EMWD Interview Talks Groundwater Desalination
In the latest episode of Dropping By from Stormwater Solutions, Joe Mouawad, general manager of the Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) talks about EMWD’s emphasis on groundwater desalination.
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OPINION – Climate Is Changing and So Should Our Emergency Preparedness
The atmospheric river that deluged San Diego last week followed close on the heels of enormous waves that punished the California coast at the beginning of the year, with both weather events setting off alarms in more ways than one.
Turf Is Out. Native Grasses Are In. Here Are 4 Lush Low-Water Options
Tearing out your lawn can be a tough decision, especially if you have children or dogs who love to roll and play. Or — no judgment here — maybe you just enjoy the visual serenity of a swath of green in a region where the hills go brown in the summer.
More Atmospheric Rivers Are on the Way. Here’s What the West Can Expect.
The Western United States and Canada are likely to see excessive rain and heavy snowfall from a sequence of back-to-back atmospheric rivers beginning this weekend and continuing into next week.
OPINION – Local Agencies Need More Than “Words on Paper” From The State to Help Fight Drought and Flood
A Tulare County official who’s faced multiple droughts and devastating floods over the past decade appreciated the California Water Commission’s latest “policy paper” on how best to respond to such calamities but she had some advice of her own for the state.
Pineapple Express Headed for California With Flooding, Wind, Snow Expected This Week
All aboard the Pineapple Express this week in California as some coastal ranges could see up to 8 inches of rain before the end of the week, and Los Angeles and San Diego could be in for more monumental flooding.
How Atmospheric Rivers Cause Flooding
In the coming weeks, buckets of rain are likely to batter California. The culprit? Atmospheric rivers. The rains are born far away, deep in the tropical Pacific, where water evaporated from the warm ocean surface is absorbed into the atmosphere.
Saving Rain Water To Help Southern California
KCAL News reporter Joy Benedict shows how saving rainwater plays a large part in conservation in Southern California.
Historic California Rain Could Foreshadow More Extreme Rainfall In Coming Weeks
Southern California may have just experienced a historic amount of rainfall, but more extreme precipitation is headed toward the region. More than a month’s worth of rain fell in a span of three hours in San Diego on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
‘Wastewater to Tap’ Could Become Reality for Californians
California regulators approved new rules last month to enable water suppliers to treat wastewater and redistribute it as drinking water. The state says that the new standards, which took years to craft, are the most advanced in the nation for treating wastewater and will add millions of gallons of additional drinking water to state supplies.
