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Climate Change Means Some Coastal Groundwater May Soon Be Too Salty to Drink. What Can Cities Do?

/in , , /by /WHYYby Alan Yu

Cape May, New Jersey has a long history as a resort town with seafood, ballrooms, and Victorian-era mansions, dating back to the 18th century. The idyllic, seaside town is surrounded by ocean on three sides.

But in the 1950s, the city started to have a problem with its water supply, which comes from groundwater. Saltwater was seeping into wells, making the water undrinkable. The city had to abandon its old wells and drill new ones, over and over again.

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How Much Rainfall Has Sacramento Actually Got This Year?

/in , /by /ABC 10by Carley Gomez

California as a whole continues to be in its third year of drought, but earlier in the water year, it had a strong chance to see a normal water year. After a strong atmospheric river arrived in October, the first month of the 2021-2022 water year. Forecast models from the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, showed the Sacramento region as having about an 80% chance of meeting an average water year.

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Agriculture Industry Rushes to Adapt to Oncoming Climate Challenges

/in , , /by /Sacramento Business Journalby Emily Hamann

In California’s fields, farmers are already facing the impacts of climate change every day. They are heading into yet another potentially devastating fire year, and the third year in a row of drought.

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Farmers in Lower Basin Unite to Solve Drought Crises

/in , , /by /The Desert Review

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) issued a call last June to the public for assistance in developing long-term operations on the Colorado River. This announcement came within days of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton’s message to a Senate Committee that the seven states of the Colorado River Basin must come up with an emergency deal by mid-August to conserve between 2 and 4 million acre-feet of water in the next year to protect the entire Colorado River system, according to the Family Farm Alliance (FFA) newsletter.

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Western Drought Approaching Catastrophic Levels

/in , , /by /Ag Infoby Tim Hammerich

The western United States continues to suffer from a historic level of drought. Wade Crowfoot is the secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, and he spoke during the Western Food and Ag Issues Summit hosted by Agri-Pulse. He offered up a key example of just how bad the drought has been.

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Porta Potties and Dirty Buses: Hearst Castle Cuts Down Water Use in Response to Drought

/in , , /by /The Tribuneby Mackenzie Shuman

Visitors to Hearst Castle can expect to see some changes as California combats its worst drought in years.

California State Parks is implementing stage 3 of its drought contingency plan in an effort to cut back on water use at the former San Simeon estate of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

 

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Brentwood Residents Utilize City’s Recycled Water Program as Drought Deepens

/in , /by /CBS Bay Areaby Katie Nielsen

According to new numbers just released, Northern California residents have cut their water use by 8.5% in May, but that’s still short of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s drought reduction goal of 15%.

One East Bay city is giving away free water to residents to help conserve. While it may seem counterintuitive, Brentwood has been giving away water since 2015, when the state was also mired in drought.

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Gray Water’s Untapped Potential is Clouded by Complexity

/in , /by /KJZZby Nicholas Gerbis

The past three decades have brought mounting evidence of climate change, a tenacious drought in Arizona and appliances offering unheard-of water efficiency.

“The residential water use per capita has been declining for the last 30 years or so. And indoor water use has especially been going down,” said Sarah Porter, director of Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy.

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California Capitol Lawn No Longer Being Watered

/in , , /by /FOX 40by Jose Fabian

The lawns at the California Capitol are no longer being watered as water conservation was taken up a notch.

Emergency water conservation regulations were enacted by the California State Water Resources Control Board, and they went into effect on June 10. The regulations prohibit ornamental or non-functional grass at commercial, industrial and institutional properties from being watered.

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Opinion: The Case for Banning Front Lawns in California Is Stronger Than Ever

/in , /by /Manteca Bulletinby Dennis Wyatt

Man-made climate change is not the source of California’s water woes.

I guarantee that some people will read those 11 words and dismiss anyone who utters them as a climate change denier or at least a member of the Flat Earth Society.

But the science and history are absolutely clear that when it comes to our water supply we are basing our solutions on the wrong facts.

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