Brown Calls Californians Who Support Limited Immigration (and Favor Water Preservation) ‘Troglodytes’
I left California in 2008, bound for Pittsburgh, Pa. I’m regularly in touch with friends and family who have one thing on... Read More
World Water Day Promotes Conservation: Is Gov. Jerry Brown Listening?
On Sunday, World Water Day will be celebrated. The annual event is intended to help understand the vital role water plays in... Read More
California Faces More Drought
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, as Alexander Pope so famously said. And Americans in particular subscribe to this creed of... Read More
Drought-Tolerant Landscaping is Part of the Solution to California’s Water Woes, and so is Population Stabilization
Xeriscaping is landscaping with drought-tolerant, preferably native plants. In recent decades, its popularity has grown in the American Southwest as acute water... Read More
Southwestern States Guzzling Groundwater till it’s Gone
UC Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists have published a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that for... Read More
Fresh Water from the Sea?
Desalination Is No Panacea As California’s epic drought continues, many in the state are considering sea water desalination as a solution. The... Read More
Groundwater Pumping Increasing Seismic Activity
Is the combined weight of 38 million Californians actually deforming the Earth’s crust and increasing the number of earthquakes as well as... Read More
Blind Spot: Governor and L.A. Times Reporter See No Connection Between Water Crisis and Colossal California Population
We have yet more evidence that key California elites have a blind spot so huge that it obscures their view of 38... Read More
California Drought Signals Limits on Growth
California now faces what Gov. Jerry Brown describes as perhaps the state’s worst drought since record-keeping began a century ago. Water shortages... Read More
California’s Sinking San Joaquin Valley
I have written often about California’s worsening water resource problems. At the same time our population and water demands are growing, with... Read More