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.
Pressure Mounts To Solve California’s Toxic Farmland Drainage Problem
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Water Deeply (New York)by Matt WeiserMany Americans know the name Kesterson as the California site where thousands of birds and fish were discovered with gruesome deformities in 1983, a result of exposure to selenium-poisoned farm runoff. Thirty-five years later, it is one of the oldest unresolved water problems in the state. Selenium, a naturally occurring element, is essential to people and animals […]
To Manage California’s Groundwater, Think More About Surface Water
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Water Deeply (New York)by Ian EvansCalifornia’s 2014 legislation, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was significant in that it was the state’s first major groundwater regulation. But Michael Kiparsky the founding director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, says that it was also significant in another way. “It breaks with what had been decades of a legal […]
Arizona Utility Tries To End Multi-State Colorado River Feud
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /AP News (New York)by Dan ElliotArizona’s largest water provider tried Tuesday to defuse a multi-state dispute over the Colorado River, saying it regretted the belligerent-sounding words it used to describe its management strategy for the critical, over-used waterway. The Central Arizona Project, which provides water to about 5 million people, pledged to be more cooperative with other river users and […]
Coast Line: ‘Stage 1’ Water Restrictions Begin Tuesday In Santa Cruz
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Santa Cruz Sentinel NewsIn an effort to maintain water storage in the city’s only drinking water reservoir, Loch Lomond, the Santa Cruz City Council adopted a Stage 1 Water Shortage Alert, which takes effect Tuesday. Below normal rainfall and runoff, coupled with water supply needs for fish habitat, have reduced the amount of water available for city of […]
Where Water Is Scarce, Communities Turn To Reusing Wastewater
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Yale Environment 360 (New Haven, Conn.)by Jacques LeslieThen California’s Orange County Water District began distributing drinking water derived from sewage in the mid-1970s, it acted out of simple need. The aquifer it relied on for most of its drinking water had been so overdrawn that saltwater from the nearby Pacific Ocean was seeping into it, and allocation limits prevented increases in exports […]
LA County Officials Considering Property Tax For Stormwater Measures
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Los Angeles Timeby Nina AgrawalAt Los Amigos Park in Santa Monica, 11-year-old Pony League baseball players wearing Padres and Dodgers uniforms huddled with their coaches after a recent game. Standing atop a grassy area next to the baseball diamond, many may not have been aware of what lay underneath: a 53,000-gallon storage tank for stormwater runoff. Built in 2017, […]