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Drought 2022

March 9, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

March 9, 2022, Petaluma CA I just searched this blog for the word DROUGHT and found all the entries dated from 2020. I decided to start this journal due to the household conversations we’ve had on how we are going to ration our irrigation water this year. Water is due to become even more expensive … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: California, Drip Irrigation, drought, Eel River, irrigation, La Niña, Lake Sonoma, Petaluma, Rain, Russian River, Sierra Nevada, Sonoma County, toilet, Water, Water Rationing, water year

ICE investigators used a private utility database covering millions to pursue immigration violations

March 4, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Washington Post – Feb. 26, 2021 Government agencies increasingly are accessing private information they are not authorized to compile on their own By Drew Harwell Feb. 26, 2021 at 1:55 p.m. PST U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have tapped a private database containing hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity and other … [Read more…]

Posted in: Future of Work, Politics, Racism, Slavery, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: CLEAR, credit reports, criminal histories, database, electricity, employment, EQUIFAX, Housing, ICE, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, phone, Thomson Reuters, utility records, vehicle registrations, Water

Letters to the Editor – Press Democrat

July 22, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From July 20, 2019:

Posted in: Faits Divers, Finanace, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: drought, Earthquake, Sonoma County, Sonoma County grand jury, Water

Immense Operations.

October 22, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Immense Operations.— During this season it has become fashionable for the miners instead of going to spots where the water is, or waiting for it to come, to bring it to rich localities where it is needed. Many heavy operations in turning the beds of streams, have recently been entered into and carried successfully through. … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive Tagged: American River, Auburn, Bear River, Deer Creek, Hangtown, Nevada Journal, Rock Creek, rough and ready, South Yuba, Water

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