Drought

Tuolumne Utilities District (TUD) is slated to begin design and permitting in order to improve the water quality and storage capacity of Phoenix Lake and Phoenix Lake watershed. The Phoenix Lake Preservation and Restoration Project will start next week. Using a floating barge, Horizon Water and Environment, Inc. and its …

A series of workshops have been scheduled by the California Natural Resources Agency to provide information and solicit input on the state’s Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP). The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Geographically at thirty-five miles long and 15 miles wide, the desert lake extends from the Coachella …

Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District (MWD) has released their analysis of water supplies for the next three years saying that it has sufficient water supplies to meet the demands of its member agencies thanks, in large part, to Southland residents and their successful water conservation efforts. When the State Water …

Lacking a true, heavy rain El Niño presence in Southern California this year and rising global temperatures, fire officials throughout the Southland came together recently to warn people to take precautions, maintain your properties and shrubbery and be prepared. Michael Moore, Riverside fire chief, said this will be a “critical” …

A new General Order, approved last week by the State Water Resources Control Board, will simplify the permitting process for recycled water projects thus advancing the state’s goal of increasing recycled water use statewide. Expanding water recycling is a key quantity of the state’s efforts to increase regional self-reliance under …

Regulators with the State Water Resources Control Board have formally dropped complaints against two Northern California water districts. Both were accused of diverting water in summer 2015 in violation of a drought order. In the case of the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District (BBID) the complaint included a $1.5 million fine. Though …