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They’ll be released once they learn to hunt and capture live mice and insects Richardson puts in their cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227719264\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is putting a strain on wildlife rehab centers like the California Living Museum. Richardson says intake has nearly doubled this year because more people are finding weak, emaciated animals near hiking trails and roads, or even stranded in irrigation canals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great blue heron. She was found on the side of the road,” Richardson says, pointing to another cage across from the kestrels. But unlike the kestrels, this graceful bird isn’t making a peep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson took X-rays because he thought the bird had a leg fracture. 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I get them at 11 or 12 at night,” says Dan Turner, who operates Critter Creek with his partner, Louise Culver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner and Culver have run the center for 30 years. Or, as they like to say, it’s run them. They operate on a shoestring budget and depend on donations. They say they always need more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve rescued hundreds of shorebirds since the drought – like the 50 or so young egrets they nursed back to health this summer. Turner says once they can fly, they get released. He says it with such conviction that I ask him jokingly if that’s his motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to know my motto,” Turner says with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I do,” I say. “What is it? You’re too old for this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs. “Ha ha! Yeah that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culver agrees it’s hard work, a 24/7 job. 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They'll be released to the wild soon. \u003ccite>(Dan Turner/Critter Creek Wildlife Station)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says they are also getting a lot more calls about “pest” animals, like raccoons. “They’re everywhere in the city, and unfortunately because of the drought, I think a lot of these animals have to interface with people,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rural Critter Creek property is large enough that Turner drives a golf cart to get around. He takes me to one area where there are several outdoor cages he’s rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are old zoo cages, they are probably 50 years old or 60 years old,” Turner says. There’s a hunting cage where birds learn to catch prey. One smaller cage is covered with a tarp. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Mexican cowboy, known as a charro, pulls the reins to make his horse dance for an audience gathered at the Thursday night market in Livingston. This town south of Modesto bills itself the “sweet potato capital of California” and is home to farmworkers who speak Spanish, English and Punjabi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s mayor pro tem, Gurpal Samra, says he regularly talks to the Sikh community about water conservation at his gurdwara, or Sikh temple. Tonight he’s working the crowd at the street market, handing out free shutoff valves residents can attach to their bathroom sinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very easy to use,” explains Samra. “Soon as you put your hand underneath it, the water flows, and as soon as you move your hands, water stops. 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And that’s why Livingston was the first city to ask the State Water Resources Control Board for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/alt_enforce.pdf\">alternative compliance order\u003c/a>, so they won’t get fined for failing to meet their water-saving target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do we do? Do you wish for us to have Foster Farms shut down? That’s not economically feasible,” says Samra. “There are a lot of folks in Livingston and up and down the valley that rely on Foster Farms running. It’s not only the people working in the plant, also the people that grow chickens, the ones that supply fuel. So that’s a lot of the economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster Farms declined my request for an interview, but in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.fosterfarms.com/about/press/press_release.asp?press_release_id=225\">statement\u003c/a>, the company said 2014 USDA rules to prevent salmonella required the chicken plant to use more water. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have is one large customer that uses more water than the rest of the city combined,” says Samra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about Foster Farms, which employs about 3,000 people in its processing plant here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10710958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10710958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"A Foster Farms truck rolls through Livingston.\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-400x220.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-1440x792.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-1180x649.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/FosterFarmsTruck-960x528.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Foster Farms truck rolls through Livingston. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Samra says the plant uses nearly 70 percent of Livingston’s water. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a major victory for African wildlife, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 96 on Sunday to close a loophole in the state’s ban on importing and buying elephant ivory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the third state to ban all sales of ivory after New York and New Jersey. The state is \u003ca href=\"http://docs.nrdc.org/wildlife/files/wil_15010601a.pdf\">one of the largest U.S. markets for \u003c/a>the product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California it’s particularly important because of the large population of Asian immigrants,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/about-us/elephants/grace-ge-gabriel\">Grace Ge Gabriel\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifaw.org/\">International Fund for Animal Welfare\u003c/a>’s Regional Director in Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This ban is going to stigmatize purchasing ivory, and that’s what will help change behavior.’