It was brought up earlier this year and once again this week. If rain and snowpack levels stay down, water sent to regions in California will be considerably less--as little as 15% of allocations--than usual. "Last spring was the driest since 1921 in the northern Sierra," the LA Times said as well as noting that "reservoirs are starting the rainy season at their lowest levels since 1977." In June, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide......

A possible water supply alert is being considered by Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, who serve 18 million people in the region. Their board will discuss the option next month because places where water is taken is found to be "unusually" dry and for environmental reasons (delta smelt). “A ‘water supply alert’ does not mean less water being supplied; it means that the water being supplied is severely depleting reserves, and that if......

Are you a rice hoarder? Not anymore. Dramatic headlines all throughout the day are saying we are seeing food rationing of rice and some wheat products, a first since World War II. Due to a global shortage, Sam’s Club "is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rices because of global shortages," reports the Orange County Register's Fast Food Maven blog. "Sam’s Club is not restricting purchases of flour or oil... The decision......