California’s attempt to exert tighter control over groundwater use, the purpose of a landmark 2014 state law, was designed to be a compromise between state authority and local oversight. The tension dogged the writing of the law two years ago, and is playing out again as the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) drafts the […]
Thunder and lightning hit the north valley this week and flashing, booming skies could continue through Saturday evening. “There’s an unsettled pattern, we do have a large trough of low pressure over the West Coast right now,” said Karl Swanberg, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office. “These enhanced features, they just rotate […]
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 […]
BLOG: California Groundwater Regulation Hangs on a Few Words
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Circle of Blue by By Brett WaltonCalifornia’s attempt to exert tighter control over groundwater use, the purpose of a landmark 2014 state law, was designed to be a compromise between state authority and local oversight. The tension dogged the writing of the law two years ago, and is playing out again as the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) drafts the […]
More Thunderstorms Due; Lake Oroville Could Keep Rising
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Chico Enterprise-Recordby By Dan ReidelThunder and lightning hit the north valley this week and flashing, booming skies could continue through Saturday evening. “There’s an unsettled pattern, we do have a large trough of low pressure over the West Coast right now,” said Karl Swanberg, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office. “These enhanced features, they just rotate […]
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 […]