"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
What’s that, you say, Sacramento CA has rice fields? Yes, and quite a lot of them too. In fact, the area produces much of the country’s rice. Researchers have found if they flood the fields in just the right way,…
A California Central Valley farmer explains how their strictly apportioned water supply is so meager and unreliable that it makes farming almost impossible. Costs for water supplied by the Bureau of Reclamation to irrigate orchards on my farm near Firebaugh…
Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, marking their second collaboration after Manufactured Landscapes in 2006. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about…
More than half of the rain in Los Angeles ends up in the ocean. With planning and thought, that water could be put to good use by recharging aquifers. This entails studying where the rain falls, permeability of the soil,…
This is welcome news. The Salton Sea in California, a huge, dying, saline lake, will get desperately needed funding from geothermal development to help in its restoration. Imperial County and the Imperial Irrigation District signed the deal, ending ten years…