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Did ‘Magnum P.I.’ star Tom Selleck steal truckloads of hydrant water? A real P.I. was on case
The vehicle that officials say was used to pilfer water from a Ventura County water district’s fire hydrant was a white water tender truck, not a red Ferrari driven by a mustachioed man in a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and a Hawaiian shirt...
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Farmers vs. fish: Water war heats up with probe into who got millions of dollars. By Lisa Rein
The site of some of the fiercest environmental wars over water in recent years is now the subject of a federal investigation into millions of dollars that whistleblowers say were intended to secure water for drought-stricken fish but flowed instead to farmers and ranchers... -
California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops
California’s epic drought is pushing Big Oil to solve a problem it’s struggled with for decades: what to do with the billions of gallons of wastewater that gush out of wells every year... -
Many of Earth’s biggest aquifers overstressed
People around the world rely on groundwater for drinking and crop irrigation. But a new satellite data study says that many of our biggest aquifers are overstressed.
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