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KPBS Drought Tracker Update: Warm Temps Keeping Snowpack Thin

/in /by /KPBSby David Wagner

Thursday night’s forecast shows rain coming into San Diego County. Up to an inch of rain is expected in some coastal areas, and more is predicted to fall in the mountains. An update from the newly relaunched KPBS Drought Tracker shows the storm coming in the midst of a wet season that has so far brought California increased rain — but paltry snow — compared to previous drought years. Since the state’s wet season officially began on Oct. 1, California has seen a bit more rain than in many previous drought years.

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Storm Drenches Sacramento, North State, Puts A Dent In Drought

/in /by /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler

Another rainstorm pounded much of the state Thursday, causing minor havoc in some areas but putting another dent in California’s five-year drought.The storm was expected to continue into Friday, bringing rain in low-lying areas and snow to the Sierra Nevada. Rain gauges and reservoirs were filling up as California continued to experience one of the strongest starts to the rain season in years. Fresh data showed California is making progress against the drought.

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December Deluge Delivers Even More Rain and Mess Than Promised

/in /by /KQED (San Francisco)by Dan Brekke

The drying out starts … now. The storm that swamped the Bay Area and prompted flash flood warnings, inundated roads and triggered rock and mud slides from Sonoma County into Monterey County has moved south. After a few showers late Thursday and early Friday, the region is in for what appears to be at least a week of non-rain.

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Major Storms Barrel Into California: ‘Every Field Is A Big Lake’

/in /by /Los Angeles Times

The drought-plagued state was slammed with rainstorms Thursday night, with Northern California hit particularly hard. In Southern California, rains started moving in Thursday afternoon. The storm is expected to drop 1 to 3 inches of rain by Friday morning, National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Sirard said. The weather service issued a flash flood watch for the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains and foothill communities in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys.

 

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Large Regions of U.S. Damaged By Drought In 2016

/in /by /The Wall Street Journalby Cameron Mcwhirter and Jim Carlton

Droughts sparked deadly wildfires, killed tens of millions of trees and damaged crops and livestock in large regions of the U.S. in 2016. Major regional droughts hit the U.S. this year in the Southeast, California and New England—and all developed differently.

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Donald Trump Was Right: Tiny Fish Can Cause Big Water Supply Problems

/in /by /EnviroMedia, Inc. (Austin, Texas) by Valerie Salinas-Davis

That’s not Police Chief Martin Brody of Amity Islands from the 1975 movie Jaws. Wrong coast. Wrong century. Curt Schmutte, a consultant to the Metropolitan Municipal Water District of Southern California, recently saw a shark warning on a sign at a bait shop along the Sacramento River – easily a good 30 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. Wait. What? “If the governor builds those tunnels,” the bait shop cashier explained to Curt, “we’ll have great white sharks in the Delta.” OK. Rewind.

 

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Capitol Journal Everyone Is At Odds Over Gov. Brown’s Delta Tunnels Plan — Here’s A Compromise That Could Stop The Fighting

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby George Skelton

When enemies are in face-to-face combat, they’re often blind to an obvious path to potential compromise.That’s certainly true of water warriors, who have been battling over California’s most valuable and limited resource since statehood. Fights don’t get any more ferocious than over water in this state. Agriculture just won a major battle over environmentalists in Congress because of an alliance between House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). But still raging in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is a decades-long struggle that will affect 25 million Californians and 3 million acres of farmland.

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Everyone Is At Odds Over Gov. Brown’s Delta Tunnels Plan — Here’s A Compromise That Could Stop The Fighting

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby George Skelton

When enemies are in face-to-face combat, they’re often blind to an obvious path to potential compromise. That’s certainly true of water warriors, who have been battling over California’s most valuable and limited resource since statehood. Fights don’t get any more ferocious than over water in this state. Agriculture just won a major battle over environmentalists in Congress because of an alliance between House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

 

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Most Powerful People in San Diego

/in /by /Our City San Diego Mentioned: Maureen Stapleton

No. 8 Maureen Stapleton, general manager, San Diego County Water Authority.

BLOG: Desalination Plant Anniversary Bodes Well For California

/in /by /Water Deeply (New York)by Mark Muir Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

When the nation’s largest seawater desalination plant started commercial production last December, it was a historic victory for San Diego County and an entire drought-weary state. One year later, the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant has produced nearly 15 billion gallons (57bn liters) of drinking water, representing the best of our collective efforts in California to solve complex and sometimes confounding water challenges.

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