Archive - SoCal Water Wars

7—The Pool of Record

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

Published on Watershed • Apr 4

February 2024

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

January 2024

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 •

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 •

December 2023

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 •

November 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 •

September 2023

Crackpot water doctrine guides California's latest desal strategy update

Fairytale water war between the guardians of abundance and the lords of scarcity lurks behind the State's latest desalination report-News Streams #2

Sep 21, 2023 •

News Streams: Daily news of SoCal Water Wars in 500 words or less #1

Cali's Human Right to Water Law after 10 years. 'Whose interests are we going to defend,' asks water-rights advocate Max Gomberg. News Streams #1)

Sep 19, 2023 •

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