Category Archives: Drought

By Henry Fountain In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Niño in a generation. In some parts of the world, the problem has been not enough rain; in others, too much. Downpours were so bad in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, that …

By Ted Hesson If you strolled past a vine­yard on Don Camer­on’s land four win­ters ago, you would have seen something odd: wa­ter, up to a foot-and-a-half of it, drench­ing the grapev­ines and turn­ing a nor­mally pic­tur­esque field in­to an un­sightly bog. The 63-year-old Camer­on is the gen­er­al man­ager and vice pres­id­ent of Ter­ran­ova Ranch, a 5,500-acre farm in Cali­for­nia’s San …

By Don Curlee, Ag At Large / Porterville Recorder While the current drought-influenced thinking causes most of us to consider how water can be better stored, conserved and conveyed, one recent report emphasizes the importance of protecting, enhancing and using the supply that is below ground. First of all it acknowledges that much of California’s groundwater has been depleted or …