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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14071\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/RS7677_IMG_5083-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14071\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/RS7677_IMG_5083-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Low water levels at Shasta Lake this year (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low water levels in the reservoir behind Shasta Dam in November. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This weekend’s heavy rainfall was a welcome sight, but it wasn’t enough to end California’s record drought. State officials are still facing tough choices about how to make the low water supply last through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with little water in streams and rivers, declining water quality could be an even bigger challenge, potentially raising problems for drinking water and causing harmful algal blooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials made their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/31/state-water-project-deliveries-canceled-because-of-drought\">first major water quality decision\u003c/a> at the end of January, ordering that reservoir operators in Northern California limit water releases from dams. About 144,000 acre-feet of water will be held back this month, water that’s normally required to flow into rivers and the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/what-is-california%E2%80%99s-delta/\">Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freshwater will be used later in the year to keep seawater away from drinking water intakes. The Delta is where freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from San Francisco Bay. When there isn’t enough freshwater pushing against the Bay’s tides, saltwater creeps into the Delta, where canals and aqueducts draw water that supplies 25 million Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Failing to take this action could result in our reservoirs running out of water later in the year, which means no available water to prevent saltwater intrusion in the Delta,” said Mark Cowin of the Department of Water Resources. “That would result in ruined water supplies both in the Delta and south of the Delta and major environmental impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges for Water Districts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even beyond saltwater intruding, water quality in the Delta is likely to suffer due to salty agricultural runoff, which is concentrated as the slow-moving water evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Joaquin River at this point is primarily agricultural drainage and wastewater treatment effluent,” explained William Fleenor of UC Davis’s Center for Watershed Sciences. “Those concentrations will be in the Delta and we won’t be flushing them out as fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water districts that rely on the Delta for drinking water say it’s a cause for concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re watching salinity levels very closely,” said Jennifer Allen, spokesperson for the Contra Costa Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14067\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/salinity.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14067\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/salinity.jpg\" alt=\"Seawater (in red) pushes into the Delta when the inflow from rivers is low. 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The district withdraws that water through the Contra Costa Canal, which taps into the Delta not far from the saltwater-freshwater mixing zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1976-77 drought, salt levels in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/wqDamHistory.asp\">their water exceeded public health limits\u003c/a>, prompting water rationing orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since built the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/\">Los Vaqueros Reservoir\u003c/a>, which stores higher quality water from the wet months that can be blended with lower quality water coming from the Delta in dry months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something the district normally does, but “what’s different this year is that we’ve notice the salt levels rising earlier than normal,” said Allen. Los Vaqueros Reservoir is in relatively good shape this year, holding 79 percent of its storage capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor water quality could also reach massive pumps in the South Delta that feed water to the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California. That includes Santa Clara County and East Bay cities like Fremont and Livermore. But officials have announced that very little water will be delivered through that system, simply because of the dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water treatment plants are built to handle salt, as well as other contaminants like bromide and organic carbon, but poor water quality raises their operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll cost them more to treat,” said Fleenor. “It’s quite expensive to remove chloride”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water quality problems are only expected to get worse with sea level rise, which would push saltwater farther into the Delta. A UC Davis study found that \u003ca href=\"http://retrocee.engr.