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West Basin Municipal Water District, based in Carson, has received two professional accolades in a two-week period of time. The first, received in mid-August, was the prestigious 23rd Annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement® (AEP) Award for 2018 from the National Procurement Institute, Inc. (NPI). The second was a perfect …

Water industry veteran Adam Ly has recently been hired as the new Assistant General Manager (AGM) at Palmdale Water District (PWD). Ly most recently worked at for Downey-based Liberty Utilities (LU) California, a private utilities company which provides services in Arizona, Texas and California including sites in Apple Valley and …

The giant crater carved by atmospheric rivers on the main spillway of the Oroville Dam and the subsequent erosion of the hillside of the dam’s adjacent never-before-used emergency spillway in early February 2017 not only triggered the evacuation of some 188,000 residents downstream of the dam; it also triggered a …

Another attempt by legislators to tax Californians for clean water has failed in a last-minute attempt and the failure has received praise by many. Senate Bill (SB) 845 by State Senator Bill Monning (D-17th District-Monterey) would have added a voluntary drinking water tax of approximately 95 cents onto California ratepayers’ …

The city of Chula Vista, in concert with the national law firm of Baron & Budd, announced that they have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of California against Monsanto Company for widespread polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination. Chula Vista is the sixth California city, represented …

Orange County Water District (OCWD) was recently notified by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation that they are to receive $350,00 for two of their Water Purification Research projects. Reclamation has selected 16 research projects to receive a total of $3.5 million under the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program …