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Blue-Green algae is blooming throughout California. Authorities are warning both residents and visitors, including swimmers, boaters and recreational users to avoid direct contact with, or use of, waters containing potentially harmful blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and to avoid swallowing or inhaling water spray in an algae bloom area. Exposure to blue-green …

Region 1 of the Association of California Water Agencies is recruiting candidates to submit applications to fill a vacancy on its board for the 2016-17 term. Region 1 includes the counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, Trinity, and Siskiyou Counties. Region 1 board members determine the …

Conference to review past water successes, prepare for future issues  Planners are at work putting the finishing touches on the tenth annual San Bernardino County Water Conference scheduled for Friday, August 12. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 12 noon preceded by a networking breakfast at 7 a.m. …

Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD), located in Perris, (Riverside County) has been recently honored by the Government Finance Officers Association for Excellence in Financial Reporting.  This marks the 13th consecutive year that EMWD has earned this award. The Certificate of Achievement (COA) award was presented to EMWD’s Finance Department — Deputy …

Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Moss denied a suit by Yorba Linda (Orange County, CA) residents opposed to a $25 monthly water-rate increase levied on them by their local water district. The Yorba Linda Water District (YLWD) has said that without the increase the district would have faced …

Thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) will be able to begin a study to determine whether drought and adverse weather conditions cause health problems, and whether water policy effects the link between extreme temperatures and health. The Foundation’s Evidence for Action …