A year ago, officials were sounding alarms about a bone-dry winter that days later would combine with hurricane-strength winds to bring about the worst fires in Los Angeles history. Now, Southern California just experienced its wettest Christmas in modern history. This Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the rainiest in the modern record for Southern California, according to […]
The president of the Utah State Senate has an idea he thinks could help states along the Colorado River. “What we do in Utah is we solve problems and that’s what we’re in the middle of,” Senate President J. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, said in a recent interview with FOX 13 News. His idea is to […]
California’s biggest water districts presented their own framework Tuesday for how to share the Colorado River’s dwindling water supply, including a commitment to conserve 440,000 acre-feet of water per year – enough to meet the needs of 1.5 million households annually. Last month, the seven western states that rely on the Colorado River missed a federally-imposed […]
The sign outside Tom Hermes’s farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land. For his family, […]
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Climate Promises Are First Thing to Go When San Diego’s Pressed for Cash
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Sierra Stewart /Voice of San Diegoby MacKenzie ElmerWhen budgets are tight, political promises that fight climate change or pollution tend to take a backseat. That’s true nationally, as the climate news publication Heatmap explained last month, pointing out various Democrats in Congress who backed off policies to combat global warming out of concern for the high costs they could impose on voters. San […]
OPINION: A Water District Using Its Own Water Shouldn’t Be Controversial
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Sierra Stewart /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Manny Delgado and Steve Castaneda Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityA water district drawing down water from its own reservoir should not be controversial. It should be expected. That is, quite literally, what reservoirs are built for: to store water in wet times and use it wisely when conditions allow. Yet in recent weeks, after one of the wettest Novembers in recent memory, Sweetwater Authority’s […]
Christmas Eve Storm Could Hit San Diego County With 4 Inches of Rain and 40 Mph Winds
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Sierra Stewart /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Gary RobbinsThe souped-up Pacific storm that will hit San Diego County on Christmas Eve could drop 3 to 4 inches of rain over a short period, making travel dicey and raising the risk of flooding, the National Weather Service said. San Diego averages less than 2 inches of rain in December and hasn’t had a drop […]
No Buyers for San Diego Water … Yet
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Sierra Stewart /Voice of San Diegoby MacKenzie Elmer Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority, Dan DenhamSan Diego arrived in Las Vegas this week ready to sell off some of its excess water at negotiations over the dwindling Colorado River between the states, tribes and farmers who use it. They left without a deal in place.