The effects of California’s prolonged drought continue to be felt and seen throughout the state. The state and local water agencies continue to promote water conservation, dead vegetation can still be found in residential and commercial properties and, now, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that an …
Read More »Eleven projects funded by Prop 1 water funds for disadvantaged Trinity County communities
The State Water Resources Control Board, in conjunction with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, recently approved the funding of 11 projects in the North Coast region including more than $15 million for the consolidation of three wastewater collection and treatment systems in the Trinity County community of …
Read More »Orange County Nursery donates 300 plants for Irrigation Field Trials at two UC campuses
Village Nurseries – founded in 1976 and serving the re-wholesale, retail and landscape contractor markets throughout the western United States – has donated 300 plants to the University of California Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials to help determine water needs for landscape plants. The trials are part of meeting California’s mandatory …
Read More »Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling, won’t hear water agencies’ appeal on groundwater rights
A plea by two desert water agencies for the United States Supreme Court to hear an appeal regarding an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a lawsuit by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has been denied. The two water agencies – Desert Water Agency …
Read More »Emergency Declaration for flooding in Owens Valley lifted by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has lifted the emergency declaration for the Owen Valley he originally mandated in March. The declaration was initiated to guard against and better manage the potential flooding near the Los Angeles Aqueduct due to near record-breaking snow – and subsequent runoff – from the Eastern …
Read More »PG&E launches funding challenge for “California Climate Challenge” with $1 million
The reality in the Golden state is drought, atmospheric storms, heatwaves and wildfires, all of which have been exacerbated by the growing effects of climate change. California’s five-plus year record-breaking drought, increasingly hot summers, record-breaking precipitation due to rain and snow and a longer and more intense fire season are …
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