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A Southern California Town Reckons With Its Disappearing Beaches

/in , /by /Marketplaceby Jill Replogle

On a sunny fall morning, waves crashed against a slope made up of huge boulders, or riprap, sending spray over the adjacent railroad tracks. These tracks, south of San Clemente State Beach in Southern California, are part of the only freight rail line that connects the Port of San Diego with the rest of the country. This is also the route of the popular Amtrak Surfliner that hugs the coast all the way up to San Luis Obispo in Central California.

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Western States Ponder Regional Grid as Renewables Grow

/in , /by /Energywireby Jason Plautz

As temperatures on the West Coast soared into the triple digits in early September, power demand threatened to reach record levels — and utilities braced for grid problems. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) warned of potential blackouts. Idaho Power Co., already hobbled by a pair of generator outages, prepared to cut power to some customers in Boise. Utilities in the desert Southwest expected surging demand to strain their grids.

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Rincon Water Rebates a Hit With Customers

/in , /by /Business Wire Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District announced today that it completed an initiative to provide nearly $1.2 million in rebates to customers and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the program. The rebates were made possible following years of litigation by the San Diego County Water Authority against the Metropolitan Water District for violating existing exchange agreements between the two agencies.

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Building Named to Honor Water Industry Pioneer Dawn McDougle

/in , , /by /Water News Network

The Vallecitos Water District honored former staffer and water industry pioneer Dawn McDougle by naming a building in her honor. The McDougle Building, at the Meadowlark Reclamation Facility, celebrates her three decades in the wastewater industry.

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Snowpack Off to a Good Start Across Colorado River Basin

/in , , /by /KNAU Arizona Public Radioby Alex Hager

About 60% percent of the Colorado River starts as snow in Colorado. That’s a water lifeline for more than 40 million people from Wyoming to Mexico. This year’s snowpack is off to a good start, but the basin would need years of back-to-back wet conditions to help erase drought.

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As the Colorado River is Stretched Thin by Drought, Can the 100-Year-Old Rules That Divide It Still Work?

/in , , /by /The Arizona Republicby Brandon Loomis

Cowboy Michael Klaren heaved hay bales onto his wagon, climbed aboard and urged his two workhorses to drag it across a meadow, the ground spongy with the meltwater from a snowstorm. Wet boots had raised his spirits on this March morning, as had two wet cow dogs he called Woodrow and Gus. The meadow was off to a more promising head start on spring than he had come to expect after years of drought.

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The World’s Largest Dam Removal Will Touch Many Lives in the Klamath River Basin

/in , , /by /Jefferson Public Radioby Cassandra Profita

The four-dam teardown brings hope and uncertainty to residents in an area of Southern Oregon and Northern California where drought has made water a source of fierce controversy. Looking down at a pool filled with Klamath River salmon swimming back to their spawning grounds, Karuk Tribal Councilor Aaron “Troy” Hockaday says he can’t wait to see what the future holds for them.

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San Joaquin Valley Residents, Growers Vying for Water in Fourth Year of Drought

/in , , /by /Courthouse News Serviceby Natalie Hanson

Noemi Barrera has spent four months without running water for herself and her four children and is among many people in California living without it as wells across the state run dry. Like most in the 184-person agricultural community of Tooleville, nestled by the Tulare County foothills, Barrera can hear the county’s water truck arriving down the street to bring five-gallon jug rations every other week.

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Coastal Commission Approves Cal Am’s Desal Plant in Marina, but Many Hurdles Remain.

/in , /by /Monterey County Weeklyby David Schmalz

After more than a decade in the trying, a major desalination plant to serve the Monterey Peninsula has cleared a significant hurdle—in theory, at least. In a 13-hour meeting that adjourned just after 10pm on Thursday, Nov. 17, the California Coastal Commission approved a conditional coastal development permit for California American Water, the private water utility that serves the greater Monterey Peninsula, to build a desalination project in neighboring Marina, a city whose residents are vehemently opposed to it, and who would not be served by it.

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Utahns Are Often Knocked as the Most Wasteful Water Users in the U.S. Are the Numbers Misleading?

/in , /by /The Salt Lake Tribuneby Leia Larsen

Utah is often ribbed and, at times, outright rebuked for the amount of water its residents use. But some of the state’s resources managers claim the data used to make comparisons across states is flawed and unfair, making Utahns’ water habits look much worse than they really are.

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