The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project began water year 2017 on Oct. 1 with 4.9 million acre-feet of water in its six key reservoirs. The amount is 2 million acre-feet more than was in storage at the beginning of water year 2016, federal officials announced. The amount of storage in the key reservoirs […]
California’s sewage treatment plants produce billions of gallons of wastewater every year, nearly all of it dumped into rivers or the Pacific Ocean like garbage. And this is how it’s done all over the U.S.and most of the world. But what if we began looking at treated sewage, instead, as a valuable resource? That’s what David Jassby […]
Officials with the National Weather Service are predicting rain toward the end of the week in the Bay Area. Rain could move into the area Thursday night and spread south from the North Bay on Friday. This is the rainy season’s first atmospheric river, which is region in the atmosphere responsible for bringing water vapor […]
The 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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
Bureau of Reclamation Increases Storage At Key Central Valley Reservoirs
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /WaterWorld Magazine (Tulsa, Okla.)The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project began water year 2017 on Oct. 1 with 4.9 million acre-feet of water in its six key reservoirs. The amount is 2 million acre-feet more than was in storage at the beginning of water year 2016, federal officials announced. The amount of storage in the key reservoirs […]
BLOG: Custom Irrigation: How Treated Sewage Could Be Perfect for Crops
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Matt WeiserCalifornia’s sewage treatment plants produce billions of gallons of wastewater every year, nearly all of it dumped into rivers or the Pacific Ocean like garbage. And this is how it’s done all over the U.S.and most of the world. But what if we began looking at treated sewage, instead, as a valuable resource? That’s what David Jassby […]
Rain In The Forecast This Week, Davis
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Davis PatchOfficials with the National Weather Service are predicting rain toward the end of the week in the Bay Area. Rain could move into the area Thursday night and spread south from the North Bay on Friday. This is the rainy season’s first atmospheric river, which is region in the atmosphere responsible for bringing water vapor […]
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, […]