Drought

Eastern Municipal Water District’s (EMWD) proposed Perris North Groundwater Program received a major boost with a $36.3 million grant from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). The proposed project is a long-term solution to improve groundwater quality in the North Perris Groundwater Basin, in the Moreno Valley area of …

After 13 years of work, a plan to reduce nitrate contamination and salt build-up in the Central Valley’s groundwater and surface water supplies has come to fruition. Development of the Central Valley-wide Salt and Nitrate Management Plan, along with the stakeholder initiative Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability, began …

The Western United States has increasing been subject to the whims of Mother Nature regarding the availability of water supplies. Managing in an era of multi-year droughts, deluges and floods, and the need to protect and replenish dwindling groundwater basins is a challenge for any water manager. Last year President …

Help is on the way, both immediate and long-term, for the nitrate and salt contamination of groundwater basins and surface water in the Central Valley. Although the long-term resolution may be a multi-year process, stakeholders have developed a plan to address one of the region’s most challenging water quality problems. …

Two have been found to have blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and state water authorities are encouraging people to avoid contact with water at Big Bear Lake and Silverwood Lake’s Cleghorn Beach. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board reported the presence of …

A new funding opportunity has been released by the Bureau of Reclamation its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) Program. The DWPR Program seeks to increase water supplies by reducing the cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired and otherwise unusable waters. Applicants must provide at least 75 …