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The latest news and analysis covering water issues in Caliornia and the rest of the United States.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
OPINION: Gov. Newsom must mop up Brown’s water mess
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento Beeby Jonas MintonDespite many high priority issues on his plate, one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first tests will be how he deals with California’s water challenges and opportunities. Unfortunately, in the last days of his term Gov. Jerry Brown made a bad bargain with the Trump administration and special interests. It’s yet another mess for the new governor to […]
New Scale Will Measure Atmospheric Rivers In California From 1 To 5, Like Hurricanes
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Alejandra Reyes-VelardeMarty Ralph was sitting in a San Francisco restaurant a couple of years ago when the morning forecast came on the TV, showing the typical weather symbols indicating what the week ahead would bring: a sun, a cloud, a rainy cloud and a darker, more ominous rainy cloud. Ralph, the director of the Center for […]
Will Trump’s California Water Plan Send More To Republican Farmers And Short Democratic Cities?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow and Dale KaslerWhile campaigning for president in 2016, Donald Trump promised a cheering Fresno crowd he would be “opening up the water” for Central Valley farmers who’d been victimized by “insane” environmental rules to protect fish. Trump took one of the most aggressive steps to date to fulfill that promise Tuesday by proposing to relax environmental regulations governing how […]
All Yosemite Roads Closed; 7 Feet Of New Sierra Nevada Snow
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Mercury News (San Jose)by Paul RogersAll roads in and out of Yosemite National Park were closed Tuesday due to heavy snow and fallen trees, following four days of winter storms that blanketed the Sierra Nevada mountains. Some ski resorts near Lake Tahoe received 7 feet or more between Friday and Tuesday morning. “We’ve had incidents throughout the park,” said Yosemite […]
Calif. Clinches New Regs Just in Time for Federal Rollback
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /E&E News (Washington D.C.)by Ariel WittenbergAfter more than a decade of drafting and editing, California is poised to finally update its wetlands regulations this spring. The effort, which began after a pair of Supreme Court decisions limited federal wetlands protections, could be finalized just in time to insulate the state from a Trump administration proposal restricting which wetlands and waterways […]
All This Rain Has Made a Big Dent in the Drought
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /SF Weeklyby Peter Lawrence KaneHow stormy has California been? Stormy enough that parts of Orange County got two inches of rain, enough to force Disneyland to close early,something the park hardly ever does. (This was unrelated to the guy jumping off Space Mountain last Thursday, temporarily shutting down that ride.) Here in San Francisco, we got 1.13 inches between Saturday and Sunday, with […]