Since January, the Salinas Valley has cried a dry song, accumulating only 0.8 inches of rain – 11 percent of its average for that time.
I can't help but think of the Bob Marley chorus, "Whatcha gonna do when the well runs dry?"
A news story in this week’s print edition looks at local golf course water use, especially in light of Gov. Jerry Brown’s order to force 25-pe…
As he stood on a patch of parched earth in the Sierra Nevada earlier today, Gov. Jerry Brown issued a stunning proclamation:
How many toilet flushes would it take to stabilize the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin?
There’s no such thing as free water, even when the water itself is free. Unlike a monthly water bill that most of us pay for a home or office,…