Water in the West
The Program on Water in the West — a collaboration between the Bill Lane Center for the American West and Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University — intends to help transform water systems built in the last century so that they are sustainable in the future, economically, ecologically, politically, and institutionally.
The program builds on Stanford’s strengths in interdisciplinary research, ability to convene diverse parties for open and constructive discussions on neutral ground, and our standing as an objective source of reliable information and analysis.
Stanford faculty, researchers, and students are focusing on three key areas in which we have the greatest potential to help promote effective water reform:
- Integrated groundwater and surface water management
- Performance measurement and information systems for sustainable water management
- Water recycling
Water in the West involves faculty, researchers, and students in law, economics, civil and environmental engineering, history, biology, business management, organizational behavior, computer science, data visualization, and communication. We also regularly involve partners from government, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, as well as other universities.
Project Website
News and Recent Posts
- Adapting to Dry Times: The Role of the Media in an Increasingly Arid West
- As Drought Heats Up, a Switch from 'Paper Water' to 'Wet Water'
- Denver Magazine's Water Story Wins Western Environmental Journalism Prize
- Echoes of the Western U.S. in Australia, and Vice-Versa, in Water and Culture
- Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure
- The Salton Sea: Natural or Not?
- Touring the "River of a Million Horsepower"
- US-Mexico Water Conference Finds Opportunities for Cross-Border Collaboration
- Using Comics to Explain Complex Water Issues
- Visualizing California's Water
- Water in the West Website Relaunches with New Features, Contributors
- Water in the West Weighs Future of California's Groundwater
- Where Has All the Water Gone? A dozen sophomores go deep into the Grand Canyon to examine the river that waters the West.
Related
- "Deep Dive: Drought" at the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival
- All Over the Map: The Diversity of Western Water Plans
- California Drought a Sign of What's to Come
- California’s Biggest Water Source Shrouded in Secrecy
- Comparing the Cost of Water
- EcoWest Visualizations: Drought
- EcoWest Visualizations: Rain and Snow
- Envisioning California's Delta As It Was
- Farming Water
- How Conservation and Groundwater Management Can Gird California for a Drier Era
- Interview with Pat Mulroy, Southern Nevada Water Authority
- Stanford panel lays out drought-survival strategies
- The California Drought: Causes, Context and Responses
- Understanding California's Groundwater
- Understanding California's Groundwater
- Water in the West: An Overview
- Water Talk: Can cities keep growing in the desert?
