Water Wise Summer Gardening
By Michele E. Buttelman The drought is back and new water restrictions threaten to put the “heat” on your summer garden. How can you help your garden thrive despite nature’s…
By Michele E. Buttelman The drought is back and new water restrictions threaten to put the “heat” on your summer garden. How can you help your garden thrive despite nature’s…
As California experiences exceptionally dry conditions for a third consecutive year, Santa Clarita Valley Water said the SCV is prepared for a potential drought. “(SCV Water) and this community on the whole has done a really exceptional job of preparing itself…
“For most of the history of our species, we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits…
Santa Clarita Valley ratepayers who were commended by water officials for their diligence in conserving water are beginning to use as much water as they did before the latest drought.…
A month of below-normal rainfall brought abnormally dry conditions and moderate drought conditions back to Southern California, and the Santa Clarita Valley, this December. A recent report from the National…
News release issued by the California Department of Water Resources SACRAMENTO – After five years of drought, the 2017 water year brought unexpectedly heavy precipitation, ranking second…
Friday, April 7 4:30 p.m. Following one of the wettest rainy seasons on record, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Friday officially ending the drought emergency for most of…
The A2 fixture “Most talked about” in Thursday’s Signal offers reader comments on the story “Drought not over in SCV,” along with the A5 story “Skyline Ranch project construction to…
Despite an article I just read that the drought is still not over, it certainly must be here in SCV. According to our local water officials, there is plenty of…
While the rest of California remains awash in post-drought news - reporting above average rainfall and a healthy normal snow pack in the Sierra Nevadas - the northwest part of…
With an unprecedented amount of rainfall dumped on the Santa Clarita Valley this year it’s no wonder the lineup of people wanting to replace their lawns as a way of…
Despite all the rain dumped on the Santa Clarita Valley these past two months, the drought persists according to state officials and, since it does they say, water conservation habits…
A series of winter storms increased snowpack in the Sierra Nevada—a key source of drinking water for Southern California—to the highest levels since 1995, according to latest reports. Statewide, snowpack…
A recent report released by the United States Drought Monitor reveals that nearly half of California is no longer in drought conditions. The news is an improvement from one year…
Nearly 35 percent of California is completely free of drought or dry conditions, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor. In just one week, drought conditions significantly…
A rainstorm that moved through Southern California Friday evening and early Saturday morning brought some relief to Los Angeles’ drought-plagued county. The National Weather Service (NWS) recorded a variety of…
Having emerged from at least four years of drought, one in every four Santa Clarita Valley residents has changed their landscaping ways In a recent study undertaken by the Castaic…