California and the U.S.
The latest news and analysis covering water issues in Caliornia and the rest of the United States.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
California Water Cutbacks Could Take Large Area of Farmland Out of Production
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /National Public Radio (NPR)by Kerry KleinThe state of California is gearing up to regulate its groundwater. By some estimates, water cutbacks could result in half a million acres of farmland taken out of production.
Opinion: Newsom is Being Played by Big Ag on Delta Water
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Jose Mercury Newsby Editorial BoardHe won’t admit it, but Gavin Newsom is being played by Big Ag interests as he tries fruitlessly to negotiate a truce in California’s water wars. The governor’s apparent willingness to play into the hands of monied, agri-business players at the expense of the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta remains the biggest mystery […]
California’s Wet Again, The Snowpack Looks Good and Ski Resorts Are Happy. Will It Last?
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Sacramento Beeby Ryan SabalowJust a few weeks ago, it was one of the driest starts to the rainy season in modern California history. PG&E was shutting off power to tens of thousands of Californians as dangerously dry fire weather dragged on nearly to Thanksgiving.
Opinion: California Can Solve its Water Shortage With the Water We Have. Here’s How
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /CalMattersby Heather CooleyCalifornia is at a water crossroads. We can continue our costly, 100-year-old pattern of trying to find new water supplies, or we can choose instead to focus on smarter ways of using – and reusing – what we already have. With a population projected to top 50 million by mid-century, a booming economy and a […]
Opinion: Newsom Can’t Have It Both Ways On California Water
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Los Angeles Times by Editorial BoardIt’s been a month since Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to sue the Trump administration to block stepped-up federal water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to agribusiness and urban areas further south.
Opinion: On the Anniversary of John Muir’s Death, A Wish To See Hetch Hetchy Restored
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /The Fresno Beeby Barbara MossbergFor days of infamy — Pearl Harbor and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — December has a handful. In this list of national anguish two anniversaries of deaths loom. One hundred and six years ago: on Dec. 2, 1913, Congress passed 43-25 (with 29 abstentions) a law drowning Hetch Hetchy, the natural twin of […]