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.
With standards relaxed, water use on the rise throughout California
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler and Phillip ReeseCalifornians continued to backslide on water conservation during the hottest summer on record, worrying regulators and frustrating environmentalists critical of a new policy enacted this spring that allows most urban water districts to avoid mandatory cuts in water use. On Wednesday, the State Water Resources Control Board announced that conservation in urban California in August […]
OPINION: Flora Not Blinded By Tunnel Vision, Would Protect Our Water
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Modesto Beeby Kenneth Groves, Jr.Why does Jerry Brown desire to send Northern California water south? The governor has a seriously poor sense of direction. Sacramento bureaucrats have no right to assume the power to re-direct river water from Northern California farmland, demanding to send the water to the Delta strictly for the survival of fish and, ultimately, out to […]
Project Underway To Prevent Straying Of Adult Sacramento River Salmon
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Daily Democrat (Woodland)Yet another hazard to migratory salmon will disappear soon, when local, state, and federal officials finish building a permanent, fish-friendly weir in the Yolo Bypass.The Wallace Weir Fish Rescue project, located four miles northwest of Woodland and near Knights Landing, will help prevent adult Sacramento River salmon from swimming into a drainage ditch that leads […]
Scientists Take To The Air To Look For Water Under The Ground
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /KBAK (Bakersfield)by Carol FergusonA low-flying helicopter is circling above the community of Lost Hills, checking for water below the ground. The flights are being done by U.S. Geological Survey researchers on behalf of state water officials, and the work will continue next near Buttonwillow. Officials say they’re developing 3D maps of where there’s fresh and salty groundwater in […]
OPINION: Time to Stop the Backsliding on California’s Water Conservation
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento BeeThe drought persists. This summer was the hottest on record. Last month, a National Weather Service meteorologist called the chance of adequate winter rainfall this year “a crapshoot.” Farmers in the Central Valley are pumping groundwater like there’s no tomorrow. And they may not be wrong; it’s not for nothing that the rest of the […]
Water Contractors Sue Federal Government For $350 Million
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /KBAK (Bakersfield)Seventeen California water districts have filed a lawsuit for $350 million against the federal government for not delivering water to contractors in the drought year of 2014. The Fresno Bee reports that the districts in the San Joaquin Valley and the city of Fresno filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims […]