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Water Quality, Quantity and Security
Focal Areas
- Safe & secure drinking water
- Safe & secure surface water
- Safe & sustainable groundwater
- Holistic water management
Grand Challenges
The Water SI panel support this work by bringing a broad spectrum of expertise and practice and helps identify key emerging issues including:
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Drought preparedness
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Sustainable groundwater management
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Options for increasing use of low quality water in agricultural and urban environments
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Lessen impacts from nitrogen use in agricultural and urban environments
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Water management strategies in response to climate change and their impacts on water supply, water quality and cropping patterns
Impact
See UC Delivers for examples of impact in the Water SI.
UC ANR members can share the impact of their work - it's easy. Click here to find out how.
Funding
See funding opportunities listed with UC ANR Contracts & Grants
See Opportunity & Matching grants (small grants to help with urgent time-sensitive needs)
Water-related Blog
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Economic policy approaches to water allocation in California
Dr. Ellen Bruno is an Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in quantitative policy analysis at UC Berkeley. Her research evaluates the...
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Rising to the challenges of 21st century water management in Los Angeles
Early in its development, Los Angeles bound itself tightly to the rest of California by securing a water supply piped in from locations across the...
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Documenting California drought as an undocumented researcher
Evelyn Valdez-Ward is a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine where her research focuses on...
