Weekend Wrap-Up: Dry Year; Delta
Welcome back! Here’s the weekend wrap-up:
At the top of the scroll: The media continued its reporting on the state’s dry weather conditions with the following assortment of articles: “Dry Year Spurs New Conservation Orders for 2014,” from the Associated Press; “Drought Brings Water Rationing Orders” in The Sacramento Bee; “Los Angeles on Track to Set Dry-Weather Record,” Los Angeles Times; “Driest Year Ever in California Sparks Fire, Water Fears,” USA Today; “Scant December Rainfall Makes Marin Harder to Reach for Endangered Coho,” Marin Independent Journal; “California Drought Deepens as Another Year’s Rains Stay Away,” San Jose Mercury News; and “2013 was Banner Year for Water Well Permits in Stanislaus County,” The Modesto Bee.
Talk of Delta-related issues made news in columns, including the Los Angeles Times’ Capitol Journal by George Skelton, Dan Walters in The Sacramento Bee, and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Outdoors by Tom Stienstra.
Headlines also ranged from “[Assemblyman] Anthony Rendon Poised to Wade Into California Water Issues,” an article in The Sacramento Bee’s “Californians to Watch in 2014″ series, to “San Luis Reservoir Proposal Would Fortify Dam,” an article in the Stockton Record, to Capital Public Radio’s “San Joaquin River Restoration Hits Snags.”
Water Word of the Week: Aquafornia’s Water Word of the Week from sister site Aquapedia is Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, whose bio is included in the Historical Water People section of the Water Education Foundation’s free online water encyclopedia. To learn more, read the post titled “Edmund G. “Pat” Brown: Aquafornia Water Word of the Week.”
Last Week’s Top Stories: The most viewed story was “Delta Tunnels Plan’s True Price Tag: As Much as $67 Billion,” from the San Jose Mercury News. Excluding news articles, “The ESA, Fish and Me,” a post from the California WaterBlog by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, received the most views.