"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
jfleck brings baleful news about water levels in two crucial lakes, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, that feed into the Colorado. Ever the journalist in search of gloomy extremes, I just noticed that total storage in Lake Mead and Lake…
Sierra snowpack measurements are a crucial determinant of how much water California will have. This year the snowpack is a dismal 17% of normal. Among other things, this means Central Valley farmers will get even less water, perhaps as little…
New Mexico ranchers and farmers are selling cattle, deciding which crops to let die, and praying the drought ends soon. Their big crops are chiles and pecans. Farming relies on water from aquifers replenished by the Rio Grande. But the…
Energy is the biggest cost for desalination plants, sometimes 50%, more than with importing water from elsewhere and much more than wastewater recycling. California has seventeen proposed desalination plants. San Diego has started construction of the biggest desal plant in…
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan ostensibly aims to preserve the Sacramento Delta while funneling most of the water away from it via two huge tunnels for use by Central Valley agriculture and Los Angeles. Calif. Governor Jerry Brown strongly supports…