An hour north of Sacramento, in a ghost town tucked into a remote mountain valley, California is poised to build a massive new reservoir – a water project of a size that hasn’t been undertaken since Jerry Brown’s first stint as governor in the 1970s. Sites Reservoir, all $4.4 billion of it, represents an about-face […]
/in California and the U.S./by Mike Lee /The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)by Justin Fox Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
Whenever there’s a drought in California, a seemingly obvious source of new water supply beckons. The state abuts a giant ocean. Why not just take the salt out of some of that seawater? It’s the high-tech, forward-looking thing to do, right? It’s also the really expensive thing to do. Of all the options for increasing […]
The seriousness of our environmental situation today calls for the implementation of new tools and technology, and more focus on outcomes instead of procedure. That’s the idea behind the work done today by the Freshwater Trust (TFT). The organization, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, works to restore the health of watersheds by using very precise environmental accounting. […]
Reducing the amount of water we use to grow our food would go a long way to helping the world’s water stress. At the moment, we use more than two thirds of our water for agriculture. With the United Nations predicting that by 2025 two thirds of us could be living with water scarcity, it […]
California’s iconic native salmon, which has been hard hit by historic drought and high temperatures, avoided a third disastrous year, federal officials said Thursday. The number of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon spawning on the Sacramento River in Northern California and swimming out to sea has doubled from 2015, and it’s significantly up from the prior […]
Gov. Jerry Brown’s Delta tunnels could harm the quality of Stockton’s drinking water to the extent that water rates would need to be doubled or tripled, a city official testified on Thursday. That’s far from certain and wouldn’t happen for decades. But the tunnels are inching closer to approval, and the state’s voluminous reports on […]
Is Sites Reservoir A Savior For The Sacramento Valley – Or A Delta Tunnels Project In Disguise?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow and Dale KaslerAn hour north of Sacramento, in a ghost town tucked into a remote mountain valley, California is poised to build a massive new reservoir – a water project of a size that hasn’t been undertaken since Jerry Brown’s first stint as governor in the 1970s. Sites Reservoir, all $4.4 billion of it, represents an about-face […]
Desalinization Won’t Solve Drought Woes
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)by Justin Fox Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityWhenever there’s a drought in California, a seemingly obvious source of new water supply beckons. The state abuts a giant ocean. Why not just take the salt out of some of that seawater? It’s the high-tech, forward-looking thing to do, right? It’s also the really expensive thing to do. Of all the options for increasing […]
BLOG: How Conservation Is Getting a 21st-Century Overhaul
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /News Deeplyby Tara LohanThe seriousness of our environmental situation today calls for the implementation of new tools and technology, and more focus on outcomes instead of procedure. That’s the idea behind the work done today by the Freshwater Trust (TFT). The organization, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, works to restore the health of watersheds by using very precise environmental accounting. […]
Dry Farming Flourishes In Drought-Stricken California
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /CNNby Natasha Maugder, Isa SoaresReducing the amount of water we use to grow our food would go a long way to helping the world’s water stress. At the moment, we use more than two thirds of our water for agriculture. With the United Nations predicting that by 2025 two thirds of us could be living with water scarcity, it […]
Officials: California Salmon Avoid Catastrophic Year
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Associated Press (As Published by The Washington Times)by Scott SmithCalifornia’s iconic native salmon, which has been hard hit by historic drought and high temperatures, avoided a third disastrous year, federal officials said Thursday. The number of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon spawning on the Sacramento River in Northern California and swimming out to sea has doubled from 2015, and it’s significantly up from the prior […]
Twin Tunnels: City Warns Of Harm To Drinking Water
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Stockton Recordby Alex BreitlerGov. Jerry Brown’s Delta tunnels could harm the quality of Stockton’s drinking water to the extent that water rates would need to be doubled or tripled, a city official testified on Thursday. That’s far from certain and wouldn’t happen for decades. But the tunnels are inching closer to approval, and the state’s voluminous reports on […]