Drought

Eleven-year veteran of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), Celeste Cantú, has announced that she will be leaving the organization as of June 30. Cantú, who has served as SAWPA’s general manager since 2006, is leaving to become the CEO of the Water Education for Latino Leaders (WELL), a …

After five-plus years of punishing drought in the state, the drought is over – for all but four California counties. Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Tuolumne counties will continue with emergency drinking water projects to help address diminished groundwater supplies as one of many consequences statewide due to the drought. Thanks …

  Travis Aberle has recently been named as the Assistant Regional Director for Business Services for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region. As the Assistant Regional Director for Business Services, Aberle will oversee numerous administrative functions for the Mid-Pacific Region. Prior to joining Reclamation, Aberle served with the U.S. Air …

Juanita Salas — community advocate, supporter of causes to benefit the region and a leader in the best use of tax dollars – has announced her candidacy of Division 1 of the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). As a third-generation Imperial County resident Salas has immersed herself in the issues of …

The fourth monthly measurement of the state’s snowpack was no surprise earlier this week when Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, conducted the reading at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada for the state’s Department of Water Resources (DWR). The manual reading found a snow …

The Coachella Valley Water district (CVWD) and Desert Water Agency (DWA) are seeking intervention of a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court — a three-judge federal appeals court panel – by requesting a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The landmark groundwater case, in litigation since 2013, was filed …