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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: Stop The Delta Debacle Before Property Owners Get Gouged
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Mercury News (San Jose)by Ed ClendanielCall it the Big Gouge. Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration will try for a third time to secure a political mega-deal that would commit millions of California property owners to pay for the $19.9 billion Delta twin-tunnels water grab. Without approval of voters or the Legislature. It’s an atrocious abuse of the political system that […]
Part Of California Is Sinking, Here’s Where And Why
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Weather Networkby Dr. Mario PicazoResearchers from UCLA and the University of Houston have been tracking changes in the groundwater table that runs below California’s San Joaquin Central Valley. The study directed by UCLA’s Department of Geography Dennis Lettenmaier shows how between 2002 and 2016 there was a significant loss of groundwater from what is considered one of the largest […]
Oroville Dam Repairs Hit $1.1 Billion, Could Climb Further
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Bakersfield Nowby Paul EliasThe cost of repairs and other improvements stemming from last year’s near disaster at the nation’s tallest dam is $1.1 billion, a staggering total nearly $250 million over projections at the start of the year and that could go higher, California officials said Wednesday.
Orange County Water District Awarded Two U.S. Bureau Of Reclamation Water Purification Research Grants
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /WaterWorld (Tulsa, Okla.)The United States Bureau of Reclamation recently announced its selection of sixteen research projects to receive funding under the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program (DWPR), two of which will be conducted in part by Orange County Water District’s (OCWD) research and development staff. Of the $3.5 million that the DWPR awarded, $350,000 will go […]
Op-Ed: High-Tech Careers Abound In California’s Water Industry
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /San Jose Insideby Martin KropelnickiWhen you think of high tech in Silicon Valley, your mind immediately goes to the latest app or newest device. What you probably don’t think of is the “water” industry. You turn on your tap and there it is … clean, fresh water, a fundamental building block we often take for granted. What you probably don’t […]
Deeply Talks: Fire & Drought – The Extremes Become Routine
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Lindsay AbramsIn this month’s episode of Deeply Talks, Water Deeply managing editor Matt Weiser discussed the American West’s dual challenges of water scarcity and wildfires with Crystal Kolden, associate professor of forest, rangeland and fire sciences in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho, and Van Butsic, assistant cooperative extension specialist at the University of California, […]