A new wave of natural gas power plants planned for Southern California has stoked a high-stakes debate about how best to keep the lights on throughout the region. While green groups believe renewable energy has received short shrift by utilities proposing these facilities from Carlsbad to Oxnard, operators of the state’s electrical grid have warned […]
In the fourth year of California’s current drought, the absence of water has clearly affected our state, evident by the dead grass of front lawns, water usage limitations, and the ever-present lack of rain. Today, we can mitigate some of these problems with our modern infrastructure, siphoning water from elsewhere and distributing it throughout the […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Alastair Bland Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant
A postwar refugee exodus to Palestine made Israel in 1948. Then, Israel made water. The new nation had to. Its population exploded, placing extreme demand on land and water resources. For the production of food, especially, efficient use of water, and producing more where resources lagged, were essential. Author Seth Siegel’s 2015 book “Let There Be […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /PolitiFact (Washington, D.C.)by Chris Nichols Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has called solving California’s water wars one of the toughest challenges of her career. Tougher, she says, than passing a federal assault weapons ban in 1994. But the reason the 82-year-old lawmaker says she keeps pushing is simple: The state’s water infrastructure is outdated and its drought emergency persists. She […]
New Natural Gas Projects Spark Debate on Power
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribune by Joshua Emerson SmithA new wave of natural gas power plants planned for Southern California has stoked a high-stakes debate about how best to keep the lights on throughout the region. While green groups believe renewable energy has received short shrift by utilities proposing these facilities from Carlsbad to Oxnard, operators of the state’s electrical grid have warned […]
California’s Water: A Look Back in Time
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /New University (UC Irvine)by Hubert TaIn the fourth year of California’s current drought, the absence of water has clearly affected our state, evident by the dead grass of front lawns, water usage limitations, and the ever-present lack of rain. Today, we can mitigate some of these problems with our modern infrastructure, siphoning water from elsewhere and distributing it throughout the […]
BLOG: What California Can Learn From Israel About Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Water Deeply (New York)by Alastair Bland Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination PlantA postwar refugee exodus to Palestine made Israel in 1948. Then, Israel made water. The new nation had to. Its population exploded, placing extreme demand on land and water resources. For the production of food, especially, efficient use of water, and producing more where resources lagged, were essential. Author Seth Siegel’s 2015 book “Let There Be […]
Does California ‘Have the Same Water Infrastructure’ as it Did in the 1960s?
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /PolitiFact (Washington, D.C.)by Chris Nichols Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination PlantU.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has called solving California’s water wars one of the toughest challenges of her career. Tougher, she says, than passing a federal assault weapons ban in 1994. But the reason the 82-year-old lawmaker says she keeps pushing is simple: The state’s water infrastructure is outdated and its drought emergency persists. She […]