Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: We Have Seen The Future Of Water, And It Is Cape Town 02.09.2018 – Cape Town is parched. Severe drought and high water use have collided in South Africa’s second largest city…Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: Cape Town Is Running out of Water. Could More Cities Be Next? 02.08.2018 – After more than three years of severe drought, Cape Town, a city of nearly 4 million people, is running…Read More. |
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Cape Town is Running Out of Water. Is Los Angeles Next? 02.06.2018 – There’s an expression in Afrikaans, n boer maak a plan, which roughly translates to “a farmer makes…Read More. |
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Circular Water Management: Still a Drop in the Bucket 02.05.2018 – While the risks associated with water are widely known within large businesses, the majority of companies…Read More. |
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Cape Town’s Water Restrictions Now Limit Residents to Absolute Minimum Needed for Survival 02.01.2018 – Cape Town is trying to make a little bit of water go a long way. Its reservoirs are down…Read More. |
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Winter Heat Wave Bakes the Southwest, Bringing Renewed Worries of Severe Drought 01.30.2018 – The pear trees are already blooming in Celeste Cantú’s garden. She usually sees the blossoms…Read More. |
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California Water: Desalination Projects Move Forward with New State Funding 01.30.2018 – California water officials have approved $34.4 million in grants to eight desalination projects…Read More. |
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Evian Will Make All Its Water Bottles Out Of 100% Recycled Plastic 01.18.2018 – Can the bottled water industry solve its sustainability problem…Read More. |
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Reno’s Warming Trend Continued in 2017 and Hindered Snowfall 01.09.2018 – Last year was the wettest on record in Reno and among the warmest. The 13.73 inches of precipitation …Read More. |
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Tahoe Snowpack Third-Lightest Since 1981 12.28.2017 – What a difference a year makes. The winter of 2017-18 is off to a slow start in the Sierra Nevada, a stark contrast …Read More. |
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Recycling More Water Could Reduce the Amount Flowing to the Salton Sea, Environmentalists Warn 12.08.2017 – The Coachella Valley’s biggest water district recycles wastewater at three of its six sewage treatment …Read More. |
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Executive Summary for December 1st 12.1.2017 – California begins its rainy season with only 15 percent of the state in moderate drought …Read More. |
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Can a New Salton Sea Plan Fend Off Ecological and Health Disasters? 11.10.2017 – State officials are moving forward with a strategy for a “smaller but sustainable Salton Sea,” but …Read More. |
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White House-Approved Report Says Climate Change is ‘Extremely Likely’ to be Caused by Human Activity 11.03.2017 – The US government released Friday a major scientific report that says climate change is “extremely likely” to be…Read More. |
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Our Voice: California Must Build on Salton Sea Momentum 10.28.2017 – After far too many years lost to the indecisiveness of “let’s do yet another study,” momentum finally seems to be …Read More. |
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Salton Sea Communities “No Longer a Good Place to Live” for Those with Respiratory Issues 10.26.2017 – Nancy Johnson has lived near the Salton Sea her entire life. Her grandparents originally moved to the …Read More. |
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Survey: Business Water Management Efforts Are Still a Drop in the Bucket 10.23.2017 – By the year 2030, water demand is expected to exceed sustainable supply by 40 percent, but only 42 percent…Read More. |
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The U.S. Could Have Avoided Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis 10.20.2017 – The numbers associated with the current situation in Puerto Rico, one month after Hurricane Maria struck…Read More. |
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California Hepatitis Outbreak Has Killed 19 People 10.20.2017 – In response to a hepatitis A outbreak that was incubated in unsanitary conditions among the homeless, Gov. Jerry…Read More. |
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Pacific Institute Celebrates 30 Years of Groundbreaking Environmental Research 10.13.2017 – Peter Gleick stood up in a crowded assembly hall on the edge of downtown Oakland holding Pacific Institute’s first publication…Read More. |
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Scared of Geoengineering? Rapid Arctic Warming is Far Scarier 10.12.2017 – The possibility that humans will tinker with nature to try to stop climate change from ravaging the planet has filmmaker…Read More. |
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Islamic State Occupation Wrecks Iraq Environment and Infrastructure 10.03.2017 – For nine months the Qayarrah oil field burned. Smoke from 18 oil wells that Islamic State militants blew up…Read More. |
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Banking on California’s Floodwater 10.02.2017 – California’s agricultural wealth comes at the expense of its groundwater reserves, which have been drawn downward at a rate of about…Read More. |
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We Are All at Risk From Poisonous Mercury. It’s time to take action 09.29.2017 – Mercury is far more pervasive than most people realise, and we have no idea how many people…Read More. |
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This Snap-On Sensor Could Tell Farmers Exactly How Much To Water Their Crops 09.27.2017 – In 2010, scientists at California’s Pacific Institute, a global water think tank, defined a condition Earth could face…Read More. |
