California and the U.S.
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: Sacramento’s New Way To Tax The Water You Drink
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Californianby Susan ShellyAnother new tax is headed for your water bill as if it wasn’t high enough already. Gov. Jerry Brown has been trying to push through a statewide tax on drinking water, the first ever in California history, and as you might imagine, it has been a challenge for him. People are fed up with new […]
Is There Water Left To Be Developed In The Colorado River Basin?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KUNC (Greeley, Colo.)by Luke RunyonThe Colorado River is running low on water. The lifeline that slakes the thirst of 40 million southwestern residents is projected to hit a historic low mark within two years, forcing mandatory cuts to water deliveries in Arizona, Nevada and Mexico. Facing exceptional drought conditions, cities throughout the watershed this summer have imposed mandatory water […]
Lake Mead Water Shortage Could Spell Trouble For Colorado
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Durango Heraldby Marianne GoodlandA new forecast from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shows signs that water levels at Lake Mead, which supplies water to three southwestern states and northern Mexico, could drop so low by next year that it could eventually result in a demand for more water from the Colorado River and from the upper basin states, including Colorado, […]
OPINION: Safe Drinking Water For All
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The New York Timesby Laurel Firestone and Susana De AndaIn 2007, the small town of Lanare in California’s Central Valley finally got what it had desperately needed for years — a treatment plant to remove high levels of arsenic in the drinking water. But the victory was short-lived. Just months after the $1.3 million federally funded plant began running, the town was forced to shut […]
Tree Rings Tell CSUF Students About Droughts And Fires In The Sierra
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Orange County Registerby Wendy FawthorpSome students plant trees. Some hug them. This summer, eight Cal State Fullerton students sampled trees. Really, the students were listening to what trees had to say about the droughts and fires they had lived through. Specifically, the students extracted cores from trees in the Sierra Nevada – including some in Yosemite that had burned […]
California’s Water Wars Heat Up At Sacramento Hearing Over River Flows
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /San Francisco Chronicleby Kurtis AlexanderCentral Valley farmers and their elected leaders converged on Sacramento on Tuesday to accuse the state of engineering a water grab that puts the fate of fish above their fields and jeopardizes a thriving agricultural economy. The allegations came at a meeting of the powerful State Water Resources Control Board, which recently unveiled a far-reaching […]