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California Will Have Less Water In The Future, and What It May Mean
October 5th, 2023
Via The Sacramento Bee, commentary on California’s water future: The Newsom administration is taking steps to lower your water use in the coming years, and for some communities — by a lot. In the Sacramento County city of Folsom for example, residents are tentatively projected to face water cutbacks of 15% for homes and outdoor […]
Read more »San Diego Gears Up to Deal Water Across the West
October 3rd, 2023
Via the Voice of San Diego, a look at the fact that it has been twenty years since San Diego bought Colorado River water from its farming neighbors, and it now seeks to attract investors in its other water assets: This October marks 20 years since San Diego cut a famous deal that protected it […]
Read more »Thousands of California Wells At Risk of Drying Up Despite Landmark Water Law
October 2nd, 2023
Via Phys.org, a report on how – even though California enacted sweeping legislation nearly a decade ago to curb excessive agricultural pumping of groundwater – new research predicts that thousands of drinking water wells could run dry in the Central Valley by the time the law’s restrictions take full effect in 2040; Even though California […]
Read more »The U.S. Needs Minerals for Green Tech: Will Western Mines have Enough Water?
September 29th, 2023
Via NPR’s OPB, a look at whether the U.S. has enough water for planned green tech mineral mines in the West: On a 107 degree morning in the mountains east of Phoenix, a miner in a hard hat plunges down the nearly 7,000-foot shaft of what may soon be the biggest underground copper mine in […]
Read more »Is Groundwater Trading The Future of California Water?
September 29th, 2023
Courtesy of Fresnoland, an article looking at how – with risks to small farmers – new groundwater markets could make almond, pistachios investments more secure through drought. What’s at stake: At a summit in Fresno, state water policy leaders imagined new ways to monetize water and the San Joaquin Valley’s climate transition. Farming groundwater credits […]
Read more »Colorado River Growers Say They’re Ready To Save Water
September 29th, 2023
Via NPR’s KUNC, a report that Colorado River growers say they’re ready to save water, but need to build trust with states and feds: The Colorado River is in trouble, and farmers and ranchers are on the front lines of the crisis. A new report surveyed more than 1,020 irrigators across six of the seven states that […]
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