\u003ccite> Grace Ge Gabriel, International Fund for Animal Welfare \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Second only to Los Angeles, San Francisco sells the most ivory in California. The city’s Chinatown sells trinkets like jewelry, chopsticks, carved horns and statues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has already had an ivory ban on the books since 1977. Until now, shopkeepers were allowed to sell ivory that was imported before 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many store owners have exploited this exemption, claiming their products were imported before 1977. Since it’s impossible to “date” ivory, it’s been difficult to tell which ivory is new and which was imported decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, before the new ban, 80 percent of ivory sold in San Francisco was likely illegal under state law, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/media/2015/150107a.asp\">a National Resources Defense Council study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the legislation say banning nearly all sales will reduce demand for the product and make it easier to control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worldwide, more than 30,000 elephants are killed each year for their tusks–nearly 100 elephants a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poachers sell the lucrative ivory for thousands of dollars per pound. Increasingly, militias and criminal gangs in Sudan, Uganda the Democratic Republic of the Congo sell ivory to purchase weapons, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifaw.org/sites/default/files/ifaw-criminal-nature-2013-low-res_0.pdf\">according to IFAW\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ban is going to stigmatize purchasing ivory, and that’s what will help change behavior,” said Ge Gabriel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California bill, authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego was co-sponsored by the Oakland Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes into effective July 1, 2016, with fines up to $50,000 and a year in jail for illegal sales.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Along a picture-postcard stretch of coast in Carlsbad near San Diego, fishermen cast their lines into an emerald seawater lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short weeks, the lagoon will also be feeding a steady supply of water into what will be the \u003ca href=\"http://carlsbaddesal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">largest operating desalination facility\u003c/a> in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227004723&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a kayak fisherman, this is our recreational area for those of us who live here, and of course we want it to be the best project it can be,” says Mark Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert runs the American branch of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ide-tech.com/company-profile/global-offices/ide-north-america/\" target=\"_blank\">IDE\u003c/a>, an Israeli company hired by the San Diego County Water Authority to design and operate the plant. It’s just one of hundreds designed by IDE around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four hundred facilities globally in 40 different countries,\" says Lambert, sitting at a long conference table inside the Carlsbad offices of Poseidon Water, a firm working with IDE on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When up and running, the Carlsbad plant will pipe around 50 million gallons of water a day to households across the San Diego area. That's about 7 percent of the region's overall usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's a modest amount compared to Israel, where about 40 percent of the nation's potable water flows directly from a network of seawater desalination plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert says the desalination business starting booming in Israel in the late 1990s in the midst of a historic drought not unlike California's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel is probably the most well known for developing the technology to the state of the art,” says Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours east in the sweltering Coachella Valley, an Israeli date farmer named \u003ca href=\"http://www.agweb.com/article/every_last_drop_a_water_conservation_qa_NAA_Ben_Potter/\" target=\"_blank\">Moshe Kirat\u003c/a> is watering date trees from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I want to stop the water for example, you see the meter running,\" says Kirat scrolling around a virtual control panel lined with columns of numbers and percentages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat left his own farm in Israel a couple of years ago to run day-to-day operations at Kohl Ranch, a sprawling date farm east of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He installed a high-tech drip irrigation system that precisely monitors water flow. It's a way of farming that's alien to many Coachella Valley farmers, who still rely on more water-intensive flood irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kirat says that kind of irrigation is wasteful and potentially harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up a picture that shows a flood-irrigated field after the water has receded. Kirat points to the salty residue the water left behind -- salt that can seep into a tree’s root system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when I saw this I was in shock. I didn’t understand,” says Kirat, his voice rising. “You come to a field and you’ll see this! You don’t think to improve something or to change something?