Weekend Wrap-Up: Water Quality; Climate Change
Welcome back! Here’s the weekend wrap-up:
At the top of the scroll: Headlines on water quality issues continued throughout the weekend, including “Authorities Can’t Let Pot Farms Degrade State’s Water and Land,” an editorial in The Sacramento Bee; “Quit Stalling, Enforce the Law,” an editorial in the Chico Enterprise-Record; “Time to Ban Plastic Bags Statewide,” a commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle; and “Amid Pipeline Debate, Two Costly Cleanups Forever Change Towns,” an article in The New York Times. “Ninth Circuit Says Los Angeles County Flood Control District is Liable for River Pollution” was the topic of a Best Best & Krieger Legal Alert.
Climate change was also a topic. The Sacramento Bee reported, “Areas of Sacramento will be Inundated as Sea Rises Over the Years, Study Says.” The Los Angeles Times reported, “Effects of Climate Change in California are ‘Significant and Growing.”
This week in Sacramento the Senate returns from summer recess, a week after the Assembly, to face bills ranging from the California Environmental Quality Act to hydraulic fracking as the Los Angeles Times reported in “California Legislature Faces Raft of Bills on Volatile Issues.”
The Fresno Bee science and environment writer Mark Grossi @markgrossi on August 7 tweeted the following: A scary aerial at San Luis Reservoir: sometimes is near Hwy. 152, not now. View the photo.
Water Word of the Week: Aquafornia’s Water Word of the Week from sister site Aquapedia is Lake Tahoe. To learn more, read the post, “Lake Tahoe: Aquafornia Water Word(s) of the Week.” Lake Tahoe is just one of more than 200 definitions of water terms from A to Z on Aquapedia, the Water Education Foundation’s new interactive online water encyclopedia.
Last Week’s Top Stories: The most viewed story was “Gov. Brown Struggles to Shore Up Support for Water Plan.” For the second week in a row, the most viewed commentary was “Q&A: Driller Shares Views on Valley Well Problems.”
What’s on the Calendar? The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) will hold its Regulatory Summit on Wednesday, August 14, in Oxnard.