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by | Jun 2, 2023

We haven’t heard much lately from climate changists about the megadrought — trumpeted as the worst drought in the last 1,200 years — that has been afflicting the West for the past two decades and imperiling the day-to-day existence of…

by | Jan 11, 2023

It’s Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. It’s been raining like mad insanity for about a week now and this follows several weeks of occasional rain. It was predicted for years that we in Sunny Cal were in for a Thousand Year…

by | Sep 7, 2022

The water level in Lake Mead is reaching record lows and the popular narrative maintains that drought brought on by human-caused climate change is to blame. But the government’s own data from the Bureau of Reclamation shows this is not…

by | May 17, 2022

Water worries have shaken the Valley of the Sun. Every day seems to bring new tremors of “end is near” fear to its 1.8 million inhabitants. The most recent temblor has to do with Superstition Vistas, a planned mini-city on…

by | Apr 27, 2022

Sacramento California state officials might have noticed that we’re enduring yet another historic drought — one so intense that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the nation’s largest water supplier, has this week announced mandatory conservation measures that not…

by | Jun 17, 2021

Sacramento During a recent interview, a journalist asked me what states should do now that a particularly intense drought has taken hold of the West. It was a perfectly fair question, but it points to one of my pet peeves…

by | Apr 15, 2021

Sacramento Four years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of California’s historically severe drought by lifting various emergency restrictions. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” the governor intoned. “Conservation must remain…

by | Dec 24, 2020

Sacramento California’s historically severe drought, which ended in March 2019, had dominated Capitol discussions during its eight-year run, yet had not led to any dramatic changes in the way the state manages its water resources. This seems hard to fathom, given…

by | Apr 27, 2017

During the 20th century, the world saw the greatest population boom in human history. The annual growth rate of the world’s population stands at 1.6 percent and the world population is expected to grow from 8 billion to 10 billion…

by | Feb 21, 2017

Oroville dam and its out-of-control spillway dramatize California’s sudden water turnaround this winter. The rains continue, and about 7 inches are predicted this week in the Sacramento Valley. The six-year drought is over. “At least for now,” say Californians. Like…

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