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lund/papers/Chen2010.pdf\">water treatment costs could more than double\u003c/a> with a one-foot rise in sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Effects on Agriculture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”6dfc1a71e88f65ca185ee886de193e28″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers and residents living in the Delta itself also have an eye on their water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned about the water quality,” said Mike Robinson of Robinson Farms Feed Company, which grows alfalfa and hay on Roberts Island in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes a question later on in the year whether you want to irrigate or not, because high salt content will hurt, damage or kill some crops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson says they’re already seeing saltier water than they normally do. “We’d just stop irrigating at some point if we have to,” he says. “I hope the storms put a lot of snow in the mountains cause that’s our only chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say keeping water in upstream reservoirs now will allow them to flush it into the Delta later in the year, meeting water quality standards. Those standards are lowered in years that are critically dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the standards will be met,” said Tom Howard, director of the State Water Resources Control Board. “That’s the intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harmful Algae Blooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some water quality problems may not be avoidable. Lower water levels usually mean the water is warmer, which encourages harmful blue-green algae called \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/ssr/microcystis.cfm\">Microcystis\u003c/a>. The algae blooms, first noticed in the Delta around 2000, produce a liver toxin that affects people, fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14063\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/microcystis.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/microcystis.jpg\" alt=\"A toxic blue-green algae bloom (Peggy Lehman, Department of Water Resources)\" width=\"294\" height=\"260\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A toxic blue-green algae bloom (Peggy Lehman, Department of Water Resources)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We expect to see very large blooms if the low flows continue to occur,” said Peggy Lehman, a scientist with the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It grows in warm conditions and we already have high nutrients in the water that facilitate it,” Lehman said. “It sits on the surface and it looks a bit like green cornflakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blooms normally begin in June or July, but could be seen earlier this year. 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(Resource Management Associates, cited in Delta Plan)\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seawater (in red) from San Francisco Bay pushes into the Delta when freshwater from rivers is low (blue). (Resource Management Associates, cited in Delta Plan)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/\">Contra Costa Water Distric\u003c/a>t gets 100 percent of its supply from the Delta and serves 500,000 people in Antioch, Concord, Martinez and Pittsburg. The district withdraws that water through the Contra Costa Canal, which taps into the Delta not far from the saltwater-freshwater mixing zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 1976-77 drought, salt levels in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/wqDamHistory.asp\">their water exceeded public health limits\u003c/a>, prompting water rationing orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since built the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/\">Los Vaqueros Reservoir\u003c/a>, which stores higher quality water from the wet months that can be blended with lower quality water coming from the Delta in dry months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s something the district normally does, but “what’s different this year is that we’ve notice the salt levels rising earlier than normal,” said Allen. Los Vaqueros Reservoir is in relatively good shape this year, holding 79 percent of its storage capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poor water quality could also reach massive pumps in the South Delta that feed water to the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California. That includes Santa Clara County and East Bay cities like Fremont and Livermore. But officials have announced that very little water will be delivered through that system, simply because of the dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water treatment plants are built to handle salt, as well as other contaminants like bromide and organic carbon, but poor water quality raises their operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll cost them more to treat,” said Fleenor. “It’s quite expensive to remove chloride”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water quality problems are only expected to get worse with sea level rise, which would push saltwater farther into the Delta. A UC Davis study found that \u003ca href=\"http://retrocee.engr.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lund/papers/Chen2010.pdf\">water treatment costs could more than double\u003c/a> with a one-foot rise in sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Effects on Agriculture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers and residents living in the Delta itself also have an eye on their water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re concerned about the water quality,” said Mike Robinson of Robinson Farms Feed Company, which grows alfalfa and hay on Roberts Island in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes a question later on in the year whether you want to irrigate or not, because high salt content will hurt, damage or kill some crops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson says they’re already seeing saltier water than they normally do. “We’d just stop irrigating at some point if we have to,” he says. “I hope the storms put a lot of snow in the mountains cause that’s our only chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say keeping water in upstream reservoirs now will allow them to flush it into the Delta later in the year, meeting water quality standards. Those standards are lowered in years that are critically dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly the standards will be met,” said Tom Howard, director of the State Water Resources Control Board. “That’s the intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harmful Algae Blooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some water quality problems may not be avoidable. Lower water levels usually mean the water is warmer, which encourages harmful blue-green algae called \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/ssr/microcystis.cfm\">Microcystis\u003c/a>. The algae blooms, first noticed in the Delta around 2000, produce a liver toxin that affects people, fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14063\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 294px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/microcystis.