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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