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	Oil and Agriculture Don’t Mix ¹²^{.10.15– California is well known as an agricultural powerhouse. The state produces about half of the fresh fruits, vegetables, and nuts eaten by American… Read more.}
	Dry Springs and Dead Orchards: Barren Fields in Morocco Reveal Risks of Severe Depletion in North Africa ^{12.10.15- Sebt El Guerdane, Morocco – On a plot of farmland where goats wander among the weeds, a two-story house made of stone and concrete looks out over… Read more.}
	California in Overdraft: Dry Wells and Sinking Ground as State Struggles with Groundwater Crisis ^12.10.15-^{Two decades ago, the rolling hills of Paso Robles were mostly covered with golden grass and oak trees. Now the hills and valleys are blanketed…}^{Read more.}
	At Salton Sea, Political Pressure Finally Spurs Progress ^12.6.15^{– After decades of false starts and warnings of disaster, hope is on the horizon at the Salton Sea.No, there’s still no plan to return California’s largest lake to its former… Read more.}
	Is the Syrian Conflict Linked to Climate Change ¹^1.23.15-^{Could terrorism and conflict be directly linked to climate change? “Absolutely,” says Britain’s Prince Charles in an interview with Sky News that aired on… Read more.}
	California Must Capture Water, Not Waste It Op-Ed by Peter Gleick ^{11.17.15– We don’t know for sure whether the El Niño we face this winter will be a drought buster or a bust. But we had better prepare for a lot of rain and the potential… Read more.}
	Toxic Dust From a Dying California Lake ^{11.9.15 –} ^{On October 28, the smog-control agency for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, issued an odor advisory… Read more.}
	It’s Great That Americans Are Using Less Water Than Ever—Unless You’re a Water Utility ^{10.30.15- It’s not many industries that encourage customers to buy less of the product they’re selling. But that’s the conundrum water utilities have found… Read more.}
	Environmental Outlook: Lessons From Israel’s Search For Water ^{10.7.15– California is in its fourth year of record-breaking drought. Yet, the Golden State is far from alone in its water woes. Forty of 50 U.S. states will face shortages…Read more.}
	Salton Sea Faces Catastrophic Future, Toxic Dust Storms, Officials Say ^10.1.15-^Co^{mmunity activists, politicians and water officials from the Imperial and Coachella valleys went to the state water board in Sacramento six months ago… Read more.}
	California Agriculture Weathers Drought — at a Cost ^{9.30.15- Three brown, withered lawns surround David Behar’s home in Marin County, north of San Francisco in California. Behar, who directs the climate… Read more.}
	How Lifestyle Choices Cause You to Use More Water ^{9.22.15- Californians have cut our home water use by about 30 percent this summer. That’s a serious effort that is paying off, but most of us probably don’t realize… Read more.}
	Less Water Might be Plenty for California, Experts Say, and Conservation is Only the Start ^9.6.15-^{Across California this summer, residents have been racking up water conservation numbers that defy expectations — a 27% reduction in June, followed by 31.3% in July… Read more.}
	New Hope for the Salton Sea ^9.3.15- ^{The Salton Sea, a vast saltwater lake in remote southeastern California providing crucial habitat for birds and wildlife, is quickly approaching a tipping… Read more.}
	How The U.S. Helped Iran Manage Its Water Crisis ^8.11.15-^{There’s plenty of blustery rhetoric surrounding the Iran nuclear deal. Hardliners in Iran think they’ve comprised too much, and some in the U.S. don’t think… Read more.}
	Flow of Cheap Hydroelectricity Slows in Parched West ^8.2.15- ^{As rivers and reservoirs shrink across the parched West, cheap sources of water-generated electricity are starting to dry up… Read more.}
	On Four Continents, Historic Droughts Wreak Havoc^{7.27.15– California’s historic drought appears to be matched by severe dry spells on three other continents. Brazil, North Korea and South Africa are bearing the brunt of much lower-than-average precipitation… Read more.}
	MGM Resorts Tells Drought Panel It’s Saved 2 Billion Gallons^{7.17.15– Sin City may look like a lush water-waster as the state endures its fourth year of a severe drought, but casino-resorts say their fountains and greenery are well-crafted illusions… Read more.}
	How more lawn restrictions could remake the California landscape ^7.15.15-^{First it was existing lawns, with Gov. Jerry Brown leading the way in urging Californians to rip out swaths of green to save vast amounts of water… Read more.}