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14063\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/microcystis.jpg\" alt=\"A toxic blue-green algae bloom (Peggy Lehman, Department of Water Resources)\" width=\"294\" height=\"260\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A toxic blue-green algae bloom (Peggy Lehman, Department of Water Resources)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We expect to see very large blooms if the low flows continue to occur,” said Peggy Lehman, a scientist with the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It grows in warm conditions and we already have high nutrients in the water that facilitate it,” Lehman said. “It sits on the surface and it looks a bit like green cornflakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blooms normally begin in June or July, but could be seen earlier this year. Harmful effects have been in seen in Delta fish that play a key role in the ecosystem, like threadfin shad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are health affects to people that use Delta water, so we’re watching that very closely,” said Lehman. “If people see it in the water column, they don’t want to swim there and want to make sure they aren’t drinking it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467299859.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125857\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467299859-640x419.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian on San Francisco's Embarcadero during Bay Area's first major storm of 2014. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrian on San Francisco's Embarcadero during Bay Area's first major storm of 2014. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>((Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone who dares discuss our weather, climate or California's drought seems to take it as a moral duty to remind everyone that, despite anything you might have seen or heard during the storm of the past few days, we've still got a major water problem on our hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Miller, an editor in our KQED Science unit, talked about the storm's impact with Jeff Mount, co-founder of the Center for Watershed Studies at UC Davis. The question, as Craig put it, was: \"So, was this a 'February Miracle?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the answer, according to Mount, is, \"Not even close.\" He pointed to the fact that the rich plume of tropical moisture that brought heavy rain to Northern California (also known as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/atmrivers/\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/pineapple-express-bringing-significant-rains-to-droughtstricken-calif\" target=\"_blank\">Pineapple Express\u003c/a>) had a relatively narrow impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We would like to have the next series of storms directed our way, if you can manage that.'\u003ccite>Marty Grimes,\u003cbr>\nSanta Clara Valley Water District\u003c/cite> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This atmospheric river kind of sat in one spot and hosed one part of the state,\" Mount said. \"We're in a statewide drought, and so this did basically nothing to relieve anything basically south of Sacramento.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moisture was focused on the North Bay, across the lower part of the Sacramento Valley and into the American River watershed. The storm dumped heavy rain and snow on the Sierra, and that triggered massive flows in the American and its tributaries and has led to a rapid rise in \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=FOL\" target=\"_blank\">Folsom Lake\u003c/a>. As of Monday evening, the lake has risen nearly 20 feet since last Wednesday, while storage has increased by 50 percent, from 162,000 to 243,000 acre-feet. Still, Folsom is at just 25 percent of capacity and less than half its average level for early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the main storage facility for the State Water Project and the state's second-biggest reservoir, has seen an increase of 70,000 acre-feet in the last few days. It's still far below normal levels. The state's other major reservoirs saw less impressive gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guarded optimism and outright dejection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how you see the last few days depends largely on where you happen to be. Reactions from water agency officials Monday ranged from guarded optimism north of San Francisco Bay, where some areas got a deluge, to outright dejection in the South Bay — an area that was merely brushed by the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting single statistic from the weekend's rain: the 23.51 inches that fell on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday night. That's a mind-boggling total, and more so when you compare it to the amount of precipitation that falls in nearby locations like San Francisco, where the average \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> rainfall is just under 21 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That big rain total hints at how Mount Tam is different from the surrounding lowlands. With the right set of conditions, the half-mile-high mountain acts like a sail, catching rain-bearing