These storms have brought significant rain to many dry parts of the state. While it may have lessened the drought conditions, it doesn’t mean it’s entirely gone and the state is still in trouble.
The Board of Supervisors officially added Riverside County to a statewide coalition of interests promulgating steps by the state to expand water infrastructure and take other actions to prevent water shortages during cyclical droughts, including the current one.
The program offers to pay customers $3 per square foot, or on average about $4,500, in funding to replace the grass in their front or back yards with water-efficient plants or artificial turf, according to a statement from the DWA.
The federal government announced Tuesday the Colorado River will operate in a Tier 2 shortage condition for the first time starting in January as the West’s historic drought has taken a severe toll on Lake Mead.
If you lived in the Coachella Valley during the homesteading years, you had to go to where the water was. This made the expansion into the area now known as Palm Desert very difficult, as Steve Sumrall recounts in this edition of Our Desert Past. Thanks to Rochelle McCune and everyone at the Palm Desert Historical Society for their assistance in putting this together.
