Spanning more than 500,000 acres in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, the Bay-Delta Estuary is a unique estuary formed by the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. The fresh water from these rivers mixes with the salt water from the tides of the San Francisco Bay to create the largest estuary on the Pacific Coast of […]
North of the office buildings and urban sprawl of San Jose and Santa Clara, situated just south of the San Francisco Bay, one of California’s most innovative and exciting advancements in water supply technology sits in an unassuming industrial area. From the outside, the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center does not look to be […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to watch the documentary, “Until the Last Drop,” sponsored by the Modesto Irrigation District. The filmmakers interviewed a range of stakeholders involved in California’s water waters to understand the transformation that the state’s water resources have undergone and the controversy of how water is used that has become a significant […]
This past Tuesday, I attended a webinar hosted by the Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency workshop program. During the webinar, participants learned from Ryan Marlinghaus of Pervious Products in Campbell, CA. The webinar covered a range of information regarding pervious pavement, including the unique challenges that the urban environments have for water runoff […]
Across California there are numerous organizations doing fantastic work to make sure that our water resources are managed appropriately through conservation efforts. Right here in Santa Clara California, there are several great organizations working tirelessly to keep water use low as the population of Silicon Valley continues to boom. Here are a few of the […]
While water conservation has been a growing topic in California over the past months as we stare down our second major drought in less than a decade, it is important to note that water resource management is not a California specific issue. Large areas across the American West and Worldwide are facing similar, if not […]
If there is one thing that Californians have learned over the past decade, it is that water conservation is our new normal. Variations in precipitation and a rapidly changing climate has left the long term viability of California’s traditional water resources in doubt. For the past century, California has relied on the slow release of […]