ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Southern California is under a new drought emergency announced this week. Local waters officials are encouraging conservation but say our local water supply is stable. Then, natural gas bills will see a sharp increase.
S2: Well , it's really the diversification of water supplies , along with improving our efficiency that have prepared us to face drought.
S2: Back in the early 1990s , we were facing significant water cutbacks. So we began to prepare for future droughts. And we've done that in a number of ways that have really prepared us to get through situations like this where there are supply shortages in some areas , but not necessarily all areas.S2: If you go back in time to around 1990 , 1991 , we got our water from two sources. It was from Metropolitan Water District and surface water supplies.
S2: And what we're doing now , if member if Metropolitan were to go to allocations in the future , they've mentioned if we don't have rain this winter but can use continues to be dry , we may end up going to allocations that would be metropolitan. What that means to us is that part of that metropolitan supply is cut. In this case , that's where we would look to our carryover storage and continued water use , efficiency and conservation to get us through that period.
S4: And natural gas prices are causing these kinds of increases all across the country , not just in San Diego. S4: Exactly. An extra blanket or two and layers may go a long way. I've been speaking with KPBS environmental reporter Erik Anderson. Erik , thanks for talking with us.S4: You're listening to KPBS midday edition. I'm Jade Hindman with Margie Perez. Study after study shows an alarming increase in hate crimes and racist incidents in California , targeting a variety of groups , including Jews.
S3: And I imagine if we had spoken three , four or five years ago , yes , security at sites of Jewish life would still be an issue , but nothing like it is now. S2: I found that actually a job as a living many as an old pair first in San Diego. And I liked it so much that I decided to come back with a student visa to study civil engineering. But as I was so I think I did two years of college here in San Diego , and it became really hard financially to pay for tuition. So I started helping students who were not in San Diego yet , especially French students and French. I think I said that. Yes , we said that.
S2: So as of now , we only offer our rooms in San Diego. We are planning to expand to Orange County and Los Angeles for the fall 2023 and more afterwards , hopefully. S5: That's the founder and executive director of the Cat Lounge and Rescue , Renee Shamu. She's a practicing attorney. That's her 9 to 5 job. But as much as Shamu loves the law , her passion for cats compelled her to get involved in rescuing them and matching them up with people. She started in her apartment.
S2: The two kittens. And I was like , Oh my gosh , this is great. And they liked me , I think. And so I guess they had to come home with me. S6: Once they do go home , we call after a few days to see how things are going. We are always a resource for our adopters and I think that's one of the best things about adopting from a rescue is you have our knowledge and our care behind it.
S2: I mean , sleep is all something. Something we all do. And it's something that we need to do. And yet it can be such a difficult struggle for many people. And I think part of the reason for that is that sleep can be easily affected by many things. Right. I mean , stress can throw off a night's sleep being ill. Common cold symptoms can throw off a night's sleep. Your neighbors dog barking can affect your sleep. So in a way , sleep is very vulnerable to disruption.
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