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10707295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mosche Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moshe Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Israeli grower pays around $2,800 for one acre-foot of water. That's about 326,000 gallons -- enough water to flood a football field to a depth of 12 inches or supply two California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers in the Coachella Valley, who get most of their water from the Colorado River under a 1947 agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, pay about $30 an acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While down in San Diego County, where Mauricio Tapia used to grow avocados, it’s about $1,500 for that same acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven months ago, Tapia walked away from those avocado trees and took a job at Kohl Ranch assisting Kirat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This situation we have here in California today, it’s going to be more difficult to get water to irrigate (what) we have planted today,\" says Tapia referring to the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technology like (Kirat) is applying and Israeli people are applying are going to help us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pretty much the same thing last year when he inked an agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown to encourage Israel and California to work together on water issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California doesn’t need to have a water problem. By coming together we can overcome this,” said Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Los Angeles County cemented its own water knowledge exchange program with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/sources/desalination.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara\u003c/a> and Huntington Beach, are working on ocean desalination projects of their own with Israeli firm IBE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what’s the incentive for transitioning to a big, expensive drip irrigation system if water in some places is still so cheap? Or, wonders Richard Atwater of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.socalwater.org/news/press-releases/23-southern-california-water-committee-appoints-richard-w-atwater-as-executive-director\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Water Committee\u003c/a>, for building a billion-dollar ocean desalination plant that can only serve a small part of California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any water planner who thinks we’re going to take desalted seawater from down on the coast and pipe it up to downtown LA or the San Fernando Valley,\" says Atwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be really, really expensive. We have better solutions than that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Atwater points to wastewater recycling that he and other supporters believe California has yet to fully take advantage of. He's also quick to point out that Israelis don't have the love affair with lush green lawns and golf courses that we do in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences between Israel and California is in the cities, and the desire to have lush green landscapes,\" says Atwater. \"Half of our water use is outdoor water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Kohl Ranch, Moshe Kirat and Mauricio Tapia are clearing weeds so they can get a better look at the flow from a drip irrigation line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeds and the soil are bone dry. But the dates are tender to the touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat plucks a handful and offers them to me, saying that Israelis believe you should eat seven dates a day to insure good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the drip irrigation system, says Tapia, the trees drink up just what they need and nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Tapia what he thinks it'll take for other farmers here and in other parts of California to adopt this kind of high-tech drip irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More expensive water perhaps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the key,\" says Tapia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And more politics, more population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, more drought.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Along a picture-postcard stretch of coast in Carlsbad near San Diego, fishermen cast their lines into an emerald seawater lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short weeks, the lagoon will also be feeding a steady supply of water into what will be the \u003ca href=\"http://carlsbaddesal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">largest operating desalination facility\u003c/a> in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227004723&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a kayak fisherman, this is our recreational area for those of us who live here, and of course we want it to be the best project it can be,” says Mark Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert runs the American branch of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ide-tech.com/company-profile/global-offices/ide-north-america/\" target=\"_blank\">IDE\u003c/a>, an Israeli company hired by the San Diego County Water Authority to design and operate the plant. It’s just one of hundreds designed by IDE around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four hundred facilities globally in 40 different countries,\" says Lambert, sitting at a long conference table inside the Carlsbad offices of Poseidon Water, a firm working with IDE on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When up and running, the Carlsbad plant will pipe around 50 million gallons of water a day to households across the San Diego area. That's about 7 percent of the region's overall usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's a modest amount compared to Israel, where about 40 percent of the nation's potable water flows directly from a network of seawater desalination plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert says the desalination business starting booming in Israel in the late 1990s in the midst of a historic drought not unlike California's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel is probably the most well known for developing the technology to the state of the art,” says Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours east in the sweltering Coachella Valley, an Israeli date farmer named \u003ca href=\"http://www.agweb.com/article/every_last_drop_a_water_conservation_qa_NAA_Ben_Potter/\" target=\"_blank\">Moshe