storm winds coming in from the Pacific. And when those winds are loaded with water, as they were this weekend, lots and lots of rain can fall. That combination of factors makes Mount Tam the key to Marin County's year-round water supply. The Marin Municipal Water District's seven reservoirs all depend on streams that originate on the mountain's slopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last week, Mount Tam was about as dry as everywhere else in the Bay Area. In January, the mountain's Middle Peak weather station recorded .06 of an inch of precipitation — the same amount of non-rain that fell on downtown San Francisco for the month. The prolonged dry spell, dating back to the beginning of January 2013, meant the Marin district's reservoirs have been dwindling at precisely the time of year they should be rising to brim-full. The district reported last week reservoir levels were down to 53 percent of capacity and 66 percent of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby Pischel, public information officer for the MMWD, said 14.76 inches of rain fell at Lake Lagunitas on Mount Tam's north flank. As a result, reservoirs had climbed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">64 percent of capacity\u003c/a> on Monday, with runoff still flowing into the district's lakes. That's 76 percent of the normal level for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has requested a 25 percent voluntary cut in water use from customers, and Pischel says the storm doesn't change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though this was a very significant storm and gave us a very significant amount of rain, we do need to be cautious,\" Pischel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that MMWD customers who haven't already shut off their landscape irrigation systems ought to do so now. \"With this rain, you don't need to irrigate,\" Pischel said. \"Since that's the No. 1 use of water, that will save a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A little relief for Willits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm also dumped heavy rain on Willits, a Mendocino County town of 5,000 that's one of 17 communities in the state with critically low water supplies. The city has imposed 35 percent mandatory consumption cuts on all water customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Moore, the Willits city manager, said the town got 6.61 inches of rain since last Wednesday. That increased the city's water supply, she said, but the town's reservoirs are still at just 25 to 30 percent of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was helpful, but it has not at all pulled us out of a drought yet,\" Moore said. \"We would need to have several similar storms like that to consider the drought a non-issue.\" She compared the 250 acre feet in water that flowed into Willits' reservoirs to \"pouring a cup of coffee into a 5-gallon bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cautious as water managers sound north of the Golden Gate, at least they saw some meaningful improvement in water supplies over the weekend. That's not the case for the South Bay's biggest water agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the rain gauges to move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the rain stayed well to the north of the valley and its reservoirs, and district spokesman Marty Grimes summarized the impact this way: \"Last Thursday, our local reservoir storage was 31.6 percent, and today it's 31.7 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grimes came across as so disappointed by those numbers that I asked, \"Are you as bummed out as you sound?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughed. \"I was looking at the rain gauges and reservoir gauges all weekend long, and I was waiting to see them respond,\" he said. \"And I was looking at that Doppler radar map with those nice red and orange waves (signifying heavy rain) going across the North Bay, and it just made me more and more dejected to see we weren't getting any in the South Bay, or very little.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara Valley district has asked users for a 10 percent voluntary cutback in water consumption. With the district heavily dependent on water supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that will be severely curtailed this year, he urged customers to consider steps like planting drought-tolerant plants. He also had a request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like to have the next series of storms directed our way, if you can manage that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it will be a wait for that next storm. The National Weather Service expects rain to stay well to the north of the central Bay Area for the rest of the week, with a slight chance of rain as far south as San Jose over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the main storage facility for the State Water Project and the state's second-biggest reservoir, has seen an increase of 70,000 acre-feet in the last few days. It's still far below normal levels. The state's other major reservoirs saw less impressive gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guarded optimism and outright dejection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how you see the last few days depends largely on where you happen to be. Reactions from water agency officials Monday ranged from guarded optimism north of San Francisco Bay, where some areas got a deluge, to outright dejection in the South Bay — an area that was merely brushed by the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting single statistic from the weekend's rain: the 23.51 inches that fell on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday night. That's a mind-boggling total, and more so when you compare it to the amount of precipitation that falls in nearby locations like San Francisco, where the average \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> rainfall is just under 21 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That big rain total hints at how Mount