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Category: Water Quantity
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With this post I'm introducing a new gimic … a "Throwback: [insert day of the week]" post where we recycle content from the old days. The motivation is that [1] environmental problems haven't gone away, [2] we provide the same solutions over and over again, [3] we've already said it and no one listened so…
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Growing up on the east coast, and now living in the mid-west, water quantity has never been an issue for me or my work (water quality is an issue, but quantity, less so). APPARENTLY* water quantity is an issue in the western U.S. So how do you solve the common resource problem when the water…
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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The Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (my department) in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (my college) at The Ohio State University (my university) is hiring for four new faculty positions–and I am not ashamed of taking advantage of this blog to promote the positions. If you have (or are close…
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Tim's "ballsy math" is "immortalized": The last time we took on the subject of balls, it was to consider the physics of New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady's deflated balls. Today, we're going back to the ball pit because Los Angeles' city government is spending $34.5 million to dump up to 96 million plastic balls into…
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Matt Kahn: Adam Nagourney appears to be an adherent of the ideas of the Club of Rome. In his NY Times front page piece today, he worries that California cities that encourage growth are exacerbating the "water crisis" by increasing demand during a drought that is likely to persist. What is the fallacy in his…
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Update on L.A.'s balls: The benefits are clear, Professor Pradhanang insists, as Los Angeles strives to retain as much water as possible amid the drought. Like other urban cities, such as New York, they also face a constant battle to keep wildlife off the clean water reservoirs, as their feces is the real source of…
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On Thursday I used 'blog-quality research to come up with a 'blog-park' figure for how much water might be saved by Los Angeles plan to use millions of ping pong balls to cover the local reservoir to prevent evaporation. Using rough numbers from swimming pool evaporation, I came up with an estimate of 311 million…
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Facing a long-term water crisis, officials concerned with preserving a reservoir in Los Angeles hatched a plan: They would combat four years of drought with 96 million plastic balls. On Monday, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles arrived at the 175-acre Los Angeles Reservoir to release the final installment of the project: 20,000 small black…
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Shouldn't the headline be more like green ($) is the new green? Perhaps it’s a sign of how dire the drought has gotten in California: Water-saving projects long on the drawing board, despite being cheap and easy, are finally coming to campuses. Last month at the University of California at Davis, workers rerouted recycled sewer…
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