Tag: irrigation
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California’s Looming Water Pollution Problem, Produced Water
Tom Frantz on his almond grove in Shafter, California. (Photo: Jonas Jungblut) In California’s Central Valley, the oil industry has been dumping wastewater into unlined—and under-regulated—ponds, threatening the state’s limited groundwater and the humans who rely on it. In the winter of 2001, Tom Frantz and a friend were cruising in his pick-up truck along…
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The Unanticipated Benefits of California’s Water Policies
Water drips from a leaking irrigation pipe in the west San Joaquin Valley. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images From software to robots to technology originally designed to detect water on Mars, market-based policy approaches are spurring innovation, writes Ceres’ Kirsten James. Just as California’s climate policies have driven innovation in energy…
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Utah copes with drying streams, dying animals as drought tightens its grip
(Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune) Sam Plumb inspects the dry creek bed on his family’s property in Emigration Canyon. …with no relief in sight After one of the hottest and driest summers on record, Utah’s water supplies are so low that agricultural water deliveries have been cut short, stream gauges need to be repositioned…
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California’s water wars heat up at Sacramento hearing over river flows
At the Capitol on Monday, farmers protest a proposal by water officials to increase flows for the lower San Joaquin River. Photo: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press Central Valley farmers and their elected leaders converged on Sacramento on Tuesday to accuse the state of engineering a water grab that puts the fate of fish above…
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Pioneering solar-powered greenhouse to grow food without fresh water
Photo: Sundrop Farms head grower Adrian Simkins says the tomato project is a world-first. (Landline: Kerry Staight) A groundbreaking greenhouse that relies on sunlight and seawater to grow tomatoes officially opens next week, 300 kilometres north of Adelaide. The company Sundrop Farms spent several years developing the idea at a pilot plant on the outskirts…
