Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Podcast
1) Levee Decisions and Sustainability for the Delta
Robyn Suddeth, a graduate student in the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, outlines the major factors that make levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta landscape susceptible to future floodin...Show More
2) Policy and Regulatory Challenges for the Delta
Ellen Hanak, of the Public Policy Institute of California, reviews several governance and regulatory challenges for the management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. She takes into account the chang...Show More
3) Economic Effects on Ag from Water Export Salinity
Soil salinity has been a problem for agriculture in California's southern Central Valley for decades. Since the 1950s, the Delta has been a major source of surface water for the region, but salinity i...Show More
4) Decision Analysis of Delta Strategies
What is the best decision for managing water exports in the Delta? Jay Lund asks. This presentation looks at four strategies and how they may affect environmental sustainability and reliable water sup...Show More
5) Delta Drinking Water Quality and Treatment Costs
This presentation by Wei-Hsiang Chen from the UC Davis John Muir Institute for the Environment explores the current and long-term effects of Delta export water quality on drinking water treatment cost...Show More
6) Peripheral Canal Design and Implementation Options
Lund discusses recent policy and technical discussions that have begun to revisit the idea of building a peripheral canal to divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Delta and deliver it...Show More
7) Economic Costs and Adaptations for Alternative Delta Regulations
Water exports from the southern Delta to users in the Bay Area and Southern California have become a central concern for the environmental health of the Delta, due to the dramatic decline of numerous ...Show More
8) Delta Hydrodynamics and Water Salinity with Future Conditions
William Fleenor, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, presents an initial assessment of the salinity implications of four strategies for managing delta water exports. He also explores the impacts o...Show More
9) Expert Survey on the Viability of Delta Fish Populations
This presentation provides a report on the collective views of 39 experts on Delta fish and ecology regarding the likely responses of key species to different modes of water management in the Delta. T...Show More
10) The Future of the Delta Ecosystem and its Fish
Peter Moyle and William Bennett, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, address four basic questions about fish in their role as major drivers of ecosystem-related policy in the Delta: 1) what specie...Show More