Handouts:
This page contains files, spreadsheets, or other materials that are supplements
to the textbook, class material, and homeworks. Click on the title to download
the file. Some of these may require a password to open, which I will supply
in class.
Dissolved Oxygen Sag Curve Spreadsheet
Population projections for California;
Global population projections
American River 3-day Peak Flows
Colorado River Annual
Water Year Flows at Lees Ferry
San Francisco Tide Data,
1900-2014
Sample flood frequency calculation
HEC-RAS: Intro tutorial
Assigned readings and other useful references:
Alley et al., Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes, Science 310 (5747), 456, 2005.
Amadei, B., et al., A model for sustainable humanitarian engineering projects, Sustainability 2009(1):1087-1105, 2009
Ansar, A., et al., Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development.
Energy Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.069i, 2014
Barnett, T. and Pierce, D., Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate, PNAS 106(18):7334-7338, 2009
Boschmann and Gabriel, Urban sustainability and the LEED rating system:
case studies on the role of regional
characteristics and adaptive reuse in green
building in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, The Geography Journal 179(3), 2013.
Cayan et al., Climate change projections of sea level extremes
along the California coast, Climatic Change 87 (Suppl 1):S57–S73, 2008
Cloutier, Jambeck, and Scott, The Sustainable Neighborhoods for Happiness Index (SNHI): A metric for assessing a community's sustainability and potential influence on happiness, Ecological Indicators, 2014
Du et al., Life Cycle Analysis for Water and Wastewater Pipe Materials, J. Env. Engineering, 2003
Easterly, The white man's burden (excerpts), Penguin Press, 2006
Fulton, Cooley, and Gleick, Water Footprint, in The World's Water, V.8, Island Press, 2014.
Gleick, Water
in Crisis, 1993, excerpts on water use (irrigation, industrial, household)
Gleick, Water and Conflict, International Security 18(1):79-112, 1993.
Gleick, P., Basic Water Requirements for Human Activities:
Meeting Basic Needs, Water International 21: 83-92, 1996
Gleick,
Water in Crisis: Paths to Sustainable Water Use, Ecol. Appl. 8(3):571-579,
1998
Gleick, The War on Tap Water: An Exclusive Excerpt from "Bottled and Sold" (Island Press)
Gleick, The World's Water,
2004-2005 excerpts: data tables of water availability and use
Gleick, The millenium development goals for water: crucial objectives, inadequate commitments, in The World's Water,
2004-2005.
Gleick, Water and Terrorism, in The World's Water 2006-2007, Island Press, 2007.
Gleick, Water and Conflict, Events, Trands, and Analysis (2011-2012), in The World's Water, V.8, Island Press, 2014.
Graedel, T.E. and R.J. Klee, Getting serious about sustainability, Environ Sci. and Technol. 36(4):523-529, 2002
Hanemann et al., California water rights.
*Harding, B. L. et al., Impacts of a severe sustained drought on Colorado River water resources, Water resources bulletin 31(5):779-944, 1995.
Hoekstra, A.Y. and A. K. Chapagain, Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a
function of their consumption pattern,(2007) 21:35–48, 2007
Hoekstra, A.Y., Sustainable, efficient, and
equitable water use: the three
pillars under wise freshwater
allocation, Water, 1:31–40. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1000, 2014
Hough, Cities and
Natural Processes: A basis for sustainability, Routledge, 1995.
Hutson and Ickert, Sustainability in Water Supply, World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, 2012
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment (AR4) reports - Excerpts
Kaushal, S. S., et al., Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States, PNAS 102(38): 13517-13520, 2005.
*Kenney et al, Rethinking vulnerability on the Colorado River, J. Contemporary Water Research & Education 144:5-10, 2010.
Kramer, et al., The key to managing conflict and cooperation over water, A world of Science 11(1):4-12, 2013.
Lant,
C., Water resources sustainability: an ecological economics perspective, UCOWR
Water Resources Update 127:20-30, 2004.
Lofman et al., Water, Energy, and Environment Nexus: The California Experience, Water Resources Development 18(1):73–85, 2002.
