A water and electric utility in central California will install a first-of-its-kind network of solar panels on water canals. Turlock Irrigation District (TID) has secured a $20 million grant from the state to pursue the first-in-the-nation project, which could serve a beneficial double whammy: create renewable energy and save some water in the process…..
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It won’t fix the serious water use problems or the mounting threat climate change poses to water supply, but it does represent the kind of creative solution countries of great drought need to explore as it stares down a water-scarce future.
