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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.
Opinion: On Water, California And Feds Need To Work Together For The Benefit Of Fish, Farmers And 27 Million People
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /CalMattersby Jason PeltierWe face an important opportunity to finally put the seemingly permanent conflicts that have defined water and environmental management in California behind us, but not if we let it drift away. This new era of opportunity springs from a common recognition that our ways of doing business have failed to meet the needs of all […]
California Storm Parade Continues Friday With More Rain, Feet of Sierra Snow Through The Weekend
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Weather Channel by Jonathan ErdmanAnother Pacific storm will surge into California Friday and last into the weekend wringing out feet of Sierra snow and more rain that could trigger additional flooding and debris flows. Satellite imagery clearly shows the next system waiting in the wings to soak the Golden State beginning Friday. Wednesday’s storm dumped about an inch of […]
Securing SoCal Water to Benefit NorCal Salmon
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Hakai Magazineby Jane Braxton LittleLife is perilous for juvenile chinook salmon just starting their journey to the ocean: predatory striped bass lurk in gin-clear pools; low streamflows limit access to the shrimplike amphipods they feed on; downstream sloughs halt at dead ends. As young fish navigate from spawning grounds in California’s Feather River to the Pacific, climate change is […]
Update: Tahoe Ski Resorts Open More Lifts, Terrain Before Next Snow Dump
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /San Francisco Chronicleby Tom StienstraEarly-season snow is prompting 18 of the 21 major ski areas around Tahoe and the high Sierra to open by this weekend. On Wednesday, snow was falling lightly on the ridges surrounding the Tahoe Basin, and a storm due to arrive this weekend will allow ski areas across the board to open more chairlifts, ski […]
California Must Act Now To Prepare For Sea Level Rise, State Lawmakers Say
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Times by Rosanna XiaThe camera zooms in on the majestic sandy bluffs that make this stretch of the San Diego County coast so iconic: a close-up, everyone realizes, of that cliff crumbling in real time — ancient sand and soft, somewhat cemented rocks tumbling onto the beach below. Moments later, a popular commuter rail rumbles by. Some in […]
As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade Of Tipping Points Looms
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Yale Environment 360by Fred PearceSome of the most alarming science surrounding climate change is the discovery that it may not happen incrementally — as a steadily rising line on a graph — but in a series of lurches as various “tipping points” are passed. And now comes a new concern: These tipping points can form a cascade, with each […]