Tam is different from the surrounding lowlands. With the right set of conditions, the half-mile-high mountain acts like a sail, catching rain-bearing storm winds coming in from the Pacific. And when those winds are loaded with water, as they were this weekend, lots and lots of rain can fall. That combination of factors makes Mount Tam the key to Marin County's year-round water supply. The Marin Municipal Water District's seven reservoirs all depend on streams that originate on the mountain's slopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last week, Mount Tam was about as dry as everywhere else in the Bay Area. In January, the mountain's Middle Peak weather station recorded .06 of an inch of precipitation — the same amount of non-rain that fell on downtown San Francisco for the month. The prolonged dry spell, dating back to the beginning of January 2013, meant the Marin district's reservoirs have been dwindling at precisely the time of year they should be rising to brim-full. The district reported last week reservoir levels were down to 53 percent of capacity and 66 percent of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby Pischel, public information officer for the MMWD, said 14.76 inches of rain fell at Lake Lagunitas on Mount Tam's north flank. As a result, reservoirs had climbed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">64 percent of capacity\u003c/a> on Monday, with runoff still flowing into the district's lakes. That's 76 percent of the normal level for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has requested a 25 percent voluntary cut in water use from customers, and Pischel says the storm doesn't change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though this was a very significant storm and gave us a very significant amount of rain, we do need to be cautious,\" Pischel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that MMWD customers who haven't already shut off their landscape irrigation systems ought to do so now. \"With this rain, you don't need to irrigate,\" Pischel said. \"Since that's the No. 1 use of water, that will save a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A little relief for Willits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm also dumped heavy rain on Willits, a Mendocino County town of 5,000 that's one of 17 communities in the state with critically low water supplies. The city has imposed 35 percent mandatory consumption cuts on all water customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Moore, the Willits city manager, said the town got 6.61 inches of rain since last Wednesday. That increased the city's water supply, she said, but the town's reservoirs are still at just 25 to 30 percent of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was helpful, but it has not at all pulled us out of a drought yet,\" Moore said. \"We would need to have several similar storms like that to consider the drought a non-issue.\" She compared the 250 acre feet in water that flowed into Willits' reservoirs to \"pouring a cup of coffee into a 5-gallon bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cautious as water managers sound north of the Golden Gate, at least they saw some meaningful improvement in water supplies over the weekend. 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In fact, the region may be in a position to help other water-starved parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”9be5708c07ca6373412a0216a70bd208″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main supplier of water for 26 Southland cities—from Los Angeles to the Inland Empire—is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mwdh2o.com/index.htm\">Metropolitan Water District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We supply water to 19-million residents of Southern California, basically one out of every two Californians,” says MWD director Jeff Kightlinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2009, the agency has invested $3 billion in water storage and recycling projects. 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And right now, there aren’t many more sources of water the MWD could share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This situation is so severe we don’t even have supplies up in Northern California that we could exchange,” says Kightlinger. “That situation could change. We will look at all available tools to work with the rest of the state in response to this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’ve had 30 year droughts in Southern California so that’s kind of the benchmark we should be shooting for.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Working collaboratively on a drought response is a message Governor Jerry Brown stressed at a meeting with water officials in L.A. last week, along with doling out some tried-and-true practical advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t flush more than you have to, don’t shower longer than you need to and turn the water off when you’re shaving or brushing your teeth,” the Governor said. “Every day this drought goes on we’re going to have to tighten the screws on what people are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is also touting his administration’s five-year State Water Action Plan. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/LowerYuba_640x360.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13659\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13659 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/LowerYuba_640x360.jpg\" alt=\"A restored view of the Lower Yuba river in the Sacramento Valley by Mona Carron.