Big infrastructure and/as flexibility: The Sites Reservoir story

• Main Authors: RANDLE, Sarah Priscilla, LINVILLE, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: drought; political ecology of water; settler colonialism; resilience; storage; flexibility; Infrastructure
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/163; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1162/viewcontent/jpe_5424_randle.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California's water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastructure that would not only increase available...