Peter Gleick: Smart Water Meters, Dumb Meters, No Meters
How is it possible that a place like California, with such a long and painful history of water problems, remains so far behind the curve of smart water management?
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How is it possible that a place like California, with such a long and painful history of water problems, remains so far behind the curve of smart water management?
Report recommends upgrading the state’s information base to better user understanding of the water system.
Whether, where, and how to build new dams: the old Western debate.
Californians have improved their efficiency of water use over the past 25 years. The state’s economy and population have grown. But total water use has not grown, and per person, each Californian uses far less today. This improvement in efficiency has saved the state’s collective rear end. So far.
A NASA report summarizing data collected from new satellites confirms what most water observers have known for a long time. Massive amounts of groundwater are being sucked out of California’s Central Valley groundwater aquifers — unreported, unmonitored, and unregulated.
Climate conditions and regulations are causing California to reassess water allocation, potentially taking drastic conservation measures.
A lot of people have asked me my opinion about the new water legislation just passed in Sacramento. Here is a longer version of my piece in the New York Times Bay Area blog page
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) vetoed a bill last week that would have included a right to “clean, affordable, and accessible water” in the state’s legislation.
Rigged feasibility study shows desperation for new surface reservoirs.
Thus concludes a new comprehensive assessment of the impacts of the drought on Central Valley unemployment.