Kirat\u003c/a> is watering date trees from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I want to stop the water for example, you see the meter running,\" says Kirat scrolling around a virtual control panel lined with columns of numbers and percentages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat left his own farm in Israel a couple of years ago to run day-to-day operations at Kohl Ranch, a sprawling date farm east of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He installed a high-tech drip irrigation system that precisely monitors water flow. It's a way of farming that's alien to many Coachella Valley farmers, who still rely on more water-intensive flood irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kirat says that kind of irrigation is wasteful and potentially harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up a picture that shows a flood-irrigated field after the water has receded. Kirat points to the salty residue the water left behind -- salt that can seep into a tree’s root system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when I saw this I was in shock. I didn’t understand,” says Kirat, his voice rising. “You come to a field and you’ll see this! You don’t think to improve something or to change something?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10707295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mosche Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moshe Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Israeli grower pays around $2,800 for one acre-foot of water. That's about 326,000 gallons -- enough water to flood a football field to a depth of 12 inches or supply two California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers in the Coachella Valley, who get most of their water from the Colorado River under a 1947 agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, pay about $30 an acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While down in San Diego County, where Mauricio Tapia used to grow avocados, it’s about $1,500 for that same acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven months ago, Tapia walked away from those avocado trees and took a job at Kohl Ranch assisting Kirat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This situation we have here in California today, it’s going to be more difficult to get water to irrigate (what) we have planted today,\" says Tapia referring to the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technology like (Kirat) is applying and Israeli people are applying are going to help us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pretty much the same thing last year when he inked an agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown to encourage Israel and California to work together on water issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California doesn’t need to have a water problem. By coming together we can overcome this,” said Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Los Angeles County cemented its own water knowledge exchange program with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/sources/desalination.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara\u003c/a> and Huntington Beach, are working on ocean desalination projects of their own with Israeli firm IBE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what’s the incentive for transitioning to a big, expensive drip irrigation system if water in some places is still so cheap? Or, wonders Richard Atwater of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.socalwater.org/news/press-releases/23-southern-california-water-committee-appoints-richard-w-atwater-as-executive-director\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Water Committee\u003c/a>, for building a billion-dollar ocean desalination plant that can only serve a small part of California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any water planner who thinks we’re going to take desalted seawater from down on the coast and pipe it up to downtown LA or the San Fernando Valley,\" says Atwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be really, really expensive. We have better solutions than that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Atwater points to wastewater recycling that he and other supporters believe California has yet to fully take advantage of. He's also quick to point out that Israelis don't have the love affair with lush green lawns and golf courses that we do in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences between Israel and California is in the cities, and the desire to have lush green landscapes,\" says Atwater. \"Half of our water use is outdoor water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Kohl Ranch, Moshe Kirat and Mauricio Tapia are clearing weeds so they can get a better look at the flow from a drip irrigation line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeds and the soil are bone dry. But the dates are tender to the touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat plucks a handful and offers them to me, saying that Israelis believe you should eat seven dates a day to insure good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the drip irrigation system, says Tapia, the trees drink up just what they need and nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Tapia what he thinks it'll take for other farmers here and in other parts of California to adopt this kind of high-tech drip irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More expensive water perhaps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the key,\" says Tapia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And more politics, more population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s relentless four-year drought has had some unexpected consequences. It’s uncovered lost bits of history — ancient petroglyphs and remnants of mining towns at the bottom of reservoirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the canyons of the Sierra foothills, the legendary rapids of the Stanislaus River are back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stanislaus feeds New Melones Reservoir, about 80 miles east of the Bay Area — except that lately it hasn’t been feeding it much. The reservoir, which holds water for the federally operated Central Valley Project, has dropped to just over 10 percent of capacity. It’s receded so