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Help is on the way, both immediate and long-term, for the nitrate and salt contamination of groundwater basins and surface water in the Central Valley. Although the long-term resolution may be a multi-year process, stakeholders have developed a plan to address one of the region’s most challenging water quality problems. …

Two have been found to have blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and state water authorities are encouraging people to avoid contact with water at Big Bear Lake and Silverwood Lake’s Cleghorn Beach. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board reported the presence of …

A new funding opportunity has been released by the Bureau of Reclamation its Desalination and Water Purification Research (DWPR) Program. The DWPR Program seeks to increase water supplies by reducing the cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired and otherwise unusable waters. Applicants must provide at least 75 …

Six nonprofit agency programs will share in $364,000 in 2019 grants from The San Diego Foundation (TSDF) to increase equity and strengthen regional resilience as it relates to diminishing water supplies due to the impacts of climate change. Since 2015, The San Diego Foundation Climate Initiative has partnered with the …

Unlike some of the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) staff the newest recruits never complain about their hours or supervisors, never request vacation time and never question their working conditions or ask for a computer upgrade. However, they do require an immense amount of food (and continually!) and they might …

Oh, what a difference a year can make! A year ago, at the start of Water Year (WY) 2019 water storage in the State Water Project’s (SWP) largest reservoir, Lake Oroville, was at just 62 percent of average. Although many of the state’s other large reservoirs were posting better averages, …