Here's what a biologist I know thinks about this topic:1. Build several large holes for capturing rainwater/aquifer rejuvenation2. Line all streets, esp poor parts of towns, with trees3. Riparian habitat rehab4. All homes should have rain barrels 5. Floodplains should be expanded 6. Move out of stateAs for widening rivers. Not doable in California. Too many homes and farms will be lost. But, they can buy farmland (the delta is full of delta “islands”) and use those as ground recharging/collecting basins. Some of these delta farmland islands are already full of water year round. So, at least in norcal’s delta, aquifer recharge is already being done but definitely could be expanded. The problem is the red southern part of the Central Valley. That’s where these aquifer recharge places should really be built. But they’re not being built there. They’re still fully relying on dams from way up north for their crops that are water intensive and they’ve sucked dry their aquifers so much that farmlands down there are subsiding 15 feet or more. Should note here that farms, not cities, are the main users of surface and ground water in CA. Red state counties are less likely to agree to fallow their lands for the good of the state. Just not gonna happen. But, writings on the wall.

Here's what a biologist I know thinks about this topic:1. Build several large holes for capturing rainwater/aquifer rejuvenation2. Line all streets, esp poor parts of towns, with trees3. Riparian habitat rehab4. All homes should have rain barrels 5. Floodplains should be expanded 6. Move out of stateAs for widening rivers. Not doable in California. Too many homes and farms will be lost. But, they can buy farmland (the delta is full of delta “islands”) and use those as ground recharging/collecting basins. Some of these delta farmland islands are already full of water year round. So, at least in norcal’s delta, aquifer recharge is already being done but definitely could be expanded. The problem is the red southern part of the Central Valley. That’s where these aquifer recharge places should really be built. But they’re not being built there. They’re still fully relying on dams from way up north for their crops that are water intensive and they’ve sucked dry their aquifers so much that farmlands down there are subsiding 15 feet or more. Should note here that farms, not cities, are the main users of surface and ground water in CA. Red state counties are less likely to agree to fallow their lands for the good of the state. Just not gonna happen. But, writings on the wall.

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