Drought

Water reliability for an unannexed portion of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation’s Reservation took a major step forward earlier this week when the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California agreed to water deliveries to 227 acres of developed land on the tribe’s reservation …

Three public meetings to gather feedback on the proposed new fee program at Lake Berryessa in the Napa Valley have been scheduled and the Bureau of Reclamation is seeking input on how to best use the collected funds. The proposed fees would fund improvements to recreation facilities and programs, provide …

As a means to helping prevent the use of approximately 68,000 plastic water bottles annually, decreasing the potentially harmful environmental impacts of single-use plastics while also providing access to free, high-quality water at local schools, community centers and parks, the West Basin Municipal Water District (WBMWD) has re-opened applications for …

The Bureau of Reclamation has selected 16 projects throughout the country to receive $3.5 million for desalination and water purification research. Four of the projects are in California and will receive a total of $778,424. Two of the projects are for laboratory projects and two are pilot-scale projects. The $3.5 …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with four Oakland industrial companies last week for Clean Water Act violations. Each of the companies had failed to develop and implement an adequate stormwater pollution prevention plan and each of the four failed to use best management practices designed to prevent …

Friday’s 12th Annual San Bernardino County (SBC) Water Conference hosted a plethora of water experts as panelists and moderators as well as two featured speakers for more than 300 attendees at the Ontario DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center. But a common thread and often repeated message heard from many of …