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County Offers Bigger Discounts On Rain Barrel Rebate Program

/in /by /Fox5 San Diego Quoted: Joni German

A rebate program that will make already discounted rain barrels even less expensive for area residents will be available through the end of this year, the San Diego County Water Authority announced Monday. The 50-gallon barrels will be available at the Solana Center for $90, discounted from $149, according to the water authority. Until Dec. 31, purchasers can also get a $75 rebate through the SoCalWaterSmart program. The offer will be reduced to $35 on Jan. 1, according to the agency. “Water stored in rain barrels can gradually be released into landscapes between rains,” said Joni German, water resources specialist for the water authority.

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OPINION: Northern California Has A Much Different Water Outlook Than L.A.

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby John Woodling

The premise that Californians should be conserving at the same level as 2015 and that anything less is “backsliding” is ill-conceived. The reality is that our water supply picture — especially in Northern California — is not “precarious” as suggested by State Water Board staff. (“Water conservation improved in September but is still worse than in 2015,” Nov. 1) Conditions improved significantly in 2016, leading the State Water Board to the sound decision to lift mandated conservation for those water suppliers that demonstrated adequate supplies. This allowed local water providers to match their levels of conservation to the reliability of their water supplies.

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Forecasters: Wet Winter Odds Aren’t Good

/in /by /Hanford Sentinelby Seth Nidever

Are you dreaming of a wet winter to turn Kings County’s fallowed fields green and end the drought? Prepare for disappointment. Forecasters are calling for a weak La Nina to last into the spring. That usually means dry conditions in Central California. La Nina refers to cooler sea water surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. Scott Borgioli, a meteorologist at www.WeatherAg.com, estimated a 75 percent probability that Central California will have below-average precipitation during the upcoming rainy season. Borgioli said that seven of the 11 weak La Nina episodes since 1950 have produced below-average precipitation.

 

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Chances For Wet Winter Stands 50 Percent, October Triumphs As Wettest Month

/in /by /Nevada Appealby Molly Moser

The last couple of weeks were rainy, but the month of October was probably the wettest month the area will experience for the rest of the year. That’s according to Climatologist Dan McEvoy at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno. Although October is known to be the first water month of the year in the West, it isn’t going to fully mend the drought. However, the rain put many positive impacts on the area, McEvoy said. “The soil is moistening in high elevation before snowfall hits,” he said.

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The Dry Facts

/in /by /The Economist (San Francisco)

Thousands have lived without love; not one without water,” observed W.H. Auden. He omitted to add that, as with love, many people have a strong moral aversion to paying for the life-sustaining liquid. Some feel that water is a right, and should therefore be free. Others lobby governments to subsidise its distribution to favoured groups. All this results in vast and preventable waste. Water covers two-thirds of the Earth’s surface. It is not used up when consumed: it just keeps circulating.

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OPINION: Two Opposing Views On Desalination Project

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby Shirley Dettloff Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

As a former Huntington Beach mayor, past member of the Coastal Commission and a 52-year resident of Huntington Beach, I am supporting Poseidon’s desalination project in Huntington Beach. I have followed the project for all of the years that it has been talked about, studied, researched and have come to the conclusion that it must be supported. My support comes from a layperson’s knowledge of the project. First, Southern California has been through five years of drought, with the prospect of a sixth year. Water is an absolute necessity when we look at our future.

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California’s drought divide rainy north, dry south

/in /by /Associated Press (As Published by U.S. News & World Report)by Ellen Knickmeyer and Amy Taxin

Among the changing red and yellow fall leaves of Yosemite National Park, nature artist Penny Otwell is marveling at the fullest rushing waterfalls and rivers she’s ever painted there in autumn. But down in the dry Southern California suburbs, David Cantuna laments the same dead and dying grass in his backyard. California’s historic drought finally is easing in parts of the north, thanks to October rains that were three or more times the norm.

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BLOG: Eleven Experts to Watch on California Water Innovation

/in /by /Water Deeply (New York)by Eline Gordts

California’s years-long drought has caused problems big and small, but it has also sparked a call to dramatically speed up innovation in the water industry. California of all places, advocates say, should lead the way in revolutionizing water management and water technology. “It’s not the first time the state has faced a major resource crisis, and, if history is a guide, the Golden State could lead the way to reinvent its – and the U.S. – water sector,” Stanford University’s Newsha Ajami wrote in a July op-ed for Water Deeply.

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Cortopassi’s Race Nears Finish Line As Showdown With Gov. Brown Draws Big Bucks

/in /by /Record Net (Stockton)by Alex Breitler

It was Monday afternoon, and Dino Cortopassi hadn’t yet heard about the latest jab which Gov. Jerry Brown had taken against Cortopassi’s Proposition 53 just a few hours earlier. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Brown suggested that his dog, Sutter, had a message for Californians: “Pee on 53.” The 79-year-old Cortopassi paused upon hearing this, then said: “He’s getting pretty desperate, isn’t he?” The governor, that is.

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Carlsbad Celebrates Expansion Of Water Recycling Plant

/in /by /Seaside Courier (Encinitas)by Thomas K. Arnold Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The city of Carlsbad Nov. 1 celebrated the expansion of its water recycling plant, a project the city says will increase water reliability by enabling companies, schools, HOAs and other large water users to conserve limited drinking water supplies by utilizing recycled water for irrigation and other non-drinking uses. Recycled water is wastewater that has been treated to a level suitable for irrigation, industrial processing and other non-drinking uses. The city has more than doubled its recycled water consumption in the last 10 years and has more recycled water meters than any other water district in San Diego County.

 

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