California’s latest drought has made the need for additional water storage self-evident to a larger segment of the population. So much so that lawmakers were pressured into putting a new water bond on the ballot – albeit smaller than the plan approved several years earlier that lawmakers refused to let voters decide upon. Perhaps the […]
On Wednesday morning, while facing the Yolo Bypass brimming with water, a group of water district managers, farmers and fish biologists stood atop Wallace Weir and delivered what seemed almost unthinkable at the end of February — good news about the California water supply. A string of storms in March has inundated the North State’s […]
Reduziert is the German word for “reduced.” You could use to it to refer to any kind of reduction: of light, mass, calories. But if you’ve ever walked through a German mall after Christmas, you’ll also have seen the word splashed across signs and windows of stores desperately offloading their merchandise. It’s the German equivalent […]
A contract for a pilot program that would leave some of Pueblo’s water on the Western Slope was approved Tuesday by the Pueblo Board of Water Works. Pueblo Water will leave 200 acre-feet (65 million gallons) of water from the Ewing Ditch for a fee of about $134,000 as part of an $11 million pilot […]
The drought isn’t over, but the recent storms that many hope are part of a “March miracle” have put California a lot further down the road to recovery. By Monday, seasonal rainfall jumped above the historic average across much of the state — uncommon territory over the past four years — with San Francisco notching […]
Rick Williams stood on his dead front lawn near Sacramento, California, wondering why he still pays a drought surcharge on his water bill and cannot run his sprinklers as often as he needs when a nearby reservoir is so full it could overflow come spring. After four years of catastrophic drought and nearly a year […]
Could Sites be California’s next big reservoir?
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Western Farm Pressby Todd FitchetteCalifornia’s latest drought has made the need for additional water storage self-evident to a larger segment of the population. So much so that lawmakers were pressured into putting a new water bond on the ballot – albeit smaller than the plan approved several years earlier that lawmakers refused to let voters decide upon. Perhaps the […]
Water outlook: From ‘doom and gloom’ to ‘pretty positive’
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Appeal-Democrat (Marysville)by Andrew CreaseyOn Wednesday morning, while facing the Yolo Bypass brimming with water, a group of water district managers, farmers and fish biologists stood atop Wallace Weir and delivered what seemed almost unthinkable at the end of February — good news about the California water supply. A string of storms in March has inundated the North State’s […]
Photographing California at Its Most Diminished
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /CityLab (Washington, D.C.)by Laura BlissReduziert is the German word for “reduced.” You could use to it to refer to any kind of reduction: of light, mass, calories. But if you’ve ever walked through a German mall after Christmas, you’ll also have seen the word splashed across signs and windows of stores desperately offloading their merchandise. It’s the German equivalent […]
Pueblo board approves plan to leave some of its water on Western Slope as part of study
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.)by BY CHRIS WOODKAA contract for a pilot program that would leave some of Pueblo’s water on the Western Slope was approved Tuesday by the Pueblo Board of Water Works. Pueblo Water will leave 200 acre-feet (65 million gallons) of water from the Ewing Ditch for a fee of about $134,000 as part of an $11 million pilot […]
Rain Fills Reservoirs, But California Still Suffers Drought’s Effects
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /SFGateby By Kurtis AlexanderThe drought isn’t over, but the recent storms that many hope are part of a “March miracle” have put California a lot further down the road to recovery. By Monday, seasonal rainfall jumped above the historic average across much of the state — uncommon territory over the past four years — with San Francisco notching […]
California Water Cutbacks Draw Flood of Complaints as Reservoirs Rise
/in California and the U.S. /by Mike Lee /Reuters (As Published by Yahoo News)by By Sharon BernsteinRick Williams stood on his dead front lawn near Sacramento, California, wondering why he still pays a drought surcharge on his water bill and cannot run his sprinklers as often as he needs when a nearby reservoir is so full it could overflow come spring. After four years of catastrophic drought and nearly a year […]