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SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s local television station, KPBS, engages the public in a televised journey into how the state’s current water shortage affects agriculture. The production, “Agriculture: San Diego’s Working Water,” explores the lives of farmers and government officials who are looking for ways to cope with California’s dangerously dry climate. Read more here. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the Senate has moved to pass the Great Lakes Compact, it has stalled on legislation that would address the invasion of harmful non-indigenous species into the basin. The AP reports that Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is pushing to get clean-up standards established for the […]
SACRAMENTO – If Nestle Waters North America fails to consider the effects of global warming before opening a new bottled water plant in northern California, Attorney General Jerry Brown intends to sue the company. The plant’s design allows it to pump enough water in a single year to fill more than 3 million 8-ounce water […]
In conversation with public responses to their proposed water bond, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein explain the logic behind the legislation. They present reasons for why they feel that approving the bond is both urgently necessary and beneficial in the long run. From the Los Angeles Times: We believe this is a […]
Owners of wells in Arizona, California, and Nevada drain an estimated 5 billion gallons annually from the Colorado River. But, in a time when water for the desert is in high demand, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has proposed a rule that would require citizens who have drilled too closely to the river to have […]
RUIDOSO, New Mexico – Two states east of drought-riddled and fire-etched California, the New Mexico mountain town of Ruidoso recently endured flash flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly. The flood engorged and overwhelmed the Rio Ruidoso and displaced 400 people, announced Reuters. There was one fatality. According to Darlene Hart, of the town’s fire […]
KIEV, Ukraine – From California to Cairo to Cyprus, this month’s global landscape appears desiccated by droughts. Yet, in Ukraine the situation is far from dry. After five days of relentless rain, the Prut and Dnestr rivers are extraordinarily high, reports Reuters. At least 40,000 homes have been flooded and 12,000 people evacuated. According to […]
As the public becomes increasingly aware of the oceanic scope of the impending freshwater crisis, policy makers and scientists look for alternatives. Is desalination an answer? From the Los Angeles Times: It’s easy to understand why so many of us, hearing of threats from climate change and shrinking water supplies, turn our gaze west to […]
SANTA CRUZ, California – A nearly quarter-million dollar study is under way to see if water, long drawn hastily from beneath the Santa Cruz Mountains, can be replenished. County water officials are looking at abandoned quarries as possible sites to let surface water percolate back underground, and wells to push water down instead of pulling […]
SACRAMENTO, California – Letters will be going out to private land owners in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, notifying them of the State’s plan to begin work that might cut through their property. “For the most part, this will be a wake-up call for a lot of people,” Mark Wilson of Clarksburg, a representative of farmers […]
SAN JACINTO VALLEY, California – The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has spent decades waiting for the passage of a bill that would allow them to reclaim rights to water they accuse non-Indians of diverting since 1865. The bill has finally made it through Congress and is now on its way to the President’s desk, […]
An appeals court in California upheld the decision to bar ships passing through the Great Lakes from discharging ballast water on their way to or from the ocean, an article in Democrat and Chronicle announces. New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, said the “decision is a huge win in protecting New York state’s Great Lakes […]
