Tag: water
Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board is Draining California’s Folsom Lake Reservoir
Following the Globe article Friday about the state draining reservoirs even with the dry year California is facing, we noted that California’s largest reservoirs less than two years ago were absolutely teeming with water from 107% to 145% of average....
Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board is Draining California Reservoirs
“In the last 14 days, 90% of Delta inflow went to sea. It’s equal to a year’s supply of water for 1 million people. #ManMadeDrought,” Central Valley farmer Kristi Diener said. Diener, a California water expert and farmer, has been...
Why Do Californians Have to Choose Between Food, Agriculture, and Fish?
The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and federal water regulators predates the latest drought and will continue long after, unless some political honesty takes place. Most of the media and public officials paint California farmers and...
California House Republicans Urge Natural Resources Committee Action on California Drought
Last week, while standing in a dried out bed on Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency… but not for the entire state of California as expected. Newsom only declared a drought emergency for two Northern California counties...
Water and Drought Deceit: More Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate
Food or Fish, Liberty or Oppression, Victim or Fighter? We Californians have many decisions to make about our future. In Climate Deceit and Dubious Policies California Lawmakers Continue to Perpetrate, we addressed unreliable solar and wind power, and China’s influence...
If California is Facing a Rare Mega-Drought, Why is the State Releasing Water from Reservoirs
Last week, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in Oroville, with a 60% empty Oroville Dam Reservoir as his backdrop, he said he is not ready to declare an official drought emergency. “Instead, he promised he can manage the situation...