Episode 27: Felicia Marcus
What is California?
English - April 28, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History interviews california Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Felicia Marcus is a visiting fellow with the Water in the West program at Stanford University, as well as a founding member of the Water Policy Group.
I think there was a bit of denial where folks felt like they had planned for a three-year drought, and they were fine. It’s like, “Dude–we could have a 10- or a 40-year drought.” So that’s not good enough. We kind of [need] to amp it up.
Notes and references from this episode:
Water in the West program - Stanford University
Water Policy Group - home page
Jonathan Gold - LA Times archive
Judge Harry Pregerson - Wikipedia biography
California Water Action Plan - State of California
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) - State of California
“California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk,” by Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press
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