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Issue 209.1
Journalism 101 with Melanie Sill
Drought begins to take toll on Californians with new report A recent report withers State estimates of water conservation. Should we be worried yet? Gerardo Amezquita Staff Reporter
can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that California’s drought now threatens, including dramatically less water for our farms and communities and increased eas,” said Governor Brown in his 2014 speech provided on his website. “I’ve declared this emergency and I’m calling all Californians to conserve water in every way possible.”
In a recent report from NASA satellite data, California’s drought However, with the unexpected data provided by NASA, legislators has left a year’s worth of water in and citizens are calling for more substantial regulations. The State Water the remaining reservoirs. Typical- Resources Control Board, the chief entity responsible for water manly the winter, rainy season in the agement, has issued a new set of regulations on top of the already sanctioned rules previously adopted in 2014. but for the past four consecutive years the results have proved to the watering of lawns or any other ‘ornamental landscapes.’ Also, busibe disappointing. nesses are prohibited from serving water unless requested and hotels According to the NASA ex- must offer their guest the choice not to have their towels and linens - washed daily. All these along with the other extended emergency regsure the volume of water needed ministrative Law’s approval. to recover from the drought, the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins seem to be enormously below water volume average characteristically expected of the period. The only solution to the problem lies with an input of 11 trillion gallons of water which is about 1.5 times the amount of ervoir.
program to combat the deterioration of our water resources. The $1 billion venture hopes to accelerate bond funding from previously enacted legislation (Prop. 1) to help out communities seriously affected by the parched climate. The program is made up of components committed to improving the local infrastracture of our watering projects and to pro-
KPCC’s VP of Content sits down with the UT to talk journalism. Angeline Bernabe Staff Reporter
Some say the journalism industry is a dying one. For any aspiring journalist who dreams of becoming successful in journalism someday, it’s a statement
rent state of journalism is nothing close to death.
of Governor Brown’s initiative, “This legislation will deliver relief to
drought of this severity, and it
“There is a narrative out there that journalism is dying,” Sill says some of Pasadena’s winding rail-
storms, and years, to crawl out of it,” says Jay Famiglietti, lead sci- short term problems, and advance longer-term projects are an important part of that effort.” entist in the study. Signaling the current state of The momentous pace of events is leading up to a statewide effort to affairs was Governor Jerry Brown coordinate and protect the remaining water supplies while they last. The with his declaration of a State of Emergency, January of last year. Following the pronouncement the amount of decayed grass in lawns will be part of the new realities was a stronger set of regulations of California. in water usage restrictions and the application of the debated $500 lowing of events, visit ca.gov/drought/. all Californians to aid in the cause by restricting their use of water by 20% for nonessential activities.
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a bustling but relaxed newsroom. She continues, “There is another narrative out there that there aren’t any jobs, which isn’t true. And there’s another narrative out there that journalism is dead, which has never been true.” Although the environment that she continued on page 3