Water Archives - Bay Area Council

New Resilience Challenge Video Highlights Launch of Round 2

Sep 4 2020

Following up the wild success of our 2020 California Resilience Challenge, the Bay Area Council Foundation has completed production on a new video ...

California Resilience Challenge Spotlight Series: Resilient Communities at Clear Lake

Aug 7 2020

This is one in a series of profiles of the 12 winners of the California Resilience Challenge, a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative of the Bay A...

California Resilience Challenge Spotlight: Transforming Schools Into Resilience Centers

Jul 17 2020

This is one in a series of profiles of the 12 winners of the California Resilience Challenge, a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative of the Bay A...

California Resilience Challenge Announces Statewide Competition for Climate Adaptation Projects

Dec 2 2019

The Bay Area Council today launched the official request for proposals for the “California Resilience Challenge” — a $2 million statewide com...

Protecting the Bay Against Rising Seas Means Amending Old Approaches

Oct 11 2019

After four years of research, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission made an informed and unanimous vote to amend 50-year-old anti-fill le...

Bay Area Council Weighs In on State Water Resilience

Oct 4 2019

The Bay Area Council’s Water and Climate Resilience Committee has submitted eight key recommendations for Gov. Newsom’s Water Resilience P...

Better Managing Forests for Climate Resilience

Sep 27 2019

The Bay Area Council Water & Climate Resilience Committee met Thursday to discuss managing California’s forests and the Governor’s ...

Study on Tearing Down Hetch Hetchy Misses the Mark

Aug 2 2019

A new study sponsored by a group determined to tear down the Bay Area’s leading clean water and power infrastructure tried to make an economic ca...

Senate Clean Drinking Water Proposal Gets Councils Nod

May 24 2019

The Bay Area Council Water and Climate Resilience Committee met on Tuesday to vet competing proposals in the state Assembly and Senate to solve Cal...

Study Will Explore Bringing Ferries to Berkeley

May 10 2019

The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) on Thursday (May 9) approved moving forward with a study to explore the feasibility of expandin...

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