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.
The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy Reservoir In Judges’ Hands
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /San Francisco Chronicleby Kurtis AlexanderThe battle to drain the reservoir in Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley reignited Wednesday as critics of the historic dam told a panel of judges in Fresno that their legal case to raze it should proceed, despite an earlier decision to dismiss the suit. In California’s Fifth District Court of Appeal, attorneys for the group Restore […]
Price Of Water 2018: Utilities Revise Household Water Rate Formulas
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Circle of Blue (Traverse City, Mich.)by Brett WaltonIn contrast to the federal government’s chronic underinvestment in the pipes, pumps, and plants that supply and treat the nation’s drinking water, America’s large cities are forging ahead with fresh spending to modernize their systems. One result is that all the work to repair municipal water systems is raising the cost of service. In its […]
Illicit Pot Growers Are Polluting State, Even With New Law
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /San Francisco Chronicleby Peter FimriteThe legalization of cannabis in California has done almost nothing to halt illegal marijuana growing by Mexican drug cartels, which are laying bare large swaths of national forest in California, poisoning wildlife, and siphoning precious water out of creeks and rivers, U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott said Tuesday. The situation is so dire that federal, state […]
Farrell Wants Agencies To Use Less Water
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /San Francisco Chronicleby Kurtis AlexanderSan Francisco is hoping to better prepare for the next drought. Though the city’s government agencies were good at cutting water use during the recent dry years, easily meeting a self-imposed goal of reducing consumption 10 percent between 2014 and 2017 and often conserving more, Mayor Mark Farrell wants to pick it up a notch. Farrell is asking […]
Feds Push To Raise Shasta Dam, But Would It Ease California Water Woes?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Water Deeply (New York)by Alastair BlandOfficials with the federal government seem determined to realize a controversial proposal to raise Shasta Dam and increase the storage capacity of the reservoir behind it – despite objections from fish and wildlife agencies and California law that technically forbids such a project. In January, the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, received a […]
Court Rules No Inverse Condemnation For California Water Districts In Copper Pipe Case
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Legal Newslineby Dawn GeskeThe California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three has shot down the appeal of a resident of Laguna Niguel that claimed the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California damaged her copper piping. According to the court opinion filed by Associate Justice Raymond J. Ikola, plaintiff Lisa Williams filed a lawsuit claiming MWD […]