|
The California Water Institute is hosting a Water Book Club available to staff, students, faculty and the community. The book chosen for the fall semester is “The Water Problem: Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States” by Pat Mulroy.
Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority for many years, the lead negotiator on the Colorado River for the State of Nevada and a Brookings fellow, has gathered several practitioners and scholars to show us why we face a crisis caused by climate change and what we can do to alleviate it.
The book takes us to Miami and the problem of rising oceans fouling freshwater reservoirs; Kansas and Nebraska, where intensive farming is draining age-old aquifers; and to the Southwest United States, where growing populations are creating enormous stresses on the already strained Colorado River. Mulroy and her contributors explore not just the problems, but also what we can do now to put in place measures to deal with a very real crisis.
Date: Wednesdays, Sept. 18 - Nov. 6
Time: Noon - 12:50 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Sign up for the Water Book Club.
|
