By:Shivaji Deshmukh, General Manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Valerie Pryor, General Manager, Zone 7 Water Agency Assembly...
In an overt act of political meddling, Governor Newsom and his deputies are pressuring a judge to retract her evidence-based findings on the Sites Reservoir Project From the San Francisco Baykeeper and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance: The evidence shows the...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center The recently released “Water Renaissance” plan, a product of “conservation groups and tribes,” gets a very big idea right. There is no reason why California’s coastal...
When you’re in a hole, stop digging Commentary by Gary Wockner The chaos on the Colorado River has reached a fevered pitch. In a March 30, USA Today news story, the river’s most respected climate scientist, Brad Udall, described the extreme drought...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center Abundance, and its political twin, affordability, are now bipartisan mantras, but cannot be realized if the only permissible avenues are via urban infill, renewable energy, and...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center The Carlsbad desalination plant is reportedly operating at half-capacity, basically because it’s less expensive to import water from the Colorado River. That is likely to change,...
