Drought - Page 6

A fast-moving wildfire in Lake and Napa counties in Northern California has destroyed hundreds of homes as the blaze spread to consume more than 60,000 acres by Monday morning.

The El Niño currently forming in the Pacific Ocean could potentially be the strongest weather pattern of its kind since 1950, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicted Tuesday.

Kylie Jenner and her rapper boyfriend Tyga were both cited by the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District for wasting water at their lavish homes this summer as California struggled through a fourth year of record drought, reports local affiliate NBC4.

A 36-year-old father of three in Lake Elsinore, California could lose his right hand due to a rattlesnake bite he received after he picked the venomous reptile up to take a “selfie.”

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released new research revealing that huge swaths of the Central Valley are sinking at the rate of up to two inches per month due to accelerating groundwater pumping in the fourth year of the California drought.

The State of California is planning to use eminent domain law to acquire hundreds of farms in the Delta for a controversial, multi-billion-dollar underground water tunnel project proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The city of Santa Cruz planned an emergency breach of the San Lorenzo River Monday morning as river water flooded city streets and buildings, causing extensive damage, reports local NBC affiliate KSBW.

While climatologists keep an eye on what could be an historic El Niño on the West Coast this winter, another, less-well-known weather pattern currently developing in the Pacific Ocean could end California’s drought and then some–leaving the Golden State up to its ears in rainfall for up to a decade.

Brown marmorated stinkbugs are hitting agriculturally rich Stanislaus County, infiltrating drought-stricken California with potentially devastating results.

Governor Jerry Brown’s policies reducing the number of inmates in the state have not affected the number of firefighters fighting fires.

The delta smelt may disappear from California because of the extreme drought. Farmers in the Central Valley may soon receive the water denied them for years because of environmentalists’ desire to flush fresh water out to sea for the smelts’ sake.

Californians cut water use by 27.3 percent in June, the State Water Resources Control Board announced Thursday, good enough to exceed Gov. Jerry Brown’s executive order earlier this year for a 25 percent statewide water reduction.

LOS ANGELES – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced a new emergency drought relief bill on Wednesday designed to help water-starved California get through a record four-year water shortage.

According to a poll released this week by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), almost two-thirds of Californians believe, contrary to scientific evidence, that the state’s historic drought has been caused by global warming (not “climate change,” but “global warming”).

Every rain cloud has a silver lining–and nowhere is that more true than in California, even though there haven’t been many rain clouds overhead in some time. California’s record four-year drought is driving a new technology boom, with several startups

As Breitbart News reported in “Pot Tax: Sacramento Politicians ‘Jonesing’ for a Spending Fix,” the Democrat-controlled California Legislature is desperate for marijuana taxes, which could arise from a 2016 ballot initiative legalizing marijuana, in hopes of gaining a consistent new tax revenue source. But the California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that illegal pot growing is drying up watersheds and causing some at-risk fisheries to approach collapse.

An El Niño forming off of the Pacific Coast could morph into the largest weather event of its kind in recorded history.

According to Sacramento utility officials, over 3.3 million gallons of water were lost last year due to leakages from the city’s water system.

The California drought may be hitting the state hard, but wine growers in the Lodi region say that the paucity of water will make their 2015 wines tastier.

A new aerial video taken by the California Department of Water Resources shows just how severely the state’s record four-year drought has impacted water levels at key reservoirs.

The Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously this week to approve a loan to reopen a mothballed desalination plant in an effort to battle California’s record four-year drought.

The San Diego County Water Authority not only won $190 million last week from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, but may have also won $2 billion in future costs savings and another 5 percent of all “Met” water that is currently being wholesaled to the other 25 other Southern California water districts.

California’s record four-year drought will have little impact on the state’s overall economy, according to credit rating agency Moody’s.

LOS ANGELES – On Thursday, the House passed Republican-backed legislation that would ensure California farmers adequate water supply to combat the state’s record four-year drought, despite a veto threat from the White House.

Unlike tother beaches in the state, the beaches managed by the Los Angeles County’s Department of Beaches and Harbors will still offer showers to beachgoers.

Veterans Affairs facilities in West Los Angeles and Loma Linda are apparently unconcerned about wasting water despite the state’s severe drought.

A California court dealt a potentially major setback Friday to state water regulators when it ruled that curtailment notices sent to four water agencies to stop pumping water during the drought violated those agencies’ due process rights.

California has always had problems with homes being damaged due to earthquakes. But heavy draining of groundwater over the last four years of a persistent drought is magnifying ground subsidence that it is already destroying infrastructure and homes in the Central

A California water district has filed suit against Tom Selleck for water theft, alleging the actor repeatedly filled a commercial tanker with water from a public hydrant and used it at his personal property.

The Fresno Bee has published an editorial blasting marijuana growers, noting the environmental impact of marijuana farms around the state of California and the catastrophic ecological impact effect of 18 years of medical marijuana legalization, including “exacerbating the drought.”

Californians drastically cut their water use in May, but water bills for millions of the state’s residents will inch higher as municipal water agencies continue to lose money during a record four-year drought.

California cities are working overtime to conserve water during the state’s record four-year drought–but one city became a victim of its own savings success when it was forced to dump more than half a million gallons of drinkable water down the drain.

California residents slashed water use by 29 percent in May in the biggest conservation gain by the state since Gov. Jerry Brown announced mandatory water restrictions earlier this year.

One California man is going well beyond skipping showers to battle the state’s record four-year drought.

LOS ANGELES – Some California water districts holding senior rights to river water may defy the state’s order to stop all water diversions as mass confusion reigns over the nature of curtailment notices sent out by the state’s top water regulators. Earlier

Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday were struggling to contain a massive blaze that had broken out last week near the Alpine County town of Markleeville, California, just southeast of Lake Tahoe.