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An imagined restoration of the Lower Yuba river in the Sacramento Valley by artist Mona Caron\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"Karl Cronin\" href=\"http://karlcronin.com/\">Karl Cronin\u003c/a>, an angular young man with hair like marsh grass, walked onto the stage, pushed up his sleeves, and began sculpting the air to a soundtrack of birds, wind, and water. Then, joined by \u003ca title=\"Americana Orchestra\" href=\"http://americanaorchestra.com/\">three violins and a cello\u003c/a>, he transformed us all into water molecules. We kept company in a reservoir, evaporated into rain, and became groundwater:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>how we sank\u003cbr>\nhow we fell\u003cbr>\nhow we learned of the mineral\u003cbr>\nhow we learned of the root\u003cbr>\nthe Willow, the Poplar, the Dogwood\u003cbr>\nthe fecund beauty of this boundless decay\u003cbr>\nthe great yield of soil\u003cbr>\ngiven life by our motion\u003cbr>\nthrough the pores of breathing stones\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13663\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/watershedmap-4sections-callouts.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13663\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13663 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/watershedmap-4sections-callouts.jpg\" alt=\"The San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed, from epa.gov\" width=\"269\" height=\"297\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed, which contains numerous sub-watersheds. Credit: epa.gov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This striking performance opened the fourth Bay Area Art and Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Session (\u003ca title=\"BAASICS.4 Watershed\" href=\"http://www.baasics.com/category/events/\">BAASICS.4\u003c/a>) at ODC Theater in San Francisco on January 18th. It was an evening of presentations by artists and scientists—many of whom blur the distinction—about the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watersheds are a type of geographic organization—but that makes them sound so (if you’ll forgive the expression) \u003cem>dry\u003c/em>. They are tapestries of interwoven lives—that’s better. All life depends on water, and all water flows to the sea. A watershed contains all the land whose rainfall eventually joins the ocean at a single outlet: for example, under the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Delta watershed (so named because the waters of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River pool in an inland delta before flowing out to the Bay) is \u003cem>enormous\u003c/em>. It stretches from Oregon to Bakersfield. It has also been \u003cem>enormously\u003c/em> altered, from the days of industrial gold mining to the re-engineering of the Central Valley for large-scale agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many other Bay Area residents, I enjoy reservoir water, Central Valley crops, and hydroelectric power. But we also all suffer from \u003ca title=\"EPA Challenges to SF Bay Delta Watershed\" href=\"http://www2.epa.gov/sfbay-delta/what-are-challenges\">unintended consequences\u003c/a>: groundwater pollution, loss of waterbirds and salmon, increased susceptibility to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13699\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/englebright_composite-1024x384.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13699\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13699 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/englebright_composite-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Englebright Dam, on the left, and a drawing what the area could look like without it, by Mona Carron\" width=\"614\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Englebright Dam, on the left, and what the area could look like without it by Mona Caron.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Volunteer, non-profit and government efforts have done a great deal to restore the watershed, and they aim to do more. But according to Derek Hitchcock, an ecologist with \u003ca title=\"The Watershed Project\" href=\"http://www.thewatershedproject.org/home.php\">The Watershed Project\u003c/a>, “Cultural healing is needed before watershed healing.” Having worked extensively with indigenous tribes, whose very language “evolved out of the place itself,” Hitchcock sees a need for the non-indigenous people of the Bay Area to plant their roots more deeply, to really inhabit the land and engage in “genuine long-term stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13664\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 261px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/GaryHedden-water-image_2-13-12-261x162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13664\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13664 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/GaryHedden-water-image_2-13-12-261x162.jpg\" alt=\"Thicket by Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien, photo by Gary Hedden\" width=\"261\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thicket by Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien, photo by Gary Hedden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art can fuel such a cultural shift. Cronin’s work, for example, turns intellectual concepts into intimate connections, awakening in us a love and a reverence for the water we all share. And the work of \u003ca title=\"Watershed Sculpture\" href=\"http://watershedsculpture.com/\">watershed sculptors\u003c/a> Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien actively restores the environment. Their installation “\u003ca title=\"Thicket Video\" href=\"http://vimeo.com/85013719\">Thicket\u003c/a>,” an elaborate weaving of live native willow, is currently healing Adobe Creek in Los Altos’ \u003ca title=\"Redwood Grove Nature Preserve\" href=\"http://www.losaltosca.gov/recreation/page/redwood-grove-nature-preserve\">Redwood Grove Nature Preserve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creek bed is dry right now, so you can walk over the gravel-strewn floodplain and touch the green branches that whip out enthusiastically, bearing the first buds of spring. