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PPIC releases new reports on water, climate change, and planning

Posted by: Maven on July 8, 2009 at 7:44 am

From the Public Policy Institute, three new reports this morning, beginning with California Water:

California faces growing water management challenges—including growth in demand, climate change, and instability in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Potential solutions will involve difficult and sometimes costly tradeoffs.

This publication is part of a briefing kit that highlights our state’s most pressing long-term policy challenges in eight key areas:

* budget
* climate change
* economy
* education
* population
* transportation
* water
* workforce

Click here to download this 6-page pdf file.

The second report is on climate change:

California is charting new territory with its plans to reduce emissions. But the state also needs to prepare for the effects of climate change that’s already coming.

This publication is part of a briefing kit that highlights our state’s most pressing long-term policy challenges in eight key areas:

* budget
* climate change
* economy
* education
* population
* transportation
* water
* workforce

Click here to download this 6-page pdf file.

The third report deals with planning issues:

California’s current economic and fiscal realities make nonpartisan, objective information on the state’s future challenges all the more critical. Understandably, the search is on for immediate solutions to the unprecedented crises we face today. But if the present crises make policymakers shelve long-term planning, the result may be an even more uncertain future for our state.

This briefing kit highlights California’s most pressing long-term policy challenges in eight key areas:

* budget
* climate change
* economy
* education
* population
* transportation
* water
* workforce

Click here to download the 6-page pdf file.

July 8, 2009 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply, Development & Population, General Water Issues

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