Drought

The State Water Resources Control Board, in conjunction with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, recently approved the funding of 11 projects in the North Coast region including more than $15 million for the consolidation of three wastewater collection and treatment systems in the Trinity County community of …

Village Nurseries – founded in 1976 and serving the re-wholesale, retail and landscape contractor markets throughout the western United States – has donated 300 plants to the University of California Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials to help determine water needs for landscape plants. The trials are part of meeting California’s mandatory …

A plea by two desert water agencies for the United States Supreme Court to hear an appeal regarding an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a lawsuit by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has been denied. The two water agencies – Desert Water Agency …

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has lifted the emergency declaration for the Owen Valley he originally mandated in March. The declaration was initiated to guard against and better manage the potential flooding near the Los Angeles Aqueduct due to near record-breaking snow – and subsequent runoff – from the Eastern …

The reality in the Golden state is drought, atmospheric storms, heatwaves and wildfires, all of which have been exacerbated by the growing effects of climate change. California’s five-plus year record-breaking drought, increasingly hot summers, record-breaking precipitation due to rain and snow and a longer and more intense fire season are …

Four watershed sites have been identified by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to collectively receive awards of $1.3 million for unregulated cannabis cultivation. As part of Assembly Bill (AB) 243, Governor Jerry Brown had earmarked $1.5 million for CDFW’s Cannabis Restoration Grant Program. “These grants mark an …