A formal state audit will now examine waste, fraud, and abuse at the OCBE. I intend to discuss what this…
Content being a Pink Toad? I guess it depends on an amphibian's level of sef-awareness. The lower, the happier. In…
If we're talking about Dan C, he has never seemed "happy."
Yes, I know that's the impulse but you gotta know what the Guatemalan hill folk know: you get poisoned and…
If it touches me first, all bets are off.
You're absolutely right that California should adopt it statewide -- and should already have done so. And you're absolutely right…
If I were Fiona ma or Rob Bonta I’d be scared.
RCV should be adopted statewide so cities and counties don’t have to do it piecemeal. It saves money, discourages negative…
My advice to Mr. Moore, who seems like an eminently reasonable man is the same as I always give Vern.…
Water Archive
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Metropolitan/Municipal Water District or MAGA Water District? Still No Answers.
Posted on March 23, 2026 | No CommentsJohn Earl still asking questions at our Water Boards. -
Municipal Water District of OC, or MAGA Water District of OC? Good question…
Posted on January 20, 2026 | 3 CommentsWhy does a local water board celebrate the deputy director of ICE?? -
John Earl: “We the People in Order to Form a More Perfect Water District…”
Posted on November 29, 2025 | 1 CommentThe Water-Wars journalist urges us to fight the Goat-Fuhrer Trump starting with our local water boards. -
DEFEATING THE FASCIST BEAST: A California Perspective.
Posted on February 1, 2025 | No CommentsJohn Earl's latest project. Count us in! -
Erin Brockovich praises Yorba Linda’s new Water Treatment Plant.
Posted on September 29, 2024 | 2 CommentsGood job Yorba Linda Water District! -
John Earl: Can San Diego (Carlsbad) get rid of THEIR Poseidon Albatross?
Posted on July 27, 2024 | 2 CommentsThere but for the grace of the Coastal Commission (and decades of activism) goes Orange County. -
RIP Kelly Rowe: a Water Board Director who Stood Out from the Herd.
Posted on January 27, 2024 | 2 CommentsRare honest water board member! -
John Earl on the Spectacular Self-Degradation of “Environmentalist” Barbara Boxer.
Posted on November 26, 2023 | 5 CommentsReal shame, that. -
Getting Hosed pt 3: You Can’t Change the Climate “with Dance, Libation or Prayer.”
Posted on July 24, 2023 | 2 CommentsBack at the roots of our unwise water policies, there was a wise critic - John Wesley Powell. -
Getting Hosed in search of SoCal’s Mythical Garden, pt 2: The Great Thirst.
Posted on July 4, 2023 | No CommentsThe first addition to California's natural water supply portfolio reminds us how it all got started. -
How Ratepayers got hosed in the search for SoCal’s Mythical Gardens. Pt 1: Barbre’s Greed.
Posted on June 30, 2023 | 3 Comments'They're going to have to pry the hose out of my cold dead fingers' - Brett Barbre, MWDOC -
Gavin Newsom’s ‘Culture of Distrust’ revealed by his former Water Conservation Manager.
Posted on May 19, 2023 | 2 CommentsImportant interview by John Earl of SoCal Water Wars! -
Conner Everts: After the Winter’s Magnificent Snowpacks
Posted on April 26, 2023 | 1 Comment... greedy short-sighted water policy makers are likely to do all the wrong things again. -
“No water left to conserve!” and other profiteer myths debunked.
Posted on November 26, 2022 | 17 CommentsJohn Earl writes: Conservation means much more water for much less money if we treat it as a new source and get real about future demand.
So you're gonna write a piece about this audit? Good, folks have been asking us to cover that on this…