In the first two decades of the 21st century, 79 global big cities have suffered extensively
from drought disaster. Meanwhile, climate change has magnified urban drought in both …

Millions of Californians access drinking water via domestic wells, which are vulnerable to
drought and unsustainable groundwater management. Groundwater overdraft and the …

Water use practices and conservation are the result of complex sociotechnical interactions of
political, economic, hydroclimatic, and social factors. While the drivers of water demand …

Urban vegetation mitigates elevated temperatures in cities. Drought presents an important
challenge to urban heat mitigation as prolonged dry periods cause reduced …

Water utilities incentivize turf replacement to promote water conservation, but the effects of
such programs have received limited evaluations. In 2014, the Metropolitan Water District of …

Water pricing policies have a large and still relatively untapped potential to foster more
efficient management of water resources in scarcity situations. This work contributes a …

The food-energy-water (FEW) nexus concept has emerged as a powerful approach to
address the social and environmental challenges created by land and climate change. We …

Policy responses to the challenges associated with environmental change, including more
frequent and severe climatic events, have interlinked environmental and social impacts …

After years of crippling drought, California experienced a barrage of intense atmospheric
river storms starting from late 2022 and continuing into early 2023 after so many years of …

This paper deploys a framed field experiment and uses high-frequency data to evaluate the
short-and long-run effects of three behavioral interventions on residential water use during …