Authors from the USGS and The Nature Conservancy have recently published an article in Environmental Research Letters that considers the impact of projected land use change on future water demand in California. Using ST-Sim the authors projected potential future land use change and associated water demand.  The research suggests that if recent land use trends and water use efficiency rates continue unchanged to the year 2062, total water use is projected to increase by 1.8 billion cubic meters(+4.1%). Only a 25% reduction in municipal water use would result in no net change in water demand between the years 2012 and 2062.