Blog: Floodplain restoration: In response to climate change, California is looking to nature’s patterns
Water policy in the Western U.S. has always been a contentious issue. Changes in water management, however, are slowly happening. For example, an increasing number of dams are being deconstructed where environmental, safety, and Indigenous-cultural impacts outweigh the benefits of hydropower, flood control, irrigation, or recreation…. More recently, the issues of water wastage and flood control from dam removal are being offset by allowing rivers to return to more natural flow patterns.