Loubet, et al., Life cycle assessments of urban water systems:
A comparative analysis of selected peer-reviewed
literature, Water Research 67:187-202, 2014.
Mack EA, Wrase S, A Burgeoning
Crisis? A Nationwide Assessment of the
Geography of Water Affordability in the United
States. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169488. doi:10.1371/
journal.pone.0169488, 2017.
Marco, Tomás, Water and Sustainable Development:
challenges for civil engineering (abridged version), Water and Sustainable Development 3:54-67, 2015.
Marshall and
Toffel, 2005, Framing the Elusive Concept of Sustainability: A Sustainability
Hierarchy, Environmental Science & Technology 39, 673-682
Mays, L.W., Water sustainability of ancient civilizations in
mesoamerica and the American Southwest, Water Science & Technology 7(1):229–236, 2007
Mays, Water
Resources Sustainability, 2008 excerpts
Milly, P.C.D. et al.,
Stationarity is Dead: whither water management?, Science 319: 573-574, 2008
Mithraratne, N. and
R. Vale, Conventional and alternative water supply systems: a life cycle study, Int. J. of Environ. and Sustainable Dev. 6(2):136-146, 2007
Pacca, S.,
Impacts from decommissioning of hydroelectric dams: a life cycle perspective,
Climatic Change 84 (3-4):281-294, 2007
Palaniappan, M, Millenium Development Goals: charting progress and the way forward, in The World's Water,
2008-2009
Pimentel, D. et al., Will
limits of the earth's resources control human numbers?, Env., Dev., and Sustainability 1:19-39, 1999
Prendergast, J. Engineering Sustainable Development, Civil Engineering 63(10):39-42, 1993
Sandekian, R. et al., Engineering for poverty reduction: challenges and opportunities, 2007
Sawyers, G., Water Supply and Sustainability - Water Rights Primer, 2005, accessed at Agricultural Issues Center,
University of California, Davis.
Schneider, J. et al., Where is 'Community'?: Engineering education and sustainable community development, European J. of Engineering Education 33(3):307 - 319, 2008.
SCVWD, From Watts to Water, 2007.
Smith
and Zhang, How do we know it's sustainable?, Water environment & technology
16(6):36-41, 2004
Smolan, Erwitt, Blue Planet Run, The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World, Earth Aware Editions, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
Spang, E.S. et al., Multiple metrics for quantifying the intensity of water consumption of energy production, Environ. Res. Lett. 9 105003, 2014
Strauss, B. H., et al., Carbon choices determine US cities committed to futures below sea level, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015.
Tarlock, the future of prior appropriation in the new west, Nat. Res. J, 2001.
Tebaldi C, Strauss B H and Zervas C E, Modelling sea level rise impacts on storm surges along US coasts Environ. Res. Lett. 7 014032, 2012.
UN Sustainable Development Solution Network (SDSN), Indicators for
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Draft, 2014
UN Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Draft, 2015
UN World Water Development Report, Water for a Sustainable World, 2015
U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy demands on water, 2006
U.S. EPA, How We Use Water In These United States, 2004
U.S. EPA, Life
Cycle Assessment: Principles and Practice, 2006
U.S. Green Building Council, LEED new construction excerpts for water, 2009
U.S. Green Building Council, LEED for neighborhoods excerpts for water, 2009
U.S. Green Building Council, LEEDv4 for Building Design and Construction, 2017
U.S.G.S., Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005, Circular 1344, 2009.
Wada,
Y., Non-sustainable
groundwater
sustaining
irrigation,
Global Water Forum
Discussion
Paper
1205, 2012.
WEF: The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Water Education Foundation, 2015.
Western Water Made Simple - excerpts, Island Press, 1987
Wilkinson, Water-Energy in California
Wouters, P., The Relevance and Role of Water Law in the Sustainable Development of Freshwater -- From "Hydrosovereignty" to "Hydrosolidarity". Water Int. 25:202 - 207, 2000
Wurbs and James, Water-Resources Engineering, Water Law excerpts, 2002, Prentice-Hall.
Yoffe et al., Geography of international water conflict and cooperation: Data sets and applications, Water. Res. Research 40(W05S04), 2004.
*The Harding et al and Kenney et al articles should be read together.
