(May 12, 2009, Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee)
As another summer of drought approaches, hundreds of thousands of acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland are expected to be fallowed, and much of urban California faces 20 percent water cutbacks.
But in the Sacramento Valley, rice farmers have been busy for weeks spreading water 6 inches deep over [...]
(April 15, 2009, Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed)
Major water price increases and supply cuts are underway in southern California, both of which are long overdue. This part of the state is a desert, and yet too many people live there, and too many of them live their water consumption lives like they are somewhere with higher [...]
(March 19, 2009, The Los Angeles Times)
State officials announced Wednesday they will deliver more water to Southern California this year than previously predicted but cautioned that shipments will remain well below normal.
State water resources director Lester Snow said “a series of very beneficial storms in February and early March” prompted his department to increase allocations [...]
You Can Bank on Water Rationing in SoCal by July 1, 2009 (LeakBird)After reading today’s article in the San Diego Tribune in which the Metropolitan Water District has its drinking straws in its final water reserves and options, I’m convinced that water rationing will not be averted in Southern California (or perhaps all of California for that matter). In other words, we can bank on water rationing, [...]
(Feb. 11, 2009, Aguanomics)
On Monday, I visited DXV Water Technologies, a start-up with a new technology for desalination.
I met with Michael Motherway (president), Curt Roth (VP engineering), and Diem Vuong (inventor), and we discussed their technology, markets and other issues of supply and demand. Here’s one write up [PDF].
I HIGHLY recommend that you listen to [...]
(Jan. 13, 2009, San Gabriel Tribune)
There is a 50 percent chance Southern California’s main water agency could ration water deliveries by spring, according to a report released Tuesday.
Previously, the agency said there was a 33 percent chance of rationing.
“We would basically be … capping water supplies to our local agencies,” said Bob Muir, a [...]
(Jan. 11, 2009, The Mercury News)
To understand how California reached its current water crisis, one could look for an analogy in the financial meltdown.
In both cases, credit or water once flowed easily: Four of the five years of highest water deliveries from the Delta’s two massive pumping plants were 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
In both [...]
(Oct. 22, 2008, The Los Angeles Times)
Reported from The Imperial Valley — On a rocky patch of desert, federal and state officials Tuesday began construction on a $172.2-million reservoir that will store water from the Colorado River that otherwise would be “lost” to Mexico.
The reservoir will mean more water for coastal Southern California, southern Nevada [...]
