The week that was, March 13-19, 2016
Weekly water news: the National Gallery fountain flows again; lead, arsenic & PFOS crises expand; maiden flight of the Waterbird on Windermere; Australian crackdown on foreign H2O prospectors; celebrity water wasters; Irvine Water District at odds with OC neighbors on proposed Huntington Beach de-sal plant and more.The week that was, March 6-12, 2016
Almonds in drought on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. Photo: Emily Green
“We’re not collecting any more money from the ratepayers. All we’re doing is, we’re taking money and saying we are reclassifying it from an account payable to income.” — Westlands Water District general manager Tom Birmingham to his board, California water district fined by SEC over “Enron” accounting, New York Times, 3/11/16
Westlands Water District is broker than it looks from the outside. Without “Enron accounting,” they can barely afford their debt service. — Instead of ‘Supermarket to the World,’ On the Public Record, 3/9/16
“There were six Goliaths in there and all I had was just a little pea stone.” — Nolen Scott Ely, Dimock, PA resident whose well was poisoned by fracking by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp, Jury awards families $4.24 million in contaminated water case, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/11/2016
Dimock, which …
The week that was, February 28-March 5, 2016
River martyr in Honduras, girls dream of clean water superheroes in Michigan, half the world for wildlife, pollution as art in Hawaii: the week's water news.The week that was, 1/24-30/2016
Eclectic international round-up of the week's stories on water and climate compiled by environment writer Emily Green.Avoiding pollution, drought’s evil twin
Drought has rewritten accepted orthodoxy about yard care. Among the things to do: water less often, more deeply. Rake. Compost. Squarely on the list of things not to do: fertilize, apply pesticides or use leaf blowers. Advice from a veteran garden writer about dry season good practice. « go back — keep looking »North American Native Plant Societies
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