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Two Major Cities Demand Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Climate Damages 09.20.2017 – San Francisco and Oakland join a growing movement aiming to hold fossil fuel companies accountable through…Read More. |
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Deep Drought Stirred Action on California’s Right To Water 09.12.2017 – Though the nation’s first state law to assure the human right to safe water and sanitation was enacted in …Read More. |
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Our Voice: Leaders Hone Their Focus on the Salton Sea 09.09.2017 – There was another sign that Sacramento is feeling increasing urgency when it comes to solving the problem that is the…Read More. |
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Opinion: Delta Twin Tunnel ‘WaterFix’ Bad for Santa Clara County, Won’t Fix Anything 09.08.2017 – The League of Women Voters of California opposes the WaterFix—twin tunnels the Department of Water Resources proposes…Read More. |
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Agencies Urge California Water Board to Approve Salton Sea Agreement 09.07.2017 – Three agencies are urging California’s top water regulators to approve an agreement that would commit the state to following…Read More. |
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With Drought Restrictions Long Gone, California Keeps Conserving Water 09.06.2017 – Although there’s been some uptick in consumption since mandatory water conservation measures… Read More. |
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‘Show me the Money’: Calls for Action as California Water Board Considers Salton Sea Plans 09.06.2017 – With less than four months left until a critical deadline when the Salton Sea will begin to shrink rapidly, residents and activists …Read More. |
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Drought’s Over, Yet Californians Keep Saving Water 09.06.2017 – Good habits die hard, it seems, after five years of epic drought – for most Californians, anyway. …Read More. |
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‘Not One Drop’ of Poland Spring Bottled Water is From a Spring, Lawsuit Says 08.22.2017 – Poland Spring, the country’s bestselling bottled water, is “a colossal fraud,” according to a class-action lawsuit..Read More. |
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Poison Once Flowed in America’s Waters. With Trump, It Might Again 08.14.2017 – As a scientist working for decades on national and global water and climate challenges, I must speak out against what I see as an assault…Read More. |
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Federal Climate Report Finds ‘Extreme’ Conditions, Despite Trump’s Cold Shoulder 08.10.2017 – A new federal report could again challenge the Trump administration’s dismissive stance…Read More. |
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Federal Report sees Human-caused Changes to California’s Climate 08.08.2017 – The changes to California’s climate since 1980 — higher temperatures, with more extreme swings between droughts and floods…Read More. |
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How California Can and Must Stop Wasting its Storm Water 07.26.2017 – Californians have moved heaven and earth to get water to the state’s thirsty cities and farms. We pipe water through the nation’s longest aqueducts…Read More. |
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California Locales Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Rising Seas 07.18.2017 – The locales say that actions by oil, natural gas and coal companies intensified climate change …Read More. |
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5 Things to Know About the Iceberg 07.13.2017 – It’s finally adrift. When the Larsen C Ice Shelf calved yesterday, it sent one of the largest icebergs ever recorded slipping into a sea frosted with smaller chunks …Read More. |
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The Next Crisis for California Will be the Affordability of Water 07.07.2017 – The price of almost everything is on the rise, but we tend to shrug off inflation in goods and services we can cut back or do …Read More. |
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Let’s Drink: Scenic Water Fountains and Why It’s Radical to Use Them 06.22.2017 – In 2005, Nestlé Group CEO Peter Brabeck was filmed saying, “The one opinion [is that] water is a public right. That as a human being …Read More. |
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Water and National U.S. Security 06.15.2017 – Around 2500 BC, Urlama, the King of the city-state of Lagash, diverted water from boundary irrigation canals between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Heather Cooley: Why Go for Desal When California Has Cheaper Options? 06.14.2017 – While winter rains have refilled California reservoirs and dumped near-record snow on the mountains, communities across the state are wisely seeking ways …Read More. |
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Water And Conflict: Fighting Wars Over A Precious Resource 06.13.2017 – We have been fighting wars over the most valuable resource on the planet since thousands of years B.C. We speak today of water wars …Read More. |
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Two Paths for Long-Term Fixes at California’s Shrinking Sea 06.12.2017 – Near the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea, hot steam bubbles up from the earth and gurgles out of mud volcanos, rising into the air …Read More. |
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California Far from Solutions as Salton Sea Crisis Looms 06.12.2017 – The Salton Sea is a disaster in slow motion. For the last few years, California, Arizona and Nevada have been working on a deal to use less water from the over-allocated Colorado River, which provides water for nearly …Read More. |
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The Challenge of Measuring Groundwater in California’s Central Valley 06.02.2017 – A new study estimates that around 9.5 cubic miles of groundwater was pumped from the region …Read More. |
