Aquafornia’s Water Word of the Week from sister site Aquapedia is Flood Management, the focus of a Foundation tour May 14-15. Seats are still available.

Aquapedia is a vetted, online water encyclopedia that features more than 200 definitions on water terms from A to Z, bios about historical water people, videos, photos, a directory of water interests, and a Useful Acronyms section.

According to an excerpt from Aquapedia’s Flood Management entry, “With the anticipated sea level rise and other impacts of a changing climate, particularly heavy winter rains, flood management is increasingly critical in California. Compounding the issue are man-made flood hazards such as levee stability.” The entry also includes these sections: Flood Management Issues, Flood Management Infrastructure, Flood Mitigation Efforts and Local Flood Management Efforts.

Entries in Aquapedia also have references for digging deeper into a subject. For further Flood Management studies, check out these Foundation resources: “Layperson’s Guide to Flood Management,” “Levees and Flood Protections: A Shared Responsibility, Western Water, May/June 2012,” “Are We Keeping Up With Water Infrastructure Needs? Western Water, Jan./Feb. 2012,” and “Plausible and Inevitable: The ARkStorm Scenario, Western Water, March/April 2011.” “Overcoming the Deluge: California’s Plan for Managing Floods” is a DVD released by the Foundation. From Project Wet is “Kids: Discover Floods.”