California’s water professionals are on the front lines of one of the state’s most important lifelines. It is a life-sustaining profession and it continues 24/7, 365 days a year; the public depends on water professionals to guarantee that when the tap is activated that water – good, clean water – …
Read More »Feinstein lobs new attack on Cadiz Project about water quality, Company responds
Though the proposed Cadiz Water Project has repeatedly withstood numerous legal challenges to its Mojave Desert project, Senator Dianne Feinstein recently attempted to lob yet another attack on the Cadiz’s planned groundwater project that will deliver new water supplies from its property in San Bernardino County to 400,000 people in …
Read More »Public funds and private donations helping to fund the Advancing Potable Reuse Initiative
The Water Environment and Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) is seeking partners and funding to further fund its newly launched Advancing Potable Reuse Initiative. Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, recently made a $100,000 contribution to the initiative. The funds will help advance potable reuse as a solution …
Read More »State Water Contractors invest $380,000 to research effects of water operations on Delta Smelt
The 27 public agencies throughout California that comprise the State Water Contractors (SWC) are investing $380,000 as their contribution to habitat studies in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta this fall. The habitat studies are being conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation through the Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) to better understand the …
Read More »California Energy Commission grant funds new wastewater treatment technology in Rialto
A $1.56 million grant from the California Energy Commission and a partnership between BDP EnviroTech, Veolia North America and the city of Rialto have made possible a new demonstration project at the city of Rialto’s wasterwater treatment plant