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As Political Pressure for Approval Intensifies, the Case for a Big Desalination Plant Remains Cloudy 05.19.2017 – You can surmise that a business is running into trouble when it starts lining up political …Read More. |
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How the Colorado River’s Future Depends on the Salton Sea 05.16.2017 – California’s giant desert lake is key to negotiations over the future of Colorado River …Read More. |
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California’s Drought Is over, but We’re Still Toting up the Costs 04.26.2017 – It’s been quite a wet season in Sacramento. The National Weather Service Sacramento forecasters have compiled some stats …Read More. |
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Season of the Switch 04.26.2017 – The good news: After five years of historic drought, California is awash in water again. The bad news: Schizophrenic …Read More. |
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California’s Wet Year Eases Drought but Many Still Lack Water 04.17.2017 – Just a week after Governor Jerry Brown declared the end of the California drought emergency, the northern half of …Read More. |
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How the Drought Changed California Forever 04.15.2017 – California’s historic five-year drought is officially over, washed away with the relentlessly drenching rains, floods and snowstorms of …Read More. |
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Drought Declared Over, so Why Does Water Future Look Grim? 04.10.2017 – California’s historic drought is over, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Friday, while simultaneously launching a bid to enshrine water …Read More. |
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California Governor Lifts Drought Emergency 04.07.2017 – California Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of the state’s drought emergency Friday …Read More. |
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Graphene Oxide: A Better Membrane, but No ‘Silver Bullet’ for Desalination 04.07.2017 – A new membrane marks a step forward for desalination technology. But it still faces a challenging …Read More. |
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The Battle to Save Public Drinking Fountains from Extinction 04.06.2017 – Concerns about water quality and contamination have led to the decline of public water-fountain use …Read More. |
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Americans’ Fears About Water Pollution Hit A 16-Year High 04.03.2017 – A new poll finds Americans are more concerned about their drinking water than they are about any other …Read More. |
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California’s Drought May Be Over, But Its Water Troubles Aren’t 03.21.2017 – In the years before California’s civil engineers got around to confining the Sacramento River …Read More. |
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How Hydroelectric Power has Roared Back in California 03.20.2017 – After slowing to a trickle during the past five years of punishing drought, hydroelectric power …Read More. |
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State Unveils a 10-year Plan to Restore Habitat and Control Toxic Dust Storms Along the Salton Sea’s Receding Shoreline 03.17.2017 – Salton Sea advocates on Thursday cautiously celebrated the announcement of a 10-year state plan to complete …Read More. |
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California has a New $383 Million Plan for the Shrinking Salton Sea 03.16.2017 – A $383 million plan released by the state’s Natural Resources Agency on Thursday lays out a schedule for building thousands of acres of ponds …Read More. |
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Why Solar Panels Bloom in Southwest’s Land of Hydropower 03.14.2017 – Electric utilities are seeking a new power mix, as shifts in precipitation diminish the role that dams have long played …Read More. |
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California Today: Why the State’s Biggest Lake Is Dying 03.07.2017 – California’s biggest lake, about 350 square miles, is dying. It’s not the first time. The Salton Sea, straddling the …Read More. |
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California’s Wild Climate Will Only Get More Volatile As Temperatures Rise 03.03.2017 – To understand how climate change is creating a world of extremes, look to California, where the reality of severe drought coupled with …Read More. |
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California’s Huge Storms Still Haven’t Ended the Drought’s Impacts 02.24.2017 – Several feet of dirty brown water flows through the fields outside Andrew Lockman’s truck window as he surveys the damage from the recent storms. …Read More. |
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Did the Drought Contribute to Severe Flooding in San Jose? Officials Search for Answers 02.23.2017 – For five long, drought-plagued winters, Mother Nature refused to refill Coyote Creek. Foliage filled its dry bed, and …Read More. |
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The Oroville Dam Crisis Has Exposed A Much Bigger Problem 02.23.2017 – When the overflowing Oroville Dam in Northern California was threatened due to damage sustained to its spillways …Read More. |
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California’s Wet Weather has Some Believing the Drought is Over 02.22.2017 – A statewide downpour brought chaos to Californians this week, but it also provided some welcome relief to the state’s …Read More. |
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Extreme Droughts and Floods will be California’s Future — Is the State Ready? 02.22.2017 – The erosion of the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway, which triggered the evacuation of 188,000 people …Read More. |
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Dams Remain in Line For Bulk of Funding Over Cheaper Alternatives 02.21.2017 – Despite the spectacular near failure of Oroville Dam, a linchpin of California’s vast plumbing system, Congress …Read More. |
