Tag Archives: drought

Imagine H2O (IH2O), the San Francisco-based innovation accelerator, has opened applications for their second annual California Water Policy Challenge.  The challenge aims to strengthen the quality of water management by accelerating the development of water data innovations and technologies. It is a policy brief competition designed to identify policy ideas …

The California Water Data Challenge was launched last Friday by several state agencies in partnership with the White House Council of Environmental Quality as a competition to develop innovative, data-based tools to help California address its drought, now in its sixth year. The competition is also designed to help California …

A lawsuit filed in 2013 by Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (Agua Caliente) seeking unprecedented rights to groundwater that would supersede other water users in the Coachella Valley has been challenged by Desert Water Agency (DWA) and Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). The two water agencies presented oral arguments …

Questions have arisen regrading a 30-year practice of using wastewater from oil and gas field operations to irrigate food crops in California – primarily in Kern County. Though the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board (CVRWQB) has said that no studies to date have shown oil wastewater-irrigated crops pose any …

The Indian Wells Valley Water District (IWVWD), located in Ridgecrest, has launched an extensive solar and energy efficiency project that is expected to save the district $9.38 million in net savings throughout the life of the program. District officials recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to officially start the project and …

The Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) has been awarded the prestigious Gold Award for Exceptional Utility Performance from the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) at AMWA’s 2016 Executive Management Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. CVWD is one of only five agencies nationwide that met all of the rigorous requirements in …