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(May 1, 2009, ClimateWatch, NPR)
NPR’s Morning Edition launched an “occasional series” on California’s water woes this morning. Veteran correspondent John McChesney begins with the impact on agriculture in the Central Valley’s Westlands Water District, the nation’s “biggest irrigated region.”
KQED’s Central Valley Bureau Chief and Climate Watch contributor Sasha Khokha will have three stories in the [...]

(Feb. 6, 2009, Aguanomics)
This 26 minute PBS video is excellent for its overview of California water issues. They interview farmers in the Central Valley (”protect our way of life”), enviros (”we can’t keep taking water from nature”) and have a good overview of the technology (water recycling, reverse osmosis, etc.) What do they forget to [...]

(Jan. 12, 2009, KQED’s Climate Watch)
California’s Dept. of Water Resources has issued a new gameplan for managing the state’s precarious water supply. DWR calls its draft California Water Plan “a new chapter in the way California must manage her water resources,” warning that “the system has lost its reslience.”
The agency appears to fully recognize the [...]