by Gary Chandler | Jul 8, 2021 | Climate Change, Water Conservation
Heat Waves, High Winds Compounding Water Shortage Water has always been the key to life in the American West. Without a series of land-grabs, water schemes and the industrial revolution, sprawling farms, ranches and cities would have just been a dream. Now, the...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 6, 2018 | Climate Change, Water Conservation
Agriculture Consumes 80 Percent Of California’s Water Editor’s Note: California is America’s most populous state with about 39 million people. It just overtook Brazil as the seventh-largest economy in the world. It’s the fifth-largest supplier...
by Gary Chandler | Jul 17, 2017 | Climate Change, Water Conservation
Climate Change Taught In Public Schools Fernando Rojas is holding up a photograph of a pocket of countryside, between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, that has been his home, his livelihood, and his passion for all of his 74 years. His picture shows a lake,...
by Gary Chandler | Sep 22, 2016 | Public Health, Water Conservation
Chromium-6 In America’s Drinking Water In the film Erin Brockovich, the environmental crusader confronts the lawyer of a power company that polluted the tap water of Hinkley, Calif., with a carcinogenic chemical called chromium-6. When the lawyer picks up a...
by Gary Chandler | Nov 11, 2014 | Extreme Weather, Water Conservation
Sparked By Deforestation In Amazon In Brazil’s biggest city, a record dry season and rising demand for water has led to a punishing drought. It has actually been raining quite heavily over the last few days around Sao Paulo but it has barely made a drop of...
