Sustaining Integrated Portfolios For Managing Water In California
Recently Governor Newsom issued a call for a state portfolio of actions to manage water under rapidly changing climate and other conditions. Portfolio approaches attempt to integrate and balance a variety of actions (supply and demand management, surface water and aquifers) for single purposes (water supply, floods, safe drinking water) and often for multiple benefits, involving multiple interests. A previous essay reviewed the successes and limitations of portfolio approaches to water management in California