EBMUD declared a Stage 4 critical drought and set a community-wide goal to reduce water use 20% compared to 2013. To achieve these savings, EBMUD adopted new water use rules that affect everyone in the East Bay. Click here to view a June 2015 EBMUD Informational Brochure on the Water Use Restrictions in Effect due […]
Continue ReadingSan Jose Mercury News: California drought: El Niño continues to build, bringing increased chances of a wet winter San Jose Mercury News: Ocean investigators set their sights on Pacific Ocean ‘blob’ KQED: Rain in June? No Drought-Buster, But We’ll Take It The Daily Caller: Calif. Drought Results In Rotating Blame Game Los Angeles Times: Gov. Brown says ‘spaceship Earth’ […]
Continue ReadingThe State Water Resources Control Board will consider a proposed Resolution to adopt a drought-related emergency regulation requiring enhanced water conservation and additional water user information for the protection of specific fisheries in four tributaries to the Russian River (Dutch Bill Creek, Green Valley Creek, Mark West Creek and Mill Creek) on June 17 at its June 16-17 […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: Watch: Gov. Brown discusses drought with Times publisher Austin Beutner Los Angeles Times: Welcome to Water and Power Associated Press: California lawmaker proposes steep tax for water guzzlers Associated Press: $340 million in California drought-relief money left unspent Los Angeles Times: Gov. Jerry Brown sees California getting through drought Los Angeles Times: Drought and record-breaking heat are bad […]
Continue ReadingSacramento Bee: Three Sacramento water agencies get breather on drought cutbacks Fresno Bee: Fresno water use plummets 24.8% in May over last year CBS San Francisco: East Bay Residents Appalled By Water Park Construction In Drought Stricken California Dublin Breitbart News: LA Times: Drought ‘Serious, But Hardly a Disaster’ Orange County Register: Sacrifice the bullet train to the water gods […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: California water losses ‘huge,’ new thinking required on drought, panel says Associated Press: Californians discover that gray water is the new gold Los Angeles TImes: California’s congressional delegation can’t agree on response to drought Sacramento Bee: Imperiled fish add to California’s drought stress Bloomberg: California Governor Jerry Brown cuts back on showers as drought worsens Daily Democrat: California […]
Continue ReadingCommissioner’s Office Washington, DC For Immediate Release: June 4, 2015 Bureau of Reclamation Hosts Webinar for Drought Response Program Funding Opportunities Please join the Bureau of Reclamation for a webinar discussing the application process for funding opportunities with the new Drought Response Program. The two available funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) will help water users […]
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: California’s Drought Spurring Water Recycling at Home Associated Press: Assembly passes $10 million low-interest water loan program NPR: California’s War Over Water Has Farmer Fighting Farmer New York Times: Water Pricing in Two Thirsty Cities: In One, Guzzlers Pay More, and Use Less Capital Public Radio: ‘Extreme’ Drought Expands In California Sacramento Bee: Environmentalists sue over California drought management […]
Continue ReadingDROUGHT: Interior interested in new congressional authority for water projects — deputy Debra Kahn and Annie Snider, E&E reporters, E&E Daily: Thursday, June 4, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO — With the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee kicking off work on West-wide drought legislation, the Interior Department is eyeing new authorities it could win through the process, […]
Continue ReadingWall Street Journal: In California, the Grass is Always Greener on the Painted Side Los Angeles Times: Backers of desalination hope Carlsbad plant will disarm critics NPR: Drought May Cost California’s Farmers Almost $3 Billion In 2015 Capital Public Radio News: New Growing Technique Relieves Drought Stricken Avocado Farmers Los Angeles Times: Brown’s water quest taps forebears’ inspiration, if not […]
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