SF News Drastic California Water Reductions Could Be Looming as White House Proposes Unilateral Usage Limits on States The seven U.S. states (including California) that get their water from the Colorado River could be looking at severe water supply cuts, as the Colorado River is shrinking prodigiously, potentially setting up both a water crisis and an electricity crisis.
SF News Toxic Ash Looms As Ongoing Health Hazard In Wake Of North Bay Fires The collective North Bay wildfires have moved on from emergency response to the investigation and cleanup phases, as displaced individuals return to their homes to assess the damage done. Chemists and biologists are
Arts & Entertainment Look At This Water Filter Commercial Starring Steph Curry This catchy commercial tune will be trapped between your ears all weekend. Direct from San Francisco-based production company Portal A, a new Brita water filter 2-minute and 39-second video-ad stars "social media sensation"
SF News One Quarter Of California Isn't In A Drought Anymore San Francisco's newly verdant hilltops don't lie. According to a weekly national report from the US Drought Monitor issued yesterday, 12 percent of California had normal or better moisture and another 12 percent
SF News Drunk Men Who Slashed Inflatable Dam, Wasting 50M Gallons Of Water, Fined Three men who damaged an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek in May of last year, wasting just shy of 50 million gallons of water in the process, will be forced to pay a
SF News Lead-Contaminated Water At Healdsburg Elementary Alarms Parents Toxic levels of lead have contaminated the water at Healdsburg Elementary School since at least November, a fact which school officials are just now making public. The water, with contamination levels reportedly 59
SF News The Sacramento River Delta Could Have Its Own Katrina-Like Levee Disaster As you may or may not be aware, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is made up of a series of levees, all of which protect a freshwater source that supplies water to two-thirds
SF News Video: Broken San Bruno Pipe Releases Millions Of Gallons Of Water A major water pipeline ruptured last night in San Bruno, spilling millions of gallons of water and remaining open into this morning NBC Bay Area reports. According to the San Francisco Public Utilities
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 Get Some ID Before You Let That PUC Worker Come In Your House It's kind of scary that when many of us see a person in an "official" looking vest, we assume that the person is actually "official." (Remember this guy?) But that trust is what
SF News The Flavor Of SF's Tap Water Will Be Changing, Slightly We've been lulled into thinking this past year that San Francisco's precious, Sierra Nevada-borne water supply at Hetch Hetchy was under no threat of depleting despite the dought-related suffering that's happening all across
SF News Update: Do Not Try To Find Emergency Drinking Water From Hydrants After An Earthquake Update: SFist has received official word from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that the whole emergency-drinking-water-from-hydrants program was discontinued in recent years due to fears about backflow of unsafe water into the
SF News Some Mandatory Water Restrictions Could Be On Their Way Next Week To deal with this year's record drought in California, which may be a 100-year or a 500-year drought depending on who you talk to, the State Water Resources Control Board is deciding next
SF News Does San Francisco Even Know There Is A Drought? According to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Franciscans have done little to change their water habits in the face of a record-setting drought affecting all of California. It's almost like San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Honor World Wide Water Day With Soma Your Britta water filter, if I may, is vile. Little back specks. Green algae forming around the bottom. The plastic-ness of it all. Gross. Which is why San Franciscan and innovator Mike Del
SF News S.F. Public Utilities Commission Asks You (Yes You) To Quit Using So Much Water Brace yourselves, folks: the worst drought conditions in California history have become a reality inside San Francisco's myopic distortion zone. In an announcement today, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has asked local
SF News Tips On How To Start Conserving Water During The Drought After Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency, its time you got serious about water conservation. Does this mean we all now must to take five minute showers instead of 20 minute showers?
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Spreckels Lake Somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy at Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park, which is under renovation and looks like a tired metaphor for the fleetingness
Arts & Entertainment This Mission Creek Houseboat Will Make You Cry The New York Times is good at reminding us about everything we're not. We're not especially fashion conscious by comparison, we're not preoccupied by Ivy League admissions (thank god), and we're certainly not
SF News Meanies Use Water Pistol To Mug Young Couple A trio of gooberheads robbed a young man and young woman on Wednesday night in the Excelsior district using nothing more than a water gun. While waiting for a bus near Naples Street
SF News Photo: Fire Hydrant Explosion In Noe Valley At around 8:30 this morning, the hydrant at Sanchez and Day in Noe Valley was knocked over, creating this glorious/frustrating scene. SFist reader and local photog David Gallagher captured the watery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Person Very Upset About Potrero Whole Foods Charging For Wi-Fi When Whole Foods isn't scaring the bejeezus out of us with clown signage, they're stealing our hard-earned American dollars. See, the Portreo Hill Whole Foods now required a "donation" of $5 to use
