On Water

Wildfires: Did low water pressure hinder the fight?
Los Angeles Times / by Jeff Gottlieb and Tony Barboza

Making mountains out of landfill: Roseville’s Environmental Utilities Department does its part to get expanded polystyrene to those who will re-use it
Roseville Press-Tribune / by Susan Belknap

Lake Mead fares better in new study
Las Vegas Review-Journal / by Amanda Lee Myers

Fate of Trestles, toll road project may soon be known
Los Angeles Times / by Pete Thomas

U.S. biologists: 3 pesticides jeopardize salmon
San Diego Union-Tribune / by Jeff Barnard

Farming with drip irrigation consumes more water
Los Angeles Times / by Bettina Boxall

San Joaquin River restoration legislation shelved
Associated Press

Obama's video message energizes climate conference
Los Angeles Times / by Margot Roosevelt

Editorial: State needs to be ready for warming
Sacramento Bee

Landscape designers apply nature's tricks
San Francisco Chronicle / by Ron Sullivan and Joe Eaton

Irrigation contractors agree to support River Restoration Act
Western Farm Press

A new look at risk revives an old plan
Engineering News Record / by Tom Sawyer, with Jonathan Barnes and Robert Carlsen