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 […]
La Niña has arrived, bringing California the possibility of a relatively dry winter. With the state entering its fifth year of drought, the National Weather Service made it official Thursday, following weeks of speculation, declaring that the country will see a winter of La Niña. That’s a weather phenomenon associated with cooler-than-average temperatures in the […]
Stockton native Dino Cortopassi refused to concede on Wednesday, holding onto hope that vote-by-mail and provisional ballots will give his Proposition 53 a comeback win. Prop. 53 trailed 51 percent to 49 percent, or by nearly 250,000 votes statewide. According to published reports there may be millions of votes outstanding. The measure would force a […]
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 […]
La Niña Arrives In California. What That Means For The Drought.
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Sacramento Beeby Dale Kasler and Phillip ReeseLa Niña has arrived, bringing California the possibility of a relatively dry winter. With the state entering its fifth year of drought, the National Weather Service made it official Thursday, following weeks of speculation, declaring that the country will see a winter of La Niña. That’s a weather phenomenon associated with cooler-than-average temperatures in the […]
Cortopassi not about to give up
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Stockton Recordby Alex BreitlerStockton native Dino Cortopassi refused to concede on Wednesday, holding onto hope that vote-by-mail and provisional ballots will give his Proposition 53 a comeback win. Prop. 53 trailed 51 percent to 49 percent, or by nearly 250,000 votes statewide. According to published reports there may be millions of votes outstanding. The measure would force a […]