Water Weekly 3: Pesky, Pesky, Pesky Water News
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleEndless Studies and Bloodthirsty Sharks
Our new water Weekly 3 is out – and can be read here. As faithful readers have come to expect, it’s full of the latest water news … but this time with a bit more bite than usual. Check out this...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Mixed Messages
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Godzilla vs. Moonbeam!
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Big Water News – In Song!
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Back to School
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Truncated – The Weekly Two
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleAre Water Agencies About to Drown in Positive Polling?
A recent survey conducted by the Municipal Water District of Orange County found that 93 percent of the 500 respondents feel Orange County’s water supply is somewhat reliable or very reliable. That’s...
View ArticleOur Crumbling Water Infrastructure
The American Society of Civil Engineers didn’t have much good to say about California’s water infrastructure in its recent report card on all the state’s civil infrastructure. Here it is, from an...
View ArticleCrazifornia: Three Crappy Regulatory Battles
Here’s Laer’s latest column on California’s crazy regulatory environment, which is cross-posted at CalWatchdog. For a lot of very good reasons, California’s environmental regulators have earned a...
View ArticleThe Wizard of WISG?
I had the honor recently of becoming a two-time guest moderator at a Water Interest Study Group (WISG) put on by Mesa Water District for its customers. I don’t know if two sessions as moderator...
View Article2014 Budget: Water Funding
Even with a drought declaration looming, water didn’t make the three-paragraph cover letter to the 2014-2015 California budget (education, health care and prisons did). Still, it garnered a mention in...
View ArticleMedia’s Failure to Report on Water – Good or Bad?
Even in our dry, drought-prone realm, you’d be hard pressed to find any newspaper with a reporter assigned solely to the water beat. That’s not a guess. Kate Galbraith, a San Francisco-based...
View ArticleMessaging That Isn’t All Wet
The long-awaited and often-delayed California water bond is one of the primary agenda items during the brief mid-summer legislative session in Sacramento. Before August 31, two-thirds of the...
View ArticleOne City’s Drought Communications “Fail”
I just watched a city council adopt a communication campaign that will do a lousy job of informing residents of the new water restrictions and fines it had just adopted in response to state mandates....
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Back to School
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleWater Weekly 3: Truncated – The Weekly Two
What were the three biggest California water stories of the past seven days? Well, the news-heads and policy wonks here at Laer Pearce & Associates have compiled them for you here. You’ll find...
View ArticleAre Water Agencies About to Drown in Positive Polling?
A recent survey conducted by the Municipal Water District of Orange County found that 93 percent of the 500 respondents feel Orange County’s water supply is somewhat reliable or very reliable. That’s...
View ArticleOur Crumbling Water Infrastructure
The American Society of Civil Engineers didn’t have much good to say about California’s water infrastructure in its recent report card on all the state’s civil infrastructure. Here it is, from an...
View ArticleCrazifornia: Three Crappy Regulatory Battles
Here’s Laer’s latest column on California’s crazy regulatory environment, which is cross-posted at CalWatchdog. For a lot of very good reasons, California’s environmental regulators have earned a...
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