SF News In Drought Of Ideas, Public Utilities Commission Redoes Their 'Sexy' Water Conservation Campaign Since San Franciscans will obviously only save water if we're convinced that it's somehow sexy to do so, since last summer the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has employed a series of
SF News Warm Water 'Blob' In The Pacific May Be Fueling Drought Separate from the coming El Nino year, an ocean temperature anomaly has been lingering in the Pacific in the shape of a massive "blob" of unusually warm water, up to five degrees warmer
SF News Weather Report: Storm's A-Comin? Nothing but #grateful for #rain !! #bayarea pic.twitter.com/hYTfPT03zw— Susie Wyshak (@susiewyshak) June 10, 2015 The rain that kept you under the covers for too long this morning is predicted to potentially
SF News Use This Guide To CA's Drought-Friendliest Crops To Shut Down Food Shamers Of All Pursuasions Nearly any time you have a conversation about California's drought, someone will inevitably make a remark like "and that's why you shouldn't eat meat" or "almonds will be the death of us all"
SF News California Water Use Dropped 13.5 Percent In April According to data released by the State Water Resources Control Board, this April California reduced its water consumption by 13.5 percent over the same month in 2013. In a doom and gloom
SF News Senate Candidate Wants Your Vote 'So We Don't All Die' When you enter Mike Beitiks' website, iwillnotdonothing.org, you see that his message is simple. He wants us to live. "ISIS. Obamacare. Russia. The NSA. Wealth disparity. Immigration reform. Gun control. What do
SF News Some Jerk Wasted Almost 50 Million Gallons Of Water In The Middle Of A DROUGHT Since we're in the middle of a drought that's literally of historic proportions, let's not go around damaging things and letting almost 50 million gallons of water go down the drain. OK? On
SF News File Under Drought Upsides: California's Weed May Get Stronger Stressed marijuana plants being grown outdoors across Northern California, assuming their growers are not stealing massive amounts of water, are likely to produce more potent pot this year as we enter our fourth
SF News Drought Problems: Have You Seen A Major Uptick In Ants? I bring up the topic of our little six-legged pest-friends, Argentine ants, because I myself, as I type for you every day, have been engaged in a weeks-long battle to maintain a perimeter
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Car Wash Porn Since you really shouldn't be washing your car, like, ever, during this drought (unless you have access to grey water!), it makes sense that you might need a calming video like this remind
SF News Forecasters Promise El Niño Really Might Come Around For Real This Time, Really We all got burned last year after weather people got us all psyched up for a wet El Niño winter to alleviate some of the drought, and then it never came. (Well, it
SF News Video: William Shatner Has A $30 Billion Drought Solution From Space Even at 84 years old, William Shatner is willing to boldly go where no man has gone before. In this case, that might involve going a bit too far. In the above video,
SF News Study: Overdue 'Mega Storm' Could Do Same Damage As Loma Prieta Quake Forget droughts and earthquakes for a moment. According to a new report from the Bay Area Council, a business foundation dating back to 1945, an overdue "mega storm" that could make the rainpocalypse
SF News City Agency Proclaims That 'Brown Is The New Green' San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission sees your drought-conscious "Ugliest Yard In SF" competition, Department of the Environment. And now they're ready to raise you, with the disquieting slogan "Brown is the new Green.
SF News Drought Rules Revised Based On Feedback, SF In Most Lenient Water Usage Tier On Saturday, state water regulators issued a revised plan based on Governor Jerry Brown's April 1 mandate that everyone statewide cut back on water usage by 25 percent. The new plan takes into
SF News SF Holding Ugliest Yard Contest To Promote Water Conservation "It was supposed to be a lawn in a sea of paved front yards," writes one contestant, insisting their yard is the ugliest in SF, "But the drought had other ideas, as did
SF News Mandatory Gray Water Requirement For New Buildings Set To Freak Out Developers Supervisor Scott Wiener, who's often accused of being in the pocket of developers, has just proposed an aggressive, drought-conscious piece of legislation that would require all new developments in particular the huge and
SF News Governor Explains Why Drought Order Won't Limit Farmers In calling for water restrictions by executive order last week, Governor Jerry Brown has required cities and towns across the state to reduce water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. But
SF News New York Times Wags Its Finger At California's Drought Following Governor Brown's announcement last week about mandatory cutbacks in water usage, the New York Times has suddenly decided to take California's worsening drought seriously with a whole package of pieces discussing things
SF News How Much Water Do Bay Area Residents Really Use? In response to California Governor Jerry Browns' executive order to reduce water use statewide by 25 percent, The New York Times took a dive into the question of how much water Californians really
SF News California Drought: Governor Orders First-Ever Water Restrictions via Imgur While at the annual April 1st Sierra snowpack measurement, California Governor Jerry Brown announced an executive order directing the State Water Resources Control Board to work with local agencies to reduce
SF News Blame The Drought: East Bay Residents Complaining About Smelly Tap Water Be thankful there's still a healthy trickle coming out of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, San Francisco. Our neighbors to the east, who depend on other reservoirs for their drinking water, have experienced one
SF News Study Says Water Demand For Marijuana Cultivation Has Devastating Impact Scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have published a study, the first of its kind, concluding that in California's current drought, the demand for water to cultivate cannabis has devastating
SF News Filth As Virtue: How Your Dirty Jeans Might Help Save The World You already know all the ways you should be conserving water, either because you're a Californian in the throes of one of the worst droughts in recent history or because you are a