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/01/20140203science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>For most people, tossing cans and bottles into the recycling bin marks the last time they’ll ever think about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many others – including a San Jose program for high-school drop-outs – that trip to the recycling bin is just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13799 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/CC-Jocelyn-Serna-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jocelyn Serna, 18, graduated from the San Jose Conservation Corps Charter School on January 24th, the first in her family to receive a high school diploma. (Francesca Segre/KQED)\" width=\"291\" height=\"387\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn Serna, 18, graduated from the San Jose Conservation Corps Charter School on January 24th. (Francesca Segre/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjcccharterschool.org/\">San Jose Conservation Corps Charter School\u003c/a> held its winter graduation at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn Serna, 18, became the first person in her family to receive a high school diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything I’m doing, everything is for the high school she’s finishing today,” said her mother, Michel Sanchez. “I’m happy. Very, very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Hennessey, a former Catholic priest, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_5gwRaj7Q&feature=youtu.be\">founded the charter school program\u003c/a> in 1987. 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For example, a recycling company will pick up bottles and cans at the curbside, funding its operations through the CRV value, plus whatever the material is worth on the scrap market.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I think most folks assume that the CRV program covers all beverages. They’re surprised when they find out that wine and liquor are exempt.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In many cities, scavengers beat them to it, digging cans and bottles out of recycling bins in order to collect the CRV deposit, although this practice is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if no one collects that nickel (maybe because the bottle goes into the landfill, or breaks) it goes into a giant pot of nickels and dimes overseen by the state, amounting to $1.1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money funds recycling outreach, community grants and \u003ca href=\"http://www.californialocalconservationcorps.org/\">local Conservation Corps\u003c/a>, including the one in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottle bill was what started the local Corps,” said Bob Hennessey. “Fourteen of us [local Conservation Corps] depend on the bottle bill as base funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s fund is running out of money. Recycling rates are high these days, largely because in a tough economy, more people want their nickels back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This crisis has led the state to pursue several changes to the recycling program. Most of these changes will be imperceptible to the average consumer, but they hit California’s poorer citizens much harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2014-15/pdf/BudgetSummary/EnvironmentalProtection.pdf\">next year’s budget\u003c/a>, Governor Brown proposes to stop funding the local Conservation Corps out of the bottle fund. According to the plan, groups like Hennessey’s would draw from alternate streams, such as the state’s electronic-waste recycling program, or used-oil programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hennessey fears the new funding streams won’t materialize, or will be insufficient to cover the $6 million his organization depends on annually to run its charter school, vocational training and other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, two new laws target recycling fraud. One takes aim at recycling importers, who bring in bottles and cans from out of state in order to take advantage of California’s relatively generous CRV program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another addresses a practice known as “comingling,” in which recycling centers are permitted to reimburse customers by weight, rather than counting each CRV container separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comingling saves time, but over-compensates recyclers by reimbursing them for containers that are not included in the CRV program, such as liquor or milk bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Murray, head of the Sacramento-based non-profit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawrecycles.org/\">Californians Against Waste\u003c/a>, said some of these changes are necessary to address the shortfall in the state’s recycling fund and make the program more efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another change he’d like to see as well, one that would simplify the recycling process, raise recycling rates and help the state’s bottom line: adding wine and liquor bottles to the beverage container recycling law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13791\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13791\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/bottles.jpg\" alt=\"In California, beer bottles do carry a deposit, but liquor and wine bottles don't. 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Broken glass is much harder to recycle than intact bottles, and often ends up in landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding a deposit, said Murray, would give recyclers an incentive to do a better job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And any uncollected deposits would plump up the state fund by $20 million or more a year, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can both close a funding shortfall and double the recycling rate by adding these currently exempt containers to the recycling program,” Murray said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Shmelzer is a director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wineinstitute.org/\">Wine Institute\u003c/a>, which represents California wine makers. 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