Drought

An experiment to boost the food supply chain for the endangered Delta smelt is providing hope for the tiny fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Federal, state and local water suppliers along with scientists from the California Department of Water Resources are working to improve the long-term decline in …

The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board has issued a nearly $600,000 penalty to developer San Altos-Lemon Grove, LLC for 81 violations of the Statewide General Construction Storm Water Permit between December 2014 and September 2015. The violations resulted in six sediment discharges from the Valencia Hills construction site …

Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) recently awarded local students Cynthia Mejia, Christopher Hooks and Amanda Penicks $500 scholarships as part of the District’s partnership with local colleges and universities to encourage water- and environmental-related studies. The scholarships will help the students in the pursuit of undergraduate water-related degrees. “These students …

Ichthyophthirius multifillis – or “ich” – has been detected in fish in limited parts of the Klamath River on the Yurok Reservation. Ich is a deadly parasite and killed some 35,000 adult Chinook salmon and steelhead fish in 2002 on the Klamath. This year’s occurrence marks the third time ich …

The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society have filed a 60-day “notice of intent to sue” alleging the cities of Colton and San Bernardino and their Regional Tertiary Treatment and Water Reclamation Authority have allowed the plant to repeatedly strand and kill …

For residents of East Porterville clean, potable water running through their pipes and out the spigots has been a memory, a dream and a frustration for the past three years. But, beginning last Friday, that has begun to change for residents, one household at a time. During the 2011-12 legislative …