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R.I.P. Kelly Rowe: water board director stood out from the herd

Rowe championed OCWD's wastewater recycling project but lampooned its 'foolish' $1.4 billion ocean desalination project

Jan 26 •

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Coastal Commission 11-0: Poseidon is 'wrong project, in wrong place, at wrong time'

May 23, 2022 • John Earl

MWD pushes bankruptcy with Delta support says former state water analyst

Jun 5, 2023 • John Earl

Scrap outdated and racist water-rights system, says Gov. Newsom's former water manager

Mar 30, 2023 • John Earl

[Revisited] Post-Poseidon: to desalinate or not to desalinate, that is NOT the main question

Jul 23, 2023

7—The Pool of Record

“It will rain again, It will flood again!!”

Published on Watershed • Apr 4

Coop Scoop: The Hour of the Quislings

The Supremes throw up roadblocks to getting Trump into the dock.

Published on The Coop Scoop by Marc Cooper • Feb 29

Invite your friends to read SoCal Water Wars

Thank you for reading SoCal Water Wars — your support allows me to keep doing this work. If you enjoy SoCal Water Wars, it would mean the world to me if…

Jan 15 •

Coop Scoop: Stop Substack from Spreading Nazi Propaganda

An Open Letter from Substackers to its Founders

Published on The Coop Scoop by Marc Cooper • Dec 15, 2023

Gov. Newsom & Sen. Boxer: climate-change posers who lost to grassroots enviros

Corporate money and arrogance aren't always enough to win. The failed Poseidon ocean desalination campaign would prove it.

Dec 12, 2023 •

Groundwater Issues in Minnesota

How a summer drought and an appetite for perfect french fries contribute to water issues

Published on The Water Droplet • Dec 3, 2023

Boxing with Barbara Boxer - California's 'greatest' environmentalist (until 2017)

Her gentry-journalist fans at ringside giggled and her corporate coach mocked me. The Poseidon desal wave seemed like a slowly advancing tsunami

Dec 2, 2023 •

Barbara Boxer made me happy I'm not a gentry journalist

It was a pleasure to help defeat the self-proclaimed greatest environmentalist in California history and the greenwashing machine that paid her

Nov 25, 2023 •

Say no to gentry journalism. Independent journalism full speed ahead

Gentry journalists hobnob with political celebrities. Independent journalists serve independent-thinking readers and need their support

Nov 14, 2023 •

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