Tuesday Top of the Scroll: How to beat the drought? Inland Empire water agency wants to make it rain
Programs from the drought-busting handbook practiced by Southern California water agencies include recycling water, building storm-water capture basins and offering cash rebates for replacing thirsty lawns with xeriscape landscaping. With the grip from a second year of drought tightening, a regional water-planning agency in the Inland Empire is moving ahead for the first time in its history with a more controversial program: cloud seeding. The Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Commission has approved a four-year pilot cloud-seeding project …