Abstract: The recently launched California water price index (NASDAQ: NQH2O) and corresponding futures market provide an opportunity for water users to hedge against seasonal drought risk. While the volume of futures trading remains ...

Abstract: Dynamic planning of water infrastructure requires identifying signals for adaptation, including measures of system performance linked to vulnerabilities. However, it remains a challenge to detect projected changes in ...

Abstract: Urban groundwater supply planning is often achieved at the regional scale while the effects of aquifer exploitation are experienced on a local scale. In the Mexico City metropolitan area, land and water use changes have ...

Abstract: Long-term snowpack decline is among the best-understood impacts of climate change on water resources systems. This trend has been observed for decades and is projected to continue even in climate projections in which total ...

Abstract: Foundation and anchorage systems must achieve their performance requirements under a wide variety of loading conditions while also minimizing material use (i.e., steel and concrete) to improve the sustainability of ...

Abstract: Water systems planners have long recognized the need for robust solutions capable of withstanding deviations from the conditions for which they were designed. Robustness analyses have shifted from expected utility to ...