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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.
California May Make Hosing Off Your Driveway a Permanent “Prohibited” Practice
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee / KFSN-TV (Fresno)The State Water Resources Control Board is considering a number of regulations that could impact how and when you use water. The Board may move to permanently prohibit practices that waste potable water, such as: Hosing off sidewalks, driveways and other hardscapes; Washing automobiles with hoses not equipped with a shut-off nozzle; Using non-recirculated water […]
Can the Private Sector Save America’s Aging Water Systems?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /CBS NewsWho owns the water pipes beneath your street? Increasingly, it is a private company, a shift from the mostly public ownership of the systems used to provide drinking water and remove waste that has prevailed in the U.S. since the early 1900s.
District Presses on With Desalination
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Laguna Beach IndyThe South Coast Water District voted to take another step towards building a $100 million plant that converts ocean water into drinking water for its customers by 2021. The five-acre Doheny desalination plant is proposed for district-owned land alongside San Juan Creek in Dana Point. It could initially produce up to 5 million gallons of water […]
More Rain On The Way; Flood Watch Issued
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Eureka Times-StandardMore rain is on the way. A lot more rain. “That’s really the theme now,” said National Weather Service Eureka meteorologist William Iwasko on Sunday. “… Nice sunny skies probably are not going to happen this week.” So much rain is expected, a flood watch was issued by the weather service for parts of Humboldt, […]
Study: Media Coverage of Drought Spurred California Water Conservation
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)When the California drought began to take hold in 2011, a mysterious thing happened: People began cutting back drastically on their water consumption – even before mandatory conservation was ordered by their local water agencies and state government. Newsha Ajami, director of Urban Water Policy with Stanford University’s Water in the West program, started hearing about this from […]
Recent Storms Raise Lake Oroville Water Level About 4 Feet
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Chico Enterprise-RecordThe storms that blew through Northern California this week raised the water level of Lake Oroville about 4 feet, but it’s a long way from where the spillways might need to be used. The lake started rising about noon on Wednesday, according to the Department of Water Resources website, and in the next 48 hours […]