With apologies to Jimmy Buffett, it appears that some Renoites have few qualms about watering during hot afternoons. Not a good idea now with Truckee River flows soon to reach pitifully small levels. But it isn’t a good idea ever. Why? Never mind that the local water purveyor, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA), says to Continue Reading »
Today the RGJ’s environmental reporter Jeff Delong reported on the successful spawning of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the lower Truckee River in 76 years. The fish dug spawning beds and reproduced in the Truckee River between the mouth of the river and Marble Bluff Dam. The article tells the story of how we lost this valuable resource Continue Reading »
Perhaps you read the editorial opinion published in the RGJ May 27, 2014 by the GM of the Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA – pronounced TUM-WA – now doesn’t that sound nice?). Therein the GM declared that the severe and continuing drought was absolutely no reason to conserve water here in the good ol’ Truckee Meadows anytime soon. Continue Reading »
Time has a way of compressing as we get older. It seems like only yesterday that our water resources in our lakes and rivers were in great shape. Today, not so much. At the dawn of the new millennium, Lake Tahoe was at full capacity, the reservoirs on the Truckee, likewise. The Truckee River was Continue Reading »
The USA Today reports in an article “Report: Climate change is here and getting worse” that we won’t have to wait to see the effects of a rapidly changing climate (mostly a rapidly warming climate). Many of us who were born in the 40s and 50s and 60s have observed this ourselves in the 14 Continue Reading »