Infrastructure

In Northern California, water agencies have to estimate how much water is being wasted due to leaky pipes. They have to estimate because only part of the region has water meters. In the Sacramento Suburban Water District, only 75 percent of the 46,112 connections have meters. As the California drought …

The Cadiz Water Project has entered into a joint venture agreement with renewable energy company Lucid Energy to install electric generation technology in the first phase of their project. The first phase of the Cadiz Water Project includes the construction of a 43 mile pipeline to connect an underground aquifer …

On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously to spend $55 million on reactivating the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility that is currently unused. The move is considered an investment in Santa Barbara’s future water needs, especially as the California drought continues to worsen. It’s estimated that the desalination …

HydroRevolution, a subsidiary of WaterFX, will be building a $30 million dollar desalination plant in the Central Valley. The operation will run solely on solar energy and is a partnership in conjunction with the Panoche Water and Drainage District in Firebaugh. WaterFX is building the project on 35 acres of …

With the California drought at its worst, lawmakers are beginning to examine how to solve the water crisis. Instead of looking at traditional ways of conserving water, members of the Bureau of Reclamation are reexamining water projects and infrastructure that could help soften the drought’s blow. The reexamination comes after …

The Contra Costa Water District, in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, is looking to further expand the Los Vaqueros Reservoir in Contra Costa County. The expansion would increase the reservoir’s current capacity of 160,000 acre-feet to 275,000 acre-feet. The expansion is said to have been a part of …