Drought

The Bureau of Reclamation and the Placerville -area El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) recently announced they have entered into a Warren Act contract for 17,000 acre-feet per year of EID’s Project 184 supplies/Water Rights Permit 21112 from Folsom Reservoir. The contract is the result of EID’s 25-year effort to secure …

After two days of intense effort by more than 1,300 firefighting personnel the Blue Cut Fire remains at just four percent containment. The fire is a testament to the four-plus year drought complicated, in the San Bernardino County deserts and mountains, by extreme heat, low humidity and winds topping out …

For residents of tiny Paskenta, population 112 — located 130 miles north of Sacramento — you would never know that Northern California had a near-average rainfall in the past 12 months. For the third year in a row Paskenta is facing a unique drought.  And though their situation is the …

Water industry leaders gathered at Friday’s 10th Annual San Bernardino County (SBC) Water Conference acknowledged that when they convened their first county-wide water conference in 2007 they could not have begun to image the changes in the industry in the ensuing ten years. SBC Supervisor and Chairman of the Board …

Six water industry leaders – including both individuals, water agencies, and education and conservation programs – were honored at the Tenth Annual San Bernardino County Water Conference recently held at the Ontario Convention Center.  The awards were presented by Carlos Rodriguez, CEO of the BIA Baldy View Chapter and Jonathon …

The effects of California’s four-plus year drought are all around us – brown lawns, dried-up plants, residences with new desert-scape yards — and now dead and collapsing pine trees, oaks and tanoaks. Whereas Californians were willing to practice conservation and have even voluntarily made significant changes in how they use …