Berkeley, Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00 PM Annotations from Muller, M., Biswas, A., Martin-Hurtado, R. & Tortajada, C. 2015, “Built infrastructure is essential”, Science, vol. 349, no. 6248, pp. 585-586. Muller et al (2015) interestingly challenged promoted benefits North to South of green-infrastructure in fast developing countries, for water and energy development, in contrast to pragmatic effects that […]
Category: Water Infrastructure
Walking tours on UC Berkeley Campus for River and Water Management Enthusiasts
Berkeley, Monday, September 3, 2018 4:35 PM While it is likely that I will come back to write at the end of the day as usual. I want to drop here few links, which I would need for my coming plans later today. I also would say that every change to walk around is joyful, […]
Dams and reduction of water storage capacity
Excerpt from the description of a colloquium that I am organizing on Water Infrastructure: There are 59,000 dams in the world; 1,400 in the state of California alone. While these dams provide fundamental services, such as irrigation (36% of the dams), hydropower (17%), water supply (15%), flood control (13%), recreation (8%), and the remaining part […]
