“The State Energy Commission came up with a model that makes no sense at all. But it gives them a way to calculate how big the impact will be, so they can bill you for money.” Siyamak sits down with Dallas Weaver, an agricultural scientist who has been designing and building aquaculture systems since the…

“The legislature has authorized the commission to impose financially devastating penalties with just the barest minimum of due process protections.” In this episode, Siyamak sits down with Jeremy Talcott, attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, to look into one of the reasons that make California unable to build more desalination plants in a quick manner. …

Commentary Zeroing in on “unelected tyrants” in a state as dysfunctional and regressive as California is not easy. There are too many targets. Even California’s elected state legislators, as they cook up and pass countless tyrannical intrusions into our lives and livelihoods, are themselves “elected” only so long as they pledge obeisance to a powerful…

The Australian and South Australian governments have pledged $15 million (US$10.76 million) for a business case to move the Northern Water Supply project forward in an effort to secure South Australia’s water future. According to an SA Government release on Wednesday, a desalination plant to be located in the Upper Spencer Gulf is high up on…

The state of California has been in the throes of a drought for many years. The chairwoman of the Water Resources Control Board stated in 2014 that the California drought was the most serious drought that Californians had faced in modern times. This severely affected farmers and the production of fruits and plants in the…