Less water could sustain more Californians if we make every drop count
As a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, as well as director of a National Science Foundation center to re-invent urban water supply (known as ReNUWIt), Richard Luthy he has spent decades studying the state’s metropolitan areas. In a new journal article, he argues that California cities can no longer rely on their three traditional water-coping strategies: over-drafting groundwater, depleting streams and importing water from far away.