much that some of it has reverted to flowing river, exposing rapids that disappeared when the Army Corps of Engineers erected a \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=New+Melones+Unit+Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">600-foot-high dam\u003c/a>, nearly 40 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look above us now,” Mark Dubois called out from the stern of a yellow inflatable raft. “Look downstream, you can see 40 feet above our heads would be reservoir in full season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2015/10/StanislausDubois.mp3\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/eanN_RJSdOs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Dubois started running this river as a teenager. Now in his mid-60s, his bearded, 6-foot-8 presence is still bigger than life. He became world famous briefly in 1979, when he took a bold — some would say, reckless — stand to save this stretch of river from being submerged by the new dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been groping all those years and every year since to describe the magic of every square foot of this river and what it does to people’s lives,” he says, “and I still have no words for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1979, when Dubois was 30 years old, he did have a kind of epiphany. After \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SpiritoftheStan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">years of protests and political action\u003c/a>, it looked like he and his fellow activists had run out of options for stopping the canyon’s inundation, and the new, expanded reservoir was about to be filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_287787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-287787 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-800x600.jpg\" alt='Four years of drought have exposed standing forests that were underwater and \"bathtub rings\" that mark previous levels of the New Melones reservoir.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four years of drought have exposed standing forests that were underwater and “bathtub rings” that mark previous levels of the New Melones reservoir. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In that moment I had no idea what I was going to do,” he says, “but I knew that in that moment, I couldn’t just turn away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Dubois went down to the hardware store, bought some chain, and shackled himself to a canyon wall at a secret spot on the river’s edge — one that he knew would soon be underwater. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Dubois started running this river as a teenager. Now in his mid-60s, his bearded, 6-foot-8 presence is still bigger than life. He became world famous briefly in 1979, when he took a bold — some would say, reckless — stand to save this stretch of river from being submerged by the new dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been groping all those years and every year since to describe the magic of every square foot of this river and what it does to people’s lives,” he says, “and I still have no words for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1979, when Dubois was 30 years old, he did have a kind of epiphany. After \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SpiritoftheStan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">years of protests and political action\u003c/a>, it looked like he and his fellow activists had run out of options for stopping the canyon’s inundation, and the new, expanded reservoir was about to be filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_287787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-287787 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-800x600.jpg\" alt='Four years of drought have exposed standing forests that were underwater and \"bathtub rings\" that mark previous levels of the New Melones reservoir.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/IMG_3577-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four years of drought have exposed standing forests that were underwater and “bathtub rings” that mark previous levels of the New Melones reservoir. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In that moment I had no idea what I was going to do,” he says, “but I knew that in that moment, I couldn’t just turn away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Dubois went down to the hardware store, bought some chain, and shackled himself to a canyon wall at a secret spot on the river’s edge — one that he knew would soon be underwater. He padlocked the chains and tossed the keys out of his reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if he was actually prepared to go under. His thoughtful one-word reply: “Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move had been kept under close wraps. Dubois knew every corner of the canyon and was so well hidden that after several days of searching, officials suspected a hoax. But it was real, and Dubois’ act stunned even many of his fellow activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I didn’t do this wanting to commit suicide. I wanted them to choose.’\u003ccite> Mark Dubois,\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Gina Cuclis, who worked on the Save-the-Stan campaign as a college student, remembers her reaction when someone handed her a newspaper in late May of ’79.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my god — look what he did!,” she recalls thinking. “And then it was stunned and shocked, but then it was like, wow. Wow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls that at the time, she was nervous on Dubois’ behalf, but never actually feared for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was glad he did it because it was the big event we needed,” Cuclis says. “How do you get attention? You gotta do something shocking, sadly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t do this wanting to commit suicide,” says Dubois. “I wanted them (the Army Corps of Engineers) to choose. It was: You are consciously deciding to flood all the life in this canyon. Now you can choose to flood one more life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cockroaches are the houseguests that Tim Price and his wife, Diane, never wanted. Residents of Pasadena for 43 years, they thought they'd seen everything they