SB 1157 – California Globe

Ringside: Quantifying the Upside of More Lawns

January 22, 2025 2:47 pmJanuary 22, 2025 2:47 pm

A respected advocate for farming interests in California once explained to me that every acre of lawn requires 5 acre feet of water per year. The unsubtle implication was that the more lawn we kill, the less water we waste....

Ringside: The Abundance Mindset

May 30, 2024 2:45 amMay 30, 2024 2:46 am

If energy powers modern civilization, then water gives it life. And in California, for at least the last 20 years, with escalating severity, life has been tough. There isn’t enough water to go around. Water scarcity is not being forced...

Ringside: Water Rationing is the Worst Way to Build Resiliency

January 11, 2024 2:45 amJanuary 11, 2024 2:46 am

When a public policy decision is flawed, and the reasons it is flawed are simple and obvious, and the consequences are huge and costly, the appropriate response for a concerned observer is to call attention to the looming debacle. Not...

Ringside View: California Legislature Destroys Incentive to Achieve Water Resiliency

November 22, 2023 2:55 amNovember 23, 2023 1:13 pm

The California State Water Board is currently drafting the regulations needed to implement Senate Bill 1157, which is possibly the most misguided, unnecessary, intrusive, expensive disaster of a law ever passed by the state legislature. Passed and signed by Governor...