Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta.

摘要

Given the complex backdrop surrounding the California delta and the importance of this water source to human and ecosystem needs, Congress and the Departments of the Interior and Commerce asked the National Research Council (NRC) to review the scientific basis of actions that have been taken and that could be taken for California to achieve simultaneously both an environmentally sustainable bay-delta ecosystem and a reliable water supply. To balance the need to inform near-term decisions with the need for an integrated view of water and environmental management challenges over the longer term, the National Research Council addressed this task over a term of more than 2 years.