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Installing solar panels over California's canals could yield water, land, air and climate payoffs

  • Written by Roger Bales, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
imageThe California Aqueduct, which carries water more than 400 miles south from the Sierra Nevada, splits as it enters Southern California at the border of Kern and Los Angeles counties.California DWR

Climate change and water scarcity are front and center in the western U.S. The region’s climate is warming, a severe multi-year drought is underway...

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