	The madness of drinking bottled water shipped halfway round the world^{7.9.15– Globally, we now drink as much packaged water as we do milk. At 30 litres per person per year, bottled water is the second most popular liquid refreshment … Read more.}
	Today’s Water Laws Encourage Waste. Can Big Data Help Shape Better Ones?^{6.25.15– Water Talk is a series of conversations about how we’re “Killing the Colorado,” a multi-part investigation from ProPublica and Matter that tells the truth behind the water crisis in the West…. Read more.}
	The Numbers Behind Agricultural Water Use^{6.21.15– Perhaps you’ve noticed—and questioned—recent reports about California’s drought and the surprisingly large quantities of water required to produce foods grown there… Read more.}
	California Cuts Farmers’ Share of Scant Water^{6.12.15– Farmers with rights to California water dating back more than a century will face sharp cutbacks, the first reduction in their water use since 1977… Read more.}
	Your Contribution to the Drought ^{5.21.15– California farmers produce more than a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. To do that, they use nearly 80 percent… Read more.}
	Drought Cuts Power Production of California Dams ⁵^.16.15-^{Shasta Dam, looming more than 600 feet tall and gatekeeper of the largest man-made lake in California, was designed to perform two crucial… Read more.}
	Soapbox: Don’t let special interests dictate state water policy ^{4.30.15– California’s water system is in a very delicate place – a transition from 19th and 20th century policies and institutions to a system that must work for a 21st century… Read more.}
	$8bn Habitat Conservation Plan Scrapped as California Prioritises Agribusiness ^{4.29.15– For the past eight years, California politicians, utility}^{companies, farmers and environmentalists have been arguing over the Bay Delta Conservation Plan… Read more.}
	The Dying Sea ^4.27.15-^{There is a place in the California desert where a pipe pokes out from a berm made of broken concrete and delivers freshwater to a dying sea. I stood there… Read more.}
	Peter H. Gleick: Ditch the Water-Wasting Lawns ^{4.17.15- It is time to redefine what we think of as a beautiful landscape and get rid of ornamental lawns in the arid western United States. The idea that… Read more.}
	Taking the Hydro Out of hydropower ⁴^{.18.15- California is facing its worst drought in a thousand years, according the state’s energy commission. The Snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas… Read more.}
	California Drought: Why Mandatory Cuts Didn’t Hit Farms ^4.8.15-^{As Californians prepare for unprecedented mandatory water reductions of 25 percent beginning next month, state officials find themselves defending… Read more.}
	California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth ^4.4.15-^{For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland… Read more.}
	As West Struggles with Drought, Complicated Water Politics Loom ^4.3.15- ^{Throughout the 19th century, Americans flooded to the western United States in search of resources: gold, timber, coal, oil. But the explosive growth of Western… Read more.}
	Gov. Brown’s drought plan goes easy on agriculture ⁴^.3.15-^Go^{v. Jerry Brown’s historic order to curb California’s water use largely bypasses agriculture, the state’s biggest water user, setting off debate about whether growers… Read more.}
	The End of the Lawn ^4.2.15-^{When the news popped up on Carmen Uribe’s smartphone on Wednesday, she went into a near-panic: California, for the first time, would…}^{Read more.}
	California Accepts a Drought-Filled Future ^{4.2.15– Phillips Station sits about sixty-eight hundred feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, not far from the ski resorts near the southern shore of Lake… Read more.}
	California’s drought is not getting better but experts look to startups for ideas ^{3.22.15- The last five years of Nasa data shows the California Central Valley has had drier than average conditions. Although the data hasn’t yet been completely processed for 2014, it is largely understood that this dry trend… Read more.}
	California First to Feel Hydro-Power Crunch of Drought ^{3.21.15– Flying over the Sierra Nevada as California entered its fourth year of drought, the state’s energy chief looked down and saw stark bare granite cloaked in dirty… Read more.}
	Intensifying Calif. drought sets off alarms ^3.18.15-^{As California’s epic drought continues with no end in sight, it is setting off new alarms about unprecedented water shortages, increased wildfire threats… Read more.}
