California's Exceptional Drought's Impact on Our Industry
On March 17, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted an expanded emergency conservation regulation to safeguard the state’s remaining water supplies as California enters a fourth consecutive dry year. Last week the State approved more emergency water use restrictions. We asked Joann Roth-Oseary, Arjen Bosma and Bob Amano:
How does this affect our industry?
How can we be more water-wise?
We checked with Ritz-Carlton San Francisco and the L.A. Convention Center:
Professor David Sedlak assures us: there is hope for the future!
The Status Report - How bad is it really?
It's bad - historical record breaking bad! The American Geophysical Union, studying tree rings, determined that "the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, managed by the State Park system, complies with mandatory...