Category: Solutions
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Every last drop: Zero-waste water builds water resilience
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Reusing wastewater could be the solution to Europe’s growing water scarcity problem. The 34 dairy cows chewing the cud on a floating platform in the port of Rotterdam probably aren’t thinking about water scarcity—a major challenge in the world today—but they are participating in a Europe-wide effort to find solutions to this modern-day dilemma.…
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Climate-smart practices help dairies, nourish crops
At DeJager Farms, manure from dairy barns is processed before reaching a holding lagoon. A high-tech system blends in fresh water and calibrates nitrogen levels to meet crop nutrient needs. Photo/Vicky Boyd Prompted by drought-induced water allocation cutbacks in 2014, the diversified DeJager Farms began looking at buried drip irrigation and manure water from its…
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CDFW: Beavers are back on Tule River Tribal lands in the Southern Sierra Nevada
After years of work by the Tule River Tribe, a family of seven beavers has been released into the South Fork Tule River watershed on the Tule River Indian Reservation as part of a multi-year beaver reintroduction effort done in partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). Beavers play a critical role in the…
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Groundwater Recharge in the San Joaquin Valley
Overdraft has caused big problems in the San Joaquin Valley—and in our drought-prone state, groundwater recharge is one of the most promising ways to protect ourselves against hotter, longer dry periods. So are we socking away enough water during the wet periods? That was the subject of our event on Tuesday, June 11, “Replenishing Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley.”…
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Requiring water users to pay for ecological damage
FEATURE: A conversation with environmental lawyer Karrigan Börk Water diversions can harm aquatic ecosystems, riparian habitat, and beaches fed by river sediment. But the people who use water don’t bear the cost of this ecological damage. “The public pays for it,” says Karrigan Börk, a University of California, Davis law professor who has a PhD…
