Survey Shows Little Media Connection Between Climate Change and Drought
Exloco / Carpe Diem March 2009 Media Survey shows a failure of mainstream media to connect prolonged drought in the West with climate change. Scientists, however, have made the leap. Here is the link to the JPL / Caltech researchers who first alerted Arizona, Nevada and Californian water agencies to a looming crisis on the Colorado river.…
Californians must find way to cut water use by 20%, says Riverside County Supervisor and former MWD Director
In a Desert Sun editorial, Marion Ashley gives this agenda for the Riverside County Water Symposium, May 28 at the Palm Springs Convention Center: Find “ways to meet the state’s goal of cutting water use by 20 percent, meeting the requirements of greenhouse gas bill AB32, unveiling a new landscape ordinance, funding much-needed water infrastructure and advocating for a solution to managing the Bay Area delta.”
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Los Angeles Water Use Restrictions To Start June 1, 2009
Sidewalk hose-downs, day-time watering, sprinkler run-off banned. The full ordinance.…
Final Snow Results 2009
APRIL 30, 2009. Sacramento- The California Department of Water Resources issued a snow survey for the rainy season of 2008-2009 indicating that “snowpack water content is 66 percent of normal for the date, statewide. Last year at this time snowpack was measured at 72 percent of normal, statewide.” For the announcement.
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