As fishermen and scientists chase tropical tuna and marlin that have drifted into San Diego’s unusually warm waters during the past two years, they’ve encountered something else they’ve never seen: flotillas of loggerhead sea turtles bobbing off the California coast. “This is the first account we’ve seen of so many loggerhead turtles in the history […]
An annual study finds high bacteria levels and low oxygen levels in creeks and streams of inland San Diego County, and concludes water quality is suffering amid the ongoing drought. The Los Angeles Times says the 2015 San Diego Coastkeeper report released this week ranked the inland water quality as fair to poor – with no […]
The weather phenomenon known as El Nino is fading, and drought conditions remain entrenched in San Diego and the rest of California, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced a 75 percent chance that a La Nina pattern could form in El Nino’s […]
“If you’re going to be serious about using markets to allocate water, the first thing you have to do is let the market determine the price,” says Reed Watson, the executive director at the Property and Environment Research Center, or PERC, a nonprofit think tank based in Bozeman, Montana. If California wants to ease the effects […]
Fleets of Turtles Swim Warming Seas
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribune by By Deborah Sullivan BrennanAs fishermen and scientists chase tropical tuna and marlin that have drifted into San Diego’s unusually warm waters during the past two years, they’ve encountered something else they’ve never seen: flotillas of loggerhead sea turtles bobbing off the California coast. “This is the first account we’ve seen of so many loggerhead turtles in the history […]
Drought Harming Water Quality in Inland San Diego County
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)An annual study finds high bacteria levels and low oxygen levels in creeks and streams of inland San Diego County, and concludes water quality is suffering amid the ongoing drought. The Los Angeles Times says the 2015 San Diego Coastkeeper report released this week ranked the inland water quality as fair to poor – with no […]
El Nino Conditions Fading; Drought Still Alive in California
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Times of San Diego by by Hoa QuachThe weather phenomenon known as El Nino is fading, and drought conditions remain entrenched in San Diego and the rest of California, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, announced a 75 percent chance that a La Nina pattern could form in El Nino’s […]
The Solution to California’s Drought: A Free Market in Water
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Reason (Los Angeles) by By Alex Manning“If you’re going to be serious about using markets to allocate water, the first thing you have to do is let the market determine the price,” says Reed Watson, the executive director at the Property and Environment Research Center, or PERC, a nonprofit think tank based in Bozeman, Montana. If California wants to ease the effects […]