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G. Patrick O’Dowd has announced that he will be leaving the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) Board of Directors after serving for six years and will be joining the Salton Sea Authority as Executive Director. “It’s been a privilege to serve on the CVWD board,” said O’Dowd. “My time on …

The Cadiz Water Project has been named the Sustainability/Green Infrastructure Project of the Year by global infrastructure strategy organization CG/LA at their North American Infrastructure Leadership Forum held virtually October 28 from Washington D.C. Scott Slater, CEO and President of Cadiz, accepted the award for the Company and stated: “Access to …

Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) has once again received the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2020 Gold Level  “Workplace Achievement Index” designation. WMWD is one of 776 organizations that completed the Index assessment this year, evaluating the time period of July 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Of the organizations that …

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has announced a new grant program that provides Los Angeles City residents with a one-time grant of up to $500 who have been financially impacted through the loss of their job or who have otherwise experienced income loss in their household due …

Cham-Cal Engineering Co. and Western Avenue Associates, L.P. have been slapped with a $1.14 million penalty by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board for failing to comply with a 2016 Cleanup and Abatement Order. Cham-Cal, the operator and owner of a facility in Garden Grove that manufactures commercial …

The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition to improve public safety around canals throughout the United States. Reclamation maintains approximately 8,000 miles of canals in the Western United States and more than 1,000 of those miles are in urban areas. These canals in urban areas have higher …