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Helix Water District has been awarded a $10.3 million grant from the California Department of Water Resources for the district’s drought resilience and drinking water supply reliability project. The project encompasses four infrastructure upgrades needed for the East County Advanced Water Purification project, which will purify recycled water to provide …

Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle claims that allege they sold PFAS-containing products when the companies knew that PFAS compounds would contaminate the environment and have the potential to cause cancers. Chemours will contribute 50 percent (about $592 million), and DuPont and …

Modesto Irrigation District (MID) has appointed Jimi Netniss as the District’s next General Manager. Netniss joined MID in 2001 as a Programmer in the Information Technology Department. He was promoted to Budget and Rates Administrator in the Finance Division in 2006, advanced to serve as Risk and Pricing Administrator and …

Valhalla High senior Lily Martinez and Grossmont High senior Stephen Abkin have been selected as the 2023 recipients of Helix Water district’s Robert D. Friedgen and Dr. Lillian M. Childs college scholarships. Martinez, who will attend UC San Diego and plans to major in biology, is an AP Scholar of …

Last week the Supreme Court issued their 9-0 ruling in a long-running dispute between Idaho landowners and the Environmental Protection Agency known as Sackett v. EPA. The ruling curtails the EPA’s authority to regulate certain wetlands that qualify as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act, curbing …

Assistant General Manager Robert Cheng of Coachella Valley Water District has been appointed President of the State Water Contractors (SWC) Board of Directors. SWC advocates sensible, science-based policies related to the State Water Project that result in sustainable and cost-effective management of the SWP for California’s residents, economy and environment. “I …