In California water news this weekend, Bernhardt suggests Westlands for major contract; Westlands steps back from Shasta expansion. Environmentalists still worry; How to start adapting to California’s “precipitation whiplash”; California’s working landscape generates $333 billion in sales, 1.5 million jobs; Warming climate, population sprawl threaten California’s future with more destructive wildfires; Dust kicked up from the West’s drying lakes is a looming health hazard; Federal oil lease auctions may soon resume after BLM finds minimal fracking risks in California; Huge … Continue reading DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Bernhardt suggests Westlands for major contract; Westlands steps back from Shasta expansion. Environmentalists still worry; How to start adapting to CA’s “precipitation whiplash”; Dust kicked up from the West’s drying lakes a looming health hazard; and more …