Officials say they have installed a new emergency siren at a Northern California dam whose damaged spillway forced evacuations earlier this year. The state Department of Water Resources says it will conduct the first test of the new siren at Oroville Dam on Friday. Monthly tests in July and August will follow. The previous siren […]
The scientific community agrees: Climate change is real, it’s driven by human activity, and it’s getting worse. Californians understand this better than most. Having just emerged from a record-breaking drought, likely exacerbated by climate change, we are acutely attuned to the perils of a warming planet. Ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement offered California a […]
Responding to record rainfall that revitalized California’s reservoirs and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, Mountain View City Council members agreed last Tuesday night to drop the last of the city’s drought restrictions. In a unanimous vote at the May 23 meeting, council members rescinded Mountain View’s “stage 1” water use restrictions, which the city […]
Mark Twain is credited with the aphorism, “whiskey’s fer drinkin’ and water’s fer fightin’.” Whether he said that or not, it could almost be the state motto but now the California Legislature is tinkering with the most fundamental – and convoluted – part of California law: water rights. The California Assembly, on an initial 55-0 […]
Santa Barbara has completed a $71 million reactivation of its seawater desalination plant to bolster its water supplies. The city is in a section of California northwest of Los Angeles that received far less precipitation than parts of the state where an extremely rainy and snowy winter brought relief after years of drought. IDE Technologies, […]
The Enterprise-Record/Oroville Mercury-Register got its closest look so far Wednesday at the Oroville Dam spillway work on a site visit hosted by the state Department of Water Resources. The newspaper editorial board, along with a reporter and photographer, were invited to meet with acting DWR Director Bill Croyle; dam safety consultant David Gutierrez; communications and […]
New Emergency Siren Installed at Dam that Forced Evacuations
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Associated Press (As published by ABC10 News)Officials say they have installed a new emergency siren at a Northern California dam whose damaged spillway forced evacuations earlier this year. The state Department of Water Resources says it will conduct the first test of the new siren at Oroville Dam on Friday. Monthly tests in July and August will follow. The previous siren […]
Why Paris Agreement On Climate Change Is Critical For California
/in California and the U.S. /by Andrea Mora /The Fresno Beeby Dorothy LelandThe scientific community agrees: Climate change is real, it’s driven by human activity, and it’s getting worse. Californians understand this better than most. Having just emerged from a record-breaking drought, likely exacerbated by climate change, we are acutely attuned to the perils of a warming planet. Ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement offered California a […]
City Drops Last Of Drought Restrictions
/in California and the U.S. /by Andrea Mora /Mountain View Voice (Palo Alto) by Kevin ForestieriResponding to record rainfall that revitalized California’s reservoirs and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, Mountain View City Council members agreed last Tuesday night to drop the last of the city’s drought restrictions. In a unanimous vote at the May 23 meeting, council members rescinded Mountain View’s “stage 1” water use restrictions, which the city […]
California May Get a New Water Rights Management Structure
/in California and the U.S. /by Andrea Mora /Central Valley Business Times (Stockton)Mark Twain is credited with the aphorism, “whiskey’s fer drinkin’ and water’s fer fightin’.” Whether he said that or not, it could almost be the state motto but now the California Legislature is tinkering with the most fundamental – and convoluted – part of California law: water rights. The California Assembly, on an initial 55-0 […]
Santa Barbara Reactivates Seawater Desalination Plant
/in California and the U.S. /by Andrea Mora /U.S. News & World Report (Washington D.C.)Santa Barbara has completed a $71 million reactivation of its seawater desalination plant to bolster its water supplies. The city is in a section of California northwest of Los Angeles that received far less precipitation than parts of the state where an extremely rainy and snowy winter brought relief after years of drought. IDE Technologies, […]
Newspaper Gets Answers On Exclusive Oroville Dam Site Visit
/in California and the U.S. /by Andrea Mora /Oroville Mercury Registerby Risa JohnsonThe Enterprise-Record/Oroville Mercury-Register got its closest look so far Wednesday at the Oroville Dam spillway work on a site visit hosted by the state Department of Water Resources. The newspaper editorial board, along with a reporter and photographer, were invited to meet with acting DWR Director Bill Croyle; dam safety consultant David Gutierrez; communications and […]