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The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
People Haven’t Just Made the Planet Hotter. We’ve Changed the Way It Rains.
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /USA TODAYby USA TODAY StaffYou probably noticed a lot of weird weather in 2021. From record-breaking deluges and tropical storms to drought-stricken landscapes that erupted in wildfire, the nation seemed to lurch from one weather-related disaster to the next. You’re forgiven if you dismiss these events as unrelated, albeit unfortunate, phenomena. But they actually share a common bond – […]
Busting Water Limits Won’t Cost You in Marin County: Penalties Canceled as Rain Fills Reservoirs
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /San Francisco Chronicleby Danielle EcheverriaAfter recent reservoir-boosting rainfall, Marin County’s largest water district decided Tuesday to repeal recently established financial penalties for excessive water use. In September, the Marin Municipal Water District board adopted an ordinance that established financial penalties for exceeding certain water use limits it set in April as drought conditions worsened across the Bay Area and California. In […]
UN Report: the World’s Farms Stretched to ‘a Breaking Point’
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Yale Climate Connectionsby Dana NuccitelliAlmost 10% of the 8 billion people on earth are already undernourished with 3 billion lacking healthy diets, and the land and water resources farmers rely on stressed to “a breaking point.” And by 2050 there will be 2 billion more mouths to feed, warns a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization […]
Water Board Tables Delta Drought Regulation
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Agri Pulseby Brad HookerThe State Water Resources Control Board on Wednesday withdrew an emergency drought regulation for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. Despite a dry January, board staff said the regulation, known as a temporary urgency change petition (TUCP), would not improve conditions if implemented as planned in February. They found no potential benefits to Shasta and Trinity reservoirs, which have […]
Poseidon Water Could Receive Millions in State Bonds for Huntington Beach Plant
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Los Angeles Timesby Matt SzaboThe controversial Poseidon Water seawater desalination plant in Huntington Beach could be in line to receive millions in state funds from the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. The committee met Wednesday, a three-hour meeting during which it partially decided how to divide up more than $4.3 billion in tax exempt Private Activity Bonds that are […]
California Drought: January Is a Rainfall Bust. How Big of a Problem Is That?
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Mercury Newsby Paul RogersSunny skies. Balmy temperatures. Walks on the beach. Umbrellas back in the closet. After a soaking wet December that ended fire season, delivered more 15 feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada, and boosted hopes that California’s severe drought might be coming to and end, dry weather is back, in a big way. Like a […]