Drought

The recently released U. S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Los Angeles Basin Study has examined the region’s future water needs and resources and finds there is a potential water supply deficit for the region of approximately 160,000 acre-feet-per year by 2035 and 440,000 acre-feet-per-year or 25-percent less water than the region …

Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering, Inc. (PACE) of Fountain Valley, CA has been selected for one of three U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grants as part of innovative pilot-scale water treatment technologies and processes for inland desalination. PACE’s project, “Development of a Novel Photobiological Process to Improve Water Recovery in Brackish Groundwater …

The death march against California’s once plentiful trees continues due to a combination of the state’s five-plus year drought and the unrelenting bark beetle infestation that preys on the drought-weakened trees.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has identified an additional 36 …

The Story of Stuff Project, California-based Courage Campaign Institute and Center for Biological Diversity have repeated their frustration over a Nestlé subsidiary’s continuing to remove tens of millions of water annually from the San Bernardino mountains. The three environmental groups formally gave notice on Thursday of their intent to appeal …

Officials with the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), along with representatives from Imperial County, appeared before the State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday calling for immediate and definitive action before the end of 2016 for the adoption of a 10-year roadmap for the restoration of the Salton Sea. The meeting …

The Bureau of Reclamation has release two funding opportunities for water management entities to develop drought contingency plans and build long-term solutions to drought. These two funding opportunities are part of Reclamation’s Drought Response Program. The drought contingency planning funding opportunity is for applicants to request up to $200,000 to …