I Love My Lawn. Can I Keep It Without Feeling Guilty?
Rip it all out, she said. Every blade of grass, frontyard and back. As soon as my wife heard the city was offering a rebate, she wanted to replace our lawns with bark mulch and bunchgrass.
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Battle Rages Over ‘Sweetheart Deal’ Between Trump Administration and Giant Water District
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Ian JamesCritics call it a “sweetheart deal” between the Trump administration and the Central Valley’s largest agricultural water district, and they claim it unfairly lines the pockets of major farm owners while imperiling California salmon and other fish species.
Proposed New Water Rules Aim to Mitigate Impact of Vineyards
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Northern California Public Media by Noah AbramsA state water regulators meeting…not the kind of thing that makes you think “I’ve got to be there.”
But with new environmental rules on the table for vineyards across Sonoma and Mendocino, there was hardly an empty seat to be found at the latest gathering of the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Long-Term Drought and Near-Term Heat Wave Take Toll on Arizona’s Desert Ecology
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /NBC Newsby Evan BushFrank Reichenbacher worries it will soon be over for his Tumamoc globeberry — a rare Sonoran desert vine that features a fruit that looks like a tiny watermelon and tastes like dirt.
For 41 years, Reichenbacher, an associate researcher at the University of Arizona’s Tumamoc Desert Lab, has followed the same three patches of the rare plants in southern Arizona — including one on Tucson’s Tumamoc Hill.
UA Program to Help Farmers Conserve Water Through Irrigation Systems, Crop Selection
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /KJZZby Ron DunganAbout three-fourths of Arizona’s water supply goes to agriculture, and policy makers say the state needs to address that fact as it confronts a shrinking Colorado River.
That’s why a University of Arizona program is helping farmers use water more efficiently.
Colorado River Drought Behind Rural-Urban Tensions in the Centennial State
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Daily Yonder by Austin CoronaWestern Colorado rancher Bill Fales said he thinks that California will come for Colorado’s water someday soon.
IID Looks To Improve Efficiency Of On-Farm Efficiency Conservation Program
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Imperial Valley Press by Marcia LanderosThe Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors took a hard look at their On-Farm Efficiency Conservation Program (On-Farm) in the hopes that they can become more efficient at providing water efficiency savings for farmers.
IID Senior Program Manager Ben Brock, along with Water Department Manager Tina Shields, updated the Board of Directors on the lengthy and complicated process that the On-Farm program currently has perform in order to determine how much to pay farmers for the water they conserved during the IID Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday, July 26.
Drought is Hitting Black Farmers Hard
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The San Diego Voice & Viewpointby Maya Richard-CravenWith the phrase “heat dome” entering our vocabulary and more than 2,300 heat records smashed so far this summer, extreme temperatures are endangering our lives. And for farmers, the scorching hot, dry weather also threatens their livelihoods.
State Pays Valley Farmers Millions to Keep Water in the Ground
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /SJV Waterby Jesse VadThe state is sending millions to farmers throughout the San Joaquin Valley to keep water in the ground.
The money, paid through the LandFlex program, goes to groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) and then directly to farmers, paying them for every acre foot they don’t pump.
Every Drop Counts: Water-Wise Landscaping and Design Takes Creativity
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Andrea Mora /Pasadena Weekly by Morgan OwenHaving an eco-friendly yard doesn’t have to mean replacing a lawn with sand and succulents. Ann-Marie Benz, California Native Plant Society’s horticulture program manager, says creating a drought-resilient landscape has a bad reputation. Creating a native, water-wise yard can be rewarding — and done with a personal flair.
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