Monday is slated to be hot and humid once again as a heat advisory and an extreme heat warning remain in effect for San Diego.
A heat advisory continues for the coast, inland valleys and mountains until 8 p.m. Monday. The extreme heat warning also continues for the deserts until 8 p.m. Monday.
California lawmakers are returning to Sacramento with several major issues expected to dominate the legislative session.
A deepening water crisis in the Western United States has reached an impasse as disagreement among affected states is grinding progress to a halt, and the well of potential solutions is close to running dry.
The nation’s two largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the Colorado River — have fallen to their lowest levels on record. It’s a moment of reckoning in the drought-stricken West as seven states can’t agree on how to share the rapidly shrinking water supply.
Cities across the Southwest are stepping up conservation efforts amid the growing crisis facing a key Colorado River reservoir straddling the Utah-Arizona border.
While water costs could rise for Southwest residents, according to experts, it is unlikely that changes in the Colorado River will disrupt the availability of drinking water. Still, cities in Arizona, California and New Mexico aren’t taking any chances. Some are recycling wastewater and limiting when people can water their lawns, while others are desalinating ocean water.
More than 100 recent protests across California and the U.S. over data centers represent the same fierce opposition that horse enthusiasts once mounted against Model T cars.
The times eventually change. And so, in the end, do we.
The developer behind a proposed $10 billion data center has filed a lawsuit asserting his rights to Colorado River water in California’s Imperial Valley.
Sebastian Rucci is a Huntington Beach lawyer and businessman pushing the plan in a region already known as a big water user. The Imperial Valley sprouted as an agricultural center that’s the largest user of Colorado River water in the seven states that rely on the river. Farmers use about 80% of the state’s full allocation.
The U.S. government is warning that Iranian state-backed hackers are actively breaking in and disrupting industrial control systems at American water and energy providers. This new alert comes months after federal agencies warned of an escalation in hacking from Iranian actors amid the ongoing war.
In an advisory updated Wednesday, the FBI, the NSA, the Department of Energy, and CISA said Iranian hackers were targeting programmable logic controllers on internet-connected operational networks, allowing them to manipulate data on their displays, causing outages and disruption.
Mexico says it’s finally going to hire a company to build a plant that turns the ocean into freshwater in Rosarito, reviving an idea shelved years ago amid protests that the government was privatizing water.
And, in the name of reducing how much water Mexico takes from the Colorado River, the United States is going to help get the water to the cities that need it. Construction could start as soon as Aug. 1, according to a federal Mexican project website, but the government had not yet selected a builder.
California and two other states have avoided the harshest water cutbacks the Trump administration could have imposed over the next two years to deal with the deepening crisis on the Colorado River.
The Times has learned that federal officials have agreed with an offer made earlier this year by California, Arizona and Nevada to reduce what they take from the river by at least 3.2 million acre-feet between now and the end of 2028.
Gary Arant, the longtime general manager of the Valley Center Municipal Water District, who died last week after several years of battling cancer, was, as his fellow industry members have described him, a “water titan”—but for Valley Center he was much, much more.
He was a steady hand on the tiller during a 36-year period of unprecedented change. Which saw the transition of the water district from a largely agricultural water vendor, with a small tail of residential meters, to a dominantly domestic purchaser, with some farming sales.
