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An April frost and drought conditions in Iran have significantly damaged the Islamic nation’s pistachio crop — their second export behind oil. Now they face pressure from California, also a major pistachio producer, reports Reuters. Although U.S. efforts to market the nut are strong, dry conditions in the American West also mean that neither country […]
Dorthy Green discusses water use in California in a recent op-ed piece appearing in the Los Angles Times. Despite the looming crisis in water, we have enough to live on, but not enough to waste. And waste it we have, with great enthusiasm for lush green lawns in a desert and a penchant for backroom […]
SAN FRANCISCO — George W. Bush’s legacy is at stake in more than one way this election season, with an eponymous ballot proposal on the docket in California. The San Francisco proposal seeks to rename a local sewage processing plant after the current President. The official proposal, Prop-R on the ballot, was authorized after the […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just announced that it does not intend to regulate levels of perchlorate — a component of rocket fuel linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children — in public drinking water. Although the agency does intend to issue a health advisory after its final decision, according to […]
Circle of Blue covered the Pacific Institute’s newest report on water agricultural conservation last week. The report, More with Less: Agriculture Water Conservation and Efficiency in California, generated controversy throughout the agricultural sector in southern California. For example, Timothy Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), said the report “does not […]
Discharging selenium into watersheds remains a major problem in the American West by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue Mining mogul Johnson Matthey, Inc. is pleading guilty to allegations that it conspired to cover up illegally high levels of the toxic mineral selenium in the industrial run-off of its silver and gold refining plant in Utah. […]
Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report: misconduct rife in water sector by C.T. Pope Circle of Blue From Manila to Milan, fraud, bribery and organized profiteering are rampant in the water sector says a new report by Transparency International (TI), a global non-profit aimed at exposing and preventing corruption. The organization’s annual corruption report, presented last […]
When presidential hopeful John McCain expressed his opinion that the Colorado River Compact be renegotiated, potential voters reacted with uproar. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, many in the already water-politicked swing state of Colorado worried that the Arizona senator’s comment indicated his desire to redirect the flow of the conversation toward the river’s parched […]
EAST MONTPELIER, Vermont – The piece of land New York businessman Daniel Antonovich owns is not far from Montpelier’s spring, where freshwater bubbles up from what seems like an eternal supply. It comes as no surprise, then, that he plans to open a bottling operation — withdrawing 250,000 gallons per day. But in Vermont, where […]
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s humongous Hetch Hetchy water system is getting an upgrade. Responding to drought conditions, the city has decided to spend $4.4 billion to refurbish the area’s most extensive water infrastructure project. Improving provision of the resource to almost 2.5 million people, however, requires no small degree of coordination and political sensitivity, […]
Featured in the New York Times a new sewage treatment plant in Orange County, California, reveals the latest in water technologies. Using processes such as microfiltration and reverse osmosis, the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System converts the county’s sewage back into drinking water. As it turns out, the end product is cleaner than water found […]
RED BLUFF, California – Stakeholders in dam profits watch with anxiety as an environmental lawsuit that would remove the Red Bluff diversion dam nears conclusion. The Red Bluff diversion dam provides water during the summer to boaters and farmers, but interrupts the steadily declining salmon run. “Obviously the writing is on the wall that operation […]
