Water and Our Future — A Lot Less of It to Go Around, A Lot More Money to Have It at All; Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Depleted Water Reserves at Rate of 523M Gallons of Water per Day in 2008; Population Grows by 200,000 Per Year in Service Area (MercuryNews)
Feb.27, 2009 in
Drought, Water Crisis, Water Industry
(Feb. 26, 2009, The Mercury News)
In March, after a series of cold winter storms, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada was above normal. That seemed to be good news for California’s water supply, which relies heavily on Sierra Nevada snow.
But after a record heat wave in the early spring, it was as if the winter’s [...]
