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Ichthyophthirius multifillis – or “ich” – has been detected in fish in limited parts of the Klamath River on the Yurok Reservation. Ich is a deadly parasite and killed some 35,000 adult Chinook salmon and steelhead fish in 2002 on the Klamath. This year’s occurrence marks the third time ich …

The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society have filed a 60-day “notice of intent to sue” alleging the cities of Colton and San Bernardino and their Regional Tertiary Treatment and Water Reclamation Authority have allowed the plant to repeatedly strand and kill …

For residents of East Porterville clean, potable water running through their pipes and out the spigots has been a memory, a dream and a frustration for the past three years. But, beginning last Friday, that has begun to change for residents, one household at a time. During the 2011-12 legislative …

The Bureau of Reclamation and the Placerville -area El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) recently announced they have entered into a Warren Act contract for 17,000 acre-feet per year of EID’s Project 184 supplies/Water Rights Permit 21112 from Folsom Reservoir. The contract is the result of EID’s 25-year effort to secure …

After two days of intense effort by more than 1,300 firefighting personnel the Blue Cut Fire remains at just four percent containment. The fire is a testament to the four-plus year drought complicated, in the San Bernardino County deserts and mountains, by extreme heat, low humidity and winds topping out …

For residents of tiny Paskenta, population 112 — located 130 miles north of Sacramento — you would never know that Northern California had a near-average rainfall in the past 12 months. For the third year in a row Paskenta is facing a unique drought.  And though their situation is the …