, Greg Pierce, Faith Kearns, Edith de Guzman, Camilo Salcedo, and Hope Hauptman. "Adapting urban water supply infrastructure and policies for wildfire in the 21st Century.” Environmental Research Letters.(2025). October 2025.

 Prakash, Divya. Erik Porse, Mehdi Nemati, Rachel Shellabarger, and Ariel Dinar. "Tracking Nitrogen Policy and Practices: Lessons from California’s Central Valley Growers.” Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE Update. (2025). Vol. 29, No. 1. Sept/Oct 2025.

 Prakash, Divya. Erik Porse, Mehdi Nemati, Rachel Shellabarger, and Ariel Dinar. "Adoption Patters of On-Farm Nutrient Management Practices and Nitrogen Application Rates in California’s Central Valley.” California Agriculture. (2025). October 2025. 79(2).

 Porse, Erik. Jonathan Kaplan, Khalil Lezzaik, David Babchanik, and Patrick Maloney. "Quantifying Replacement Rates from Indoor and Outdoor Urban Water Conservation Rebates in California.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association. (2025). Volume 61, Issue 2. April 2025. 

 Porse, Erik. "Fifty Years of Water Research Projects in California: Keyword Analysis and Qualitative Coding with Natural Language Processing (NLP) Models.” (2025). Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education. Volume 182, Issue 1.

 Gross, Marie-Philine, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Erik Porse, and Andrea Cominola. "CaRDS-the statewide California Residential water Demand and Supply open dataset." Scientific Data 11, no. 1 (2024): 632.

 Courtney Crosson, Stephanie Pincetl, Caroline Scruggs, Neha Gupta, Rashi Bhushan, Sybil Sharvelle, Erik Porse, Andrea Achilli, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Gregory Pierce, Dominic L. Boccelli, Charles P. Gerba, Melinda Morgan, Tzahi Y. Cath, Bruce Thomson, Steve Baule, Steve Glass, Mark Gold, James MacAdam, Luke Cole, Mead Mier, Catlow Shipek, and Thomas Meixner. (2024). “Advancing a Net Zero Urban Water Future in the United States Southwest: Governance and Policy Challenges and Future Needs.” (2024). Environmental Science and Technology Water. Volume 5, 1966–1977.

Qing Shuang, Ring Ting Zhao, and Porse, Erik C., “Cluster Analysis and Predictive Modeling of Urban Water Distribution System Leaks with Socioeconomic and Engineering Factors.” (2023). Water Resources Management. Volume 38. Pages 385-400.

 Porse, Erik C., “Systems analysis of metropolitan-scale reuse with effects on water supply resilience and water quality.” (2023). Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems. 1-23.

 Porse, Erik, Jonathan Kaplan, Harold Leverenz, Caitlyn Leo, Dakota Keene, David Babchanik, Erick Eschker, and Jonathan Kaplan. (2023). “Adapting Wastewater Systems in California for Water Conservation and Climate Change.” Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 

2025

Adapting Urban Water Supply Infrastructure and Policies for Wildfire in the 21st Century 
Erik Porse, Greg Pierce, Faith Kearns, Edith de Guzman, Camilo Salcedo, and Hope Hauptman · Environmental Research Letters

Adoption Patterns of On-Farm Nutrient Management Practices and Nitrogen Application Rates in California’s Central Valley 
Divya Prakash, Erik Porse, Mehdi Nemati, Rachel Shellabarger, and Ariel Dinar · California Agriculture, 79(2)

Quantifying Replacement Rates from Indoor and Outdoor Urban Water Conservation Rebates in California 
Erik Porse, Jonathan Kaplan, Khalil Lezzaik, David Babchanik, and Patrick Maloney · Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 61(2)

Fifty Years of Water Research Projects in California: Keyword Analysis and Qualitative Coding with Natural Language Processing Models 
Erik Porse · Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 182(1)

David Rosenberg, Anabelle Myers, Reza Morovati, Collins Stephenson, Hadia Akbar, and Erik Porse (2025) Reasons We Have Hope for Consensus on Colorado River Management  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

2024

Advancing a Net Zero Urban Water Future in the United States Southwest: Governance and Policy Challenges and Future Needs 

CaRDS — The Statewide California Residential Water Demand and Supply Open Dataset 

2023

Cluster Analysis and Predictive Modeling of Urban Water Distribution System Leaks with Socioeconomic and Engineering Factors 

Systems Analysis of Metropolitan-Scale Reuse with Effects on Water Supply Resilience and Water Quality