	California’s Cleaner Fuel Comes at Cost to Water: Report ^{3.17.15-The water it takes to supply energy to California, the biggest U.S. fuel market, has risen almost four-fold over two decades. And the culprit isn’t oil… Read more.}
	Water Wasters Elude Fines ^3.15.15-^{California water regulators, alarmed by slack conservation three years into a crippling drought, took the unprecedented step last summer… Read more.}
	Lack of Snow Leaves California’s ‘Water Tower’ Running Low ^3.4.15-^{Snowpack—which essentially serves as a water tower for the western United States—produces vital meltwater that flows off the… Read more.}
	California water conservation weakening as drought worsens. Tougher rules on the way?^{3.4.15- California is heading into the fourth summer of a historic drought, but when it comes to conserving water, its urban residents are going… Read more.}
	The drought forecast calls for pain ²^.27.15-^{For the fourth year in a row, California is in severe drought. Water allocations from the state and federal water projects will be far short of what farmers… Read more.}
	Changing the Way We Think About Water: Q&A with Peter Gleick ^{2.24.15- Peter Gleick knows water. An environmental scientist and communicator and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, the MacArthur “genius” fellow and member… Read more.}
	The United States of Megadrought ^{2.12.15- When it comes to drought in the West, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. That’s the conclusion from a new study that links an increasing risk of decades-long drought… Read more.}
	How to do business in a world running out of water ²^.5.15^{– If there’s any doubt that water crises loom over the globe, consider these news headlines from a mere 10 days in January: from Brazil, “Sao Paulo… Read more.}
	After 12 years, legal dispute over water transfer ends ^2.4.15-^{Imperial County and the Imperial Irrigation District announced a settlement in a long-running legal battle Tuesday, ending 12 years of litigation over a… Read more.}
	Can Sun and Wind Make More Salt Water Drinkable? ^{2.2.15– The oceans have long taunted those who thirst. Records dating to A.D. 200 show that sailors boiled seawater and used sponges to absorb fresh water… Read more.}
	Congressman seek Salton Sea funding ^1.16.15-^{Two California congressmen are urging President Barack Obama to support more funding for federal projects to remedy the complex problems of the Salton… Read more.}
	13 Weird Moments In The History Of Water Fountains ¹^.14.15-^{When was the last time you gave serious thought to a drinking fountain? Maybe it was in elementary school, when they were the only way to… Read more.}
	California residents increase water conservation but fall short of state’s goal ^{1.6.15– After two months in a row of declining conservation, Californians are doing better at saving water, but they remain far short of a goal set by Gov. Jerry… Read more.}
	On top of drought, 2014 marked by extraordinary heat ^{1.2.15-Despite the blast of winter weather that swept across California at the end of 2014, much of the year stood out for extraordinary heat…Read more.}
	California’s water deficit: 11 trillion gallons ¹^2.16.14-^{NASA satellites that have been tracking California’s troubled water supplies from space generated a first-ever estimate of how much water…Read more.}
	What to do when climate change poses a risk to your water supply ¹^2.10.14-^{As evidence of climate change mounts, businesses across all sectors of the economy are developing strategies for identifying and avoiding the risks… Read more.}
	Los Angeles, City of Water ^12.6.14-^{LOS ANGELES is the nation’s water archvillain, according to public perception, notorious for its usurpation of water hundreds of miles away… Read more.}
	Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles ¹^1.24.14-^{Brazil’s Jaguari reservoir has fallen to its lowest level ever, laying bare measurement posts that jut from exposed earth like a line of dominoes. The nation’s… Read more.}
	‘Looming environmental crisis’ at Salton Sea prompts plea for help ^11.21.14-^{The Imperial Irrigation District has sent a plea to a state water board to help avert a “looming environmental and public health crisis” at the Salton Sea… Read more.}
	Preserving a Mistake Made by Our Meddling With Nature ^{11.10.14– The area around this town of date palms attracts two kinds of migrants – hundreds of humans who work the land, and millions of birds who stop to rest… Read more.}
	A Water Project Cleans Up Nairobi’s Slum ¹^{1.9.14– At 8 a.m., Patrick Mwangi meets me for breakfast at the Serena Hotel in downtown Nairobi. We are in the hotel’s restaurant, seated at a table covered…Read more.}

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