DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: How does changing climate bring more extreme events?
; Flood insurance rates could rise for hundreds of thousands of homeowners under proposal; Siskiyou County Supervisors wary of effort to model Shasta River hydrology; and m. In California water news this weekend, How does changing climate bring more extreme events?
; Flood insurance rates could rise for hundreds of thousands of homeowners under proposal; Drone video shows progress on spillway repair; Siskiyou County Supervisors wary of effort to model Shasta River hydrology; Toxic algae spurs no-swim warning in East Bay community; Pajaro Valley water kicks off next phase of basin plan; Three years after receiving new well, Tulare County still suffering from water shortage; Inyo County in process of ‘condemning’ landfill sites, reclaiming land from DWP; Diamond Valley back to being a jewel of a lake; and more … In the news this weekend … How does changing climate bring more extreme events?
The clips also highlight demolition and rock cleaning on the emergency spillway.
… ” Read more from the San Jose Mercury Record here: Drone video shows progress on spillway repair In commentary this weekend … Stop the legislative games with Cadiz water project, says John Hakel: He writes, “Over the Independence Day holiday, a member of the California Legislature, using the universally reviled “gut and amend” process, introduced Assembly Bill 1000, a bill with a malicious, single purpose: derail the construction of the Cadiz Water Project, a project fully certified under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that will add a new, sustainable water supply to Southern California.
… ” Read more from the Siskiyou Daily News here: Siskiyou County Supervisors wary of effort to model Shasta River hydrology Toxic algae spurs no-swim warning in East Bay community: “Toxic blue-green algae is back this year, triggering a no-swim warning on some waterways in the southern part of this water-oriented community.
We have elderly, disabled, fieldworker’s, who are out there 12 hours a day, come home, and they can’t shower.” … ” Read more from ABC 30 here: Three years after receiving new well, Tulare County still suffering from water shortage Inyo County in process of ‘condemning’ landfill sites, reclaiming land from DWP: “In what could be described as one of the gutsiest local moves, at least in the past couple of years, Inyo County is in the process of claiming eminent domain on 267.89 acres of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power land in Bishop, Lone Pine and Independence.
… ” Read more from the Riverside Press-Enterprise here: Diamond Valley back to being a jewel of a lake Along the Colorado River … Stabilizing Lake Mead levels a priority amongst stakeholders: “The five participants in a historic effort to help stabilize Lake Mead water levels made their agreement formal at a signing ceremony hosted by the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
… ” Read more from the San Jose Mercury News here: Overturned truck of ‘slime eels’ transforms Oregon road into highway of nightmares Click here to read more editions of the Daily Digest.
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