Groundwater Storage in the Los Angeles Coastal Plain

摘要

THE ABILITY TO STORE AND USE GROUNDWATER IS critical to resilience in Southern California. Perhaps nowhere is this truer than in the greater Los Angeles area, including the groundwater basins where Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom did her fieldwork in the 1950s and 1960s, establishing the theory of cooperative management of common pool resources. The more recent story of these groundwater basins is the story of frustration and, eventually, solutions for better managing critical groundwater resources.