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.
2014 Farm Bill Still Offers Safety Net Opportunities
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Western Farm Press (St. Charles, Ill.)by Todd FitchetteThe ravages of drought and wildfire over the past couple years in California should be mitigated somewhat by help available through the 2014 Farm Bill. Val Dolcini, administrator of the Farm Service Agency (FSA) toured fire- and drought-damaged locations in California as part of a federal effort to ensure farmers have adequate risk management tools […]
Grass Warfare in L.A.
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Bloomberg Businessweek by Anna Scott“We thought we were doing the right thing to save water,” Staci Terrace Goldfarb, a Southern California homeowner, said late last winter. “I hate looking at it.” It had been a little more than a year since Goldfarb had the small, semicircular lawn in front of her 1960 Cape Cod in the San Fernando Valley […]
BLOG: Comparing Delta Consumptive Use: Preliminary Results From A Blind Model Comparison
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /California WaterBlog (Davis)As California works to improve its official accounting of water for a range of purposes, one major area lacking widely accepted quantification is the consumptive use of water for agriculture, particularly evapotranspiration (ET) from crops. In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, such estimates are important, along with other hydrologic flows, for a variety of water rights, […]
SF Bay Ecosystem Collapsing As Rivers Diverted, Scientists Report
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /SFGate (San Francisco)by Carolyn LochheadEvidence of what scientists are calling the planet’s Sixth Mass Extinction is appearing in San Francisco Bay and its estuary, the largest on the Pacific Coast of North and South America, according to a major new study. So little water is flowing from the rivers that feed the estuary, which includes the Sacramento-San Joaquin River […]
Opinion: San Francisco To State On Water-Use Cutbacks: How Low Can We Go?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /San Francisco Chronicleby Harlan L. Kelly Jr. and Nicole SandkullaDo you think you could reduce your water use by 40 percent? What if we asked for even more than that? This is the type of rationing we can expect during a severe drought if a new proposal from the State Water Resources Control Board is implemented. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is the […]
OPINION: San Francisco’s Turn to Cut Back Water Use To Help Fish
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /San Francisco Chronicleby Spreck RosekransThe contentious struggle to restore threatened fisheries in the San Francisco Bay-Delta and the Central Valley has focused mostly on reducing the amount of water exported from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms and Southern California cities. That’s now changed. The State Water Resources Control Board has asked San Francisco and other communities that withdraw […]