Category Water

From the Department of Unexpected Results: Contrary to the cherished assumption that real-time water metering  will help people use less water, Aurora CO discovered the exact opposite happened. Residents with shiny new smart water meters used more water not less.…

Along with the fast-developing, powerful El Nino, several persistent warm water blobs (and their little buddy The Ridge) have appeared in the Pacific. No one really know if they will work together to produce even more rain, cancel each other…

When the rains return to California and the Southwest, and they will, a promising way to recharge aquifers is by deliberately flooding alfalfa fields, as well as fallow fields. Deliberately recharging groundwater allows aquifers to be managed more like surface…

We lived in southern California during the last two big El Niños and they are indeed doozies. Torrential storms slam into the state one after another. Roads flood. Houses slide down hills. And reservoirs fill up. The crucial question is,…

As if California didn’t already have enough water worries. Water flows down from the Sierras to the Sacramento Delta, and then much of it goes to southern California. The delta is the most crucial water supply in California. Delta islands…