Water Resource Issues

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Vegan Eggs, Ethical Meat, and a Cupcake ATM!

​Hey guys! March 20th was Meatout. I refrained from eating meat. Best holiday ever.  ​The UN's World Water Day was this week too! Second coolest holiday of the week. Since this year's theme was food security, people actually talked about how meat is a nightmare for water conservation! It's ... More >>

East Comes West

​Hey guys! March 20th was Meatout. I refrained from eating meat. Best holiday ever.  ​The UN's World Water Day was this week too! Second coolest holiday of the week. Since this year's theme was food security, people actually talked about how meat is a nightmare for water conservation! It's ... More >>

SF's Drinking Water May Be Unsafe for Those with HIV/AIDS

​Hey guys! March 20th was Meatout. I refrained from eating meat. Best holiday ever.  ​The UN's World Water Day was this week too! Second coolest holiday of the week. Since this year's theme was food security, people actually talked about how meat is a nightmare for water conservation! It's ... More >>

A Field Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Dry Farmed Wines

Whole lotta irrigation goin' on in Napa.​Irrigation is plainly a function of the modern world. Though the ancient Romans built spectacular gravity-driven aqueducts, drip irrigation for agriculture was not invented until the late 1960s in Israel, and only in the 1970s did water-bearing pipes a ... More >>

California Drought May Go Away Because the Rain Won't

National Weather ServiceFolsom Dam is suffering from the blues.​If you are a rain lover, it's been a rough last three years. Hell, for many people it feels like we've had a drought since this year's high school graduates were born.With the rain pounding San Francisco and much of California over th ... More >>

Blackwater: DiFi's Questionable H2O Moves Muddy Dems' Election Hopes

Will Sen. Dianne Feinstein's shady water deal shoot down Dems' election chances? ​Take one part frozen orange juice concentrate, mix it with three parts water, and you have a delicious morning drink.Take one sleazy political juice deal, and mix it with rotten water policy, however, and California' ... More >>

S.F.'s tasty tap water about to get a little murkier

Will Sen. Dianne Feinstein's shady water deal shoot down Dems' election chances? ​Take one part frozen orange juice concentrate, mix it with three parts water, and you have a delicious morning drink.Take one sleazy political juice deal, and mix it with rotten water policy, however, and California' ... More >>

Will the new Hetch Hetchy plan wring San Francisco dry?

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

News & Booze Saturday: What's it Take to Get Somebody Fired at City Hall?

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

Welcome to the Greenest Hotels in SF, Tree Hugger

Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade By Peter Jamison The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — r ... More >>

Big Dam Mess

The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

Deep Xanadu-doo

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.