"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
If the California drought was due to climate change, there would not have been previous droughts when few people lived there. The link between the current drought and climate change is tenuous (as the NY Times says.) That didn’t stop…
California and the Southwest have a long history of drought. Some Southwest droughts lasted 100 years. Worse, the 20th Century may have been unusually wet. Yet water infrastructures were built and planning was done assuming droughts, if any, would be…
The plight of Central Valley farmers fallowing land and frantically pumping water from wells not knowing when they will go dry is their own damn, greedy fault, says a California water blogger. I have absolutely no sympathy for this predicament.…
Friant Dam near Fresno CA provides water to 15,000 San Joaquin Valley farmers. It can’t store enough, especially during times of drought. Enter plans to build a much bigger dam, Temperance Flat, at the back of the lake. It would…
The Metropolitan Water District in southern California has planned for years for droughts and has the only full reservoirs in the state, Castaic and Pyramid. They did this by raising water rates and deliberately buying surplus water. Lots of water…