Mar 13, 2012 – Increasing System Yield in the Face of Uncertainty – Protecting the Future Beneficial Use of Water
Sacramento Chapter, Environmental & Water Resources Institute American Society of Civil Engineers In coordination with WateReuse California Annual Conference
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street, Sacramento, California
The EWRI/ASCE 2012 Symposium (Back to the Future Program and sign up-1 (1)) will describe some of the key threats to natural yield depletion and offer what some leading water agencies here in California and around the world are doing to protect their existing water portfolios from a continuous array of threats. The importance of yield and the need for enhancement is vital to all water users since without it, consumptive uses, environmental flows, hydropower generation, recreational flows, etc. will all be limited to what each can effectively serve. Delta issues are clearly secondary to system yield. Upstream source areas, or area-of-origin watersheds and those water purveyors managing those systems, therefore, will play an increasingly important role in California water resources management as the threat of climate change-induced flow changes begin to unfold.
