The Dirt on Water Blog

  Cactus are good! It’s time to get serious about cactus. Our drought conditions are likely to continue even with a [...]

  Trees everywhere are dying. Combine the pests that are killing California oaks with the prolonged drought and other [...]

  We’ve all worked hard to reduce our water usage in the garden. I thought I had done just about all I could [...]

  El Nino’s effects on the weather changes can be felt around the world. With or without an El Nino, we have to come [...]

  California is still in a drought and the current guidelines require that all garden hoses have a nozzle attached.  [...]

  Should you have a water feature during the drought? During our extreme heat and drought where every drop of water [...]

El Nino’s effects on the weather changes can be felt around the world. With or without an El Nino, we have to come to [...]

When I wrote this, there were more than 25 fires burning in our state and Gov. Brown declared 15 California [...]

Is Drought Shaming Good? Drought shaming is the new social tool to stop water wasters. Or is it? The very word “shame” [...]

  The drought in the southwest is pushing the Salton Sea—the largest lake in California–closer to death. The [...]

Who’s using up California’s water? Some conservatives say it’s the tree huggers wasting it to save obscure species [...]

The California drought has put our lawns on the hot seat. Government wants the new California landscape to look very [...]

California may be in the middle of a historic drought, but that hasn’t stopped the bottled water companies from [...]

Our state’s population now exceeds 38 million, which is 12 million more than the next most populous state, Texas [...]

I have been getting many questions and here are the most [...]

The California drought is serious. Our state’s mild climate has helped make California one of the top producing [...]

A few months ago, I visited East Porterville, a California town where hundreds of residents have no water—except for the [...]

Avocado groves have long been a staple of my hometown of Fallbrook.  The town even calls itself the Avocado Capital of the [...]

For the most part, both Rainbow Municipal Water District and Fallbrook Public Utility District buy their water from the same [...]

  In Japan, many women are extremely private about their bodily functions. Because of this, they would flush the toilet [...]