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Expect to See More Emergencies Like Oroville Dam in a Hotter World 02.20.2017 – Scientists predicted decades ago that climate change would add stress to water management systems like Oroville Dam …Read More. |
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2 Dams Illustrate Challenge of Maintaining Older Designs 02.19.2017 – Twelve years ago, widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast helped compel federal engineers 2,000 miles away in California …Read More. |
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Disturbing Deficiencies Seen in California’s Dam Safety Efforts 02.19.2017 – The dam burst on a warm afternoon, unleashing nearly 300 million gallons of muddy water on a Los Angeles …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: Oroville Dam Crisis Shows why we Can’t Take Water Infrastructure for Granted 02.16.2017 – During the 20th century, the United States pioneered and built water-treatment and delivery systems that provide nearly …Read More. |
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The Dam Truth: Climate Change Means More Lake Orovilles 02.16.2017 – Just two years ago, Lake Oroville was so dry that submerged archaeological artifacts were starting to resurface …Read More. |
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Op-Ed: To Avoid Catastrophe, Don’t Build More Dams 02.15.2017 – In the wake of the Oroville Dam near-catastrophe, many are asking our organization …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Laura Feinstein and Peter Gleick: Big-Picture Questions Raised by the Oroville Dam Emergency 02.15.2017 – Let’s not let a good crisis go to waste: Here are six important conversations that need to happen …Read More. |
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Oroville Is a Warning for California Dams, as Climate Change Adds Stress 02.14.2017 – The St. Francis Dam was a proud symbol of California’s engineering might and elaborate water system …Read More. |
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Oroville Dam: Crisis Highlights Need for Repairs to Anderson Dam, Other California Dams 02.13.2017 – One day after the deterioration of an Oroville Dam spillway forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people in …Read More. |
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Broken California Dam Is a Sign of Emergencies to Come 02.13.2017 – A deluge of repeated rainstorms set the stage for the near-disaster at the Oroville Dam in California, a crisis …Read More. |
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What is the Oroville Dam, and What will Happen if the Spillway Fails? 02.13.2017 – At least 188,000 people living downstream of California’s Oroville Dam were ordered to evacuate late …Read More. |
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Amid California Dam Evacuations, Big Risks and a Costly Infrastructure Failure 02.12.2017 – Massive flows of water damaged the emergency spillway of California’s Oroville Dam and prompted the sudden evacuations …Read More. |
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Despite Floods, California Extends Drought Regulations 02.09.2017 – The Water Resources Control Board has voted to extend existing conservation regulations, to the chagrin of many water agencies. The decision …Read More. |
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Why Is the Drought Not Over Yet? 02.07.2017 – Since December storms have been battering Los Angeles. In this first week of the city’s traditionally rainiest month, L.A. is more …Read More. |
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California Struggles with Groundwater Depletion Following End of Drought 02.06.2017 – Perhaps a bit of good news on the climate change front? Although does it come at a cost. Recent California …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Laura Feinstein: California Should Protect the Most Vulnerable People Affected by Drought 02.06.2017 – Do we ensure that, while nobody has all the water they want, everyone has enough clean, affordable water to drink …Read More. |
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Desalination of Aquifers Offers Drought-Weary California New Hope 02.06.2017 – California’s historic drought may be winding down. But water officials across the Golden State are increasingly exploring a hidden but …Read More. |
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Study Finds Two Groups Hardest Hit by California’s Drought 01.25.2017 – A new Pacific Institute study is the first statewide effort to explore the impact of the California drought on vulnerable communities …Read More. |
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Five Things to Know About California’s Drought After Big Storms 01.24.2017 – California has been hit with multiple large storms in the last month that have brought above-average snow and rainfall to most of the state …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: A Wet Year Wont Beat California’s Never-Ending Drought 01.22.2017 – Storm after storm has pummeled California over the past few weeks as a series of so-called atmospheric rivers has come ashore …Read More. |
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Focus: California Considers Ending Emergency Drought Rules 01.20.2017 – Defining drought in California can be a tricky business, especially when five years of severely dry conditions …Read More. |
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California Got Soaked—But Don’t Start Your Endless Showers Just Yet 01.15.2017 – It’s been pouring in rain-starved California for the past few weeks, so is the Golden State’s drought finally over …Read More. |
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Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: Is the Drought Over? Wrong Question! 01.13.2017 – Given the massive series of storms bringing rain and snow to California over the past month, people are asking …Read More. |
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Side Effect of California’s Drought: More Climate Pollution 01.03.2017 – Droughts are already getting longer and more severe because of human-caused climate change in the American Southwest and around …Read More. |