Drought

Certain areas of the San Joaquin Valley are continuing to sink rapidly according to new NASA radar satellite maps prepared for the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). Groundwater pumping and subsistence are continuing to put state and federal flood control structures and aqueducts at risk of damage. The report …

A settlement agreement between the State Water Resources Control Board and Los Angeles-based Ami Adini & Associates, Inc. has been reached over allegations the environmental engineering and consultation firm was negligent in conducting cleanup of petroleum contaminated underground storage tank sites. Adini & Associates provides general engineering and hazardous substance …

The California Forest Watershed Alliance (CAFWA) has unveiled a new website and educational video detailed its proactive priorities to help protect the state’s forested watersheds and has thereby entered the state’s public policy area. CAFWA supports policies and practices that promote healthy forests that are more resilient to drought, wildfire, …

Panoche Water District in Central California has come under review by the State Controller’s office for what is being deemed as a shocking misuse of funds.  State Controller Betty T. Yee’s team has reviewed the district’s administrative and accounting controls and found prevalent and severe deficiencies. “The district’s egregious lack …

Oh, what a difference a month can make! Thursday’s manual snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains recorded 28.1 inches of snow water equivalence (SWE) over the mere six inches found there during the January 3 survey. In the words of Frank Gehrke, chief of the California …

Mesofilter Inc., a San Jose-based developer and manufacturer of innovative nanotechnology to reduce and filter heavy metals in water, recently announced that NSF International, the global public health organization, has certified that Mesofilter’s new product, the NanoNose Water Purifier, filters water to reduce arsenic to below the health advisory levels …