The U.S. Drought Monitor released May 5 shows some minor improvement in California drought conditions. But looking ahead to the dry season shows drought persisting for a fifth consecutive year in the Golden State. In California, some moderate drought was removed in the northern portion of the state. The extreme northwest portion of the state […]
Louie Campos stopped drinking the water from his faucets in Visalia, California, so long ago that it takes him a minute to recall just how many years it has been since he held a glass to the tap and took a swill. By his closest approximation, the plainspoken 43-year-old has ripped through a 24-pack of […]
My husband and I took a road trip a few weeks ago, driving from Los Altos down to Bakersfield on Interstate 5 and then east to Sedona, Ariz., returning via Bakersfield and then up Highway 101. As far as the Pacheco Pass, the landscape was lyrically green with oaks and buckeyes sporting fresh foliage, and […]
Flowing over 250 miles to from the high desert of southern Oregon through the Cascades Mountains before emptying out into the Pacific Ocean in northern California, the Klamath River and its Coho and Chinook salmon and steelhead runs were vital to Native American tribes for thousands of years before settlers arrived. But within decades of […]
When things go wrong — especially if they go really, historically wrong — people tend to look for answers. So when California entered the fourth year of one of the worst droughts the state had ever seen, everyone — the media, politicians, scientists — wanted to know what had gone wrong. In the process, a […]
California faces major changes in its water supply. The sooner everyone realizes these changes are coming, the better the state will be able to cope with what lies ahead. Today’s changes are driven by efforts to end groundwater depletion, by sea level rise and loss of snowpack, salts and nitrate accumulating in groundwater, new invasive […]
Long-Term Drought Persists In California
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)by By Ed JoyceThe U.S. Drought Monitor released May 5 shows some minor improvement in California drought conditions. But looking ahead to the dry season shows drought persisting for a fifth consecutive year in the Golden State. In California, some moderate drought was removed in the northern portion of the state. The extreme northwest portion of the state […]
BLOG: Unknown, Unregulated, Undrinkable
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Pacific Standardby Madeleine ThomasLouie Campos stopped drinking the water from his faucets in Visalia, California, so long ago that it takes him a minute to recall just how many years it has been since he held a glass to the tap and took a swill. By his closest approximation, the plainspoken 43-year-old has ripped through a 24-pack of […]
OPINION: It’s still About the Water: A Piece of My Mind
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Los Altos Town Crierby By Allyson JohnsonMy husband and I took a road trip a few weeks ago, driving from Los Altos down to Bakersfield on Interstate 5 and then east to Sedona, Ariz., returning via Bakersfield and then up Highway 101. As far as the Pacheco Pass, the landscape was lyrically green with oaks and buckeyes sporting fresh foliage, and […]
Undamming this major U.S. River is Opening a World of Possibility for Native Cultures and Wildlife
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Fusion (Doral, Fla.)by By Renee LewisFlowing over 250 miles to from the high desert of southern Oregon through the Cascades Mountains before emptying out into the Pacific Ocean in northern California, the Klamath River and its Coho and Chinook salmon and steelhead runs were vital to Native American tribes for thousands of years before settlers arrived. But within decades of […]
Inside the Fight to Rehabilitate the Image of California’s Most Infamous Crop
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Think Progress (Washington, D.C.)by by Natasha GeilingWhen things go wrong — especially if they go really, historically wrong — people tend to look for answers. So when California entered the fourth year of one of the worst droughts the state had ever seen, everyone — the media, politicians, scientists — wanted to know what had gone wrong. In the process, a […]
State must brace for big water supply changes
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Fresno Beeby Jay LundCalifornia faces major changes in its water supply. The sooner everyone realizes these changes are coming, the better the state will be able to cope with what lies ahead. Today’s changes are driven by efforts to end groundwater depletion, by sea level rise and loss of snowpack, salts and nitrate accumulating in groundwater, new invasive […]