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There’s Success In Money-For-Water Programs — But For How Long?

/in /by /High Country News (Paonia, Colo.)by Sarah Tory

When Freddie Botur, 45, whose ranch spans 72,000 acres outside of Pinedale, Wyoming, first heard about a program that was paying ranchers to let water run down the river instead of irrigating with it, he was skeptical. But Nick Walrath, a project coordinator for Trout Unlimited, told him he’d receive about $200 for every acre-foot of water saved by not watering hay on his Cottonwood Ranch.

 

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North County Report: Problems Trip Up Two Of SD’s Biggest Water Plants

/in /by /Voice Of San Diegoby Ruarri Serpa Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Two of San Diego’s biggest water treatment plants are in North County. Both are having some problems. First, there’s the desalination plant in Carlsbad. It’s the largest facility of its kind in the country that takes ocean water and makes it drinkable. Over the last year, the privately owned Carlsbad plant failed to deliver nearly a fifth of the water the San Diego County Water Authority ordered from it. Why?

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