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Drinking Toilet Water: Future of Drought-Stricken California?
December 21st, 2023
Courtesy of the Washington Post, a look at how drinking toilet water may be the future of drought-stricken California: As climate change and water scarcity become increasingly urgent issues around the world, governments are turning to new options to ensure adequate water supplies — including turning sewage waste into drinking water. And if you’re in California, this may […]
Read more »Colorado River Stakeholders Say There’s No One Solution To The Water Crisis
December 21st, 2023
Via Utah Public Radio, a report on the Colorado River: The future of the Colorado River is being hashed out behind closed doors, and negotiators appear far from a long-term solution to the wide gap between water supply and water demand. At the Colorado River Water Users Association annual meeting in Las Vegas, representatives from […]
Read more »California’s Water Wars See Some Breakthroughs But More Clashes Loom
December 21st, 2023
Via VC Star, commentary on California’s water future: The politics of water in California could be likened to the constant grinding of tectonic plates 10 miles or more beneath its surface. The Pacific Plate battles with the North American Plate for dominance along the 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault tracing California’s coast. When one gives way, the state […]
Read more »The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water
December 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on BlueTriton Brands – a private equity firm that owns Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other bottled water brands. As it tries to grow, experts worry sensitive springs, creeks and groundwater supplies from Florida to California are paying the price: Ginnie Springs is a true Florida oasis. Ringed by towering cypress trees, […]
Read more »Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.
December 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on California which – as the world warms – is re-examining claims to its water that have gone unchallenged for generations: The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The prospectors who raced westward after 1848 scoured […]
Read more »Addressing Groundwater Overdraft in the Sacramento Valley
December 15th, 2023
Via the Public Policy Institute of California, a report on ways to address groundwater overdraft in the Sacramento Valley: Although the Sacramento Valley has relatively abundant surface water supplies, groundwater is also an important resource for many of its communities and farms. In fact, one-third of the valley’s farmland depends entirely on groundwater, and more than half (60%) […]
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