Drought

Conference to review past water successes, prepare for future issues  Planners are at work putting the finishing touches on the tenth annual San Bernardino County Water Conference scheduled for Friday, August 12. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 12 noon preceded by a networking breakfast at 7 a.m. …

Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD), located in Perris, (Riverside County) has been recently honored by the Government Finance Officers Association for Excellence in Financial Reporting.  This marks the 13th consecutive year that EMWD has earned this award. The Certificate of Achievement (COA) award was presented to EMWD’s Finance Department — Deputy …

Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Moss denied a suit by Yorba Linda (Orange County, CA) residents opposed to a $25 monthly water-rate increase levied on them by their local water district. The Yorba Linda Water District (YLWD) has said that without the increase the district would have faced …

Thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) will be able to begin a study to determine whether drought and adverse weather conditions cause health problems, and whether water policy effects the link between extreme temperatures and health. The Foundation’s Evidence for Action …

Some 2.4 million gallons of sewage has flowed into the Los Angeles River, beginning Monday afternoon, due to a broken pipe in downtown Los Angeles effectively closing both Long Beach and Seal Beach. Officials are hopefully they will be able to reopen both beaches on Thursday. Originally a sewage line …

The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced an additional increase in the water supply allocation to the Friant Division contractors of their Class 1 water from 65 to 75 percent. This allocation increase has been made possible by an agreement Reclamation negotiated with Friant Division contractors and others to exchange water …