were going to see on their property and in their house from the insect kingdom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until they encountered what Price calls the \"king of all roaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't know if it was a cricket or some other type of varmint,\" admits Price. \"It was brown in color. It kind of looked like it had wings. And then we discovered it was a roach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to a small opening underneath his bathroom sink, he shows evidence of the intruder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"See that black mark there,\" he says. \"That's what's made by them. Those are their droppings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most unwanted of insects in anyone's home, Price had not received a visit from any ordinary cockroach. This was the American cockroach -- a squeamishly unattractive bug that can grow more than 3 inches long and turn any normal night in front of the TV into Roach Watch. And these guys don't always show up alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've caught a total of seven of them altogether,\" Price says, with a serious look on his face. \"Two, we were humanely responsible for them living. The others went to the happy bug ground in the sky.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why now? What's happening in Price's little corner of Pasadena that sparked his first in-home roach encounter and new exterminator duties?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10703846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10703846\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-800x859.jpg\" alt=\"An American roach caught on sticky paper at a home in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-800x859.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-400x430.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-1440x1547.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-1180x1267.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RoachStickyPaper-960x1031.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American roach caught on sticky paper at a home in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It has to do with the dryness,\" says Carlos Rivera, owner/operator of Ikill Pest Control in Pasadena. \"They're looking for water sources, so they're coming up in the dark and trying to find moist areas to repopulate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right. Our history-making drought strikes again. As California's front lawns brown, dry tree limbs fall on city streets and neighbors scramble to water their yards by the light of the moon during a state-mandated Phase 2 water restriction, these cockroaches are now cruising residential streets for their next meal and a drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could be feeding from crumbs that you drop while you're cooking dinner, from the trashcan or as simple as water leaking from a drainpipe,\" says Rivera. \"But they find a source, and they make a home in your home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says exterminators up and down the state are seeing the largest influx of the bigger roaches that they've seen in decades. And it's keeping them busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All true, according to Dr. Richard Kaae, an entomologist who has been teaching at Cal Poly Pomona for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In California, we have four major roaches,\" says Kaae. \"You have the German roach and the brown-banded roach. Then there's the Oriental cockroach and the American cockroach -- both which are bigger roaches and they're mainly outdoor species.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10703849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10703849\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-1180x783.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/TimPrice-960x637.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Price says this is the first time he's seen American roaches in his home in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Blair Wells/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The American roach is found mostly in water pipes and sewers -- sometimes in numbers that would boggle the mind, says Kaae -- unlike the German cockroach, its smaller but more worrisome buggy brethren, which can infest restaurants, hotels or aging residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In some of the sewers of L.A., they've opened them up and found the American roaches -- almost looked like the walls were moving,\" Kaae says with a wry smile. \"Nobody ever counted them, but you can get big numbers of them if the conditions are right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since the conditions below ground are not right after four years of drought, up come the usually outdoorsy American roaches into the world above, and straight toward homes -- like the Prices'. It's a matter of nature and survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Half of insects eat other insects. Half of them are predators. So with dry conditions, the plant feeders aren't going to have plants and the predators aren't going to have anything to eat,\" Kaae says. \"So it affects everything. Affects the whole ecosystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says not to worry too much about what he calls \"the poor, poor roaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both the Oriental and the American roaches aren't home dwellers. 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Our history-making drought strikes again. As California's front lawns brown, dry tree limbs fall on city streets and neighbors scramble to water their yards by the light of the moon during a state-mandated Phase 2 water restriction, these cockroaches are now cruising residential streets for their next meal and a drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could be feeding from crumbs that you drop while you're cooking dinner, from the trashcan or as simple as water leaking from a drainpipe,\" says Rivera. \"But they find a source, and they make a home in your home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says exterminators up and down the state are seeing the largest influx of the bigger roaches that they've seen in decades. 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