Lake Mead hovered at around 1,122.39 feet, or roughly 53% full at the close of January, 2013, more than 55 feet lower than the comparable January closing in 2002, the year when it was finally recognized that a long term dry spell was about to grip the Colorado River system.
California gardens contain many of the Mediterranean natives that most Americans only see in war footage and read about in cookbooks or the Bible or Quaran. A Timber Press book gives us the biblical and Quran references for figs, dates, laurel, myrrh and more.
Founding editor Chris Austin has stepped aside as compiler of the California water news feed "Aquafornia."
2012 marked the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States
A new Colorado River study highlights the need for conservation while Interior has just rubber-stamped a massive groundwater exploitation project in rural Nevada and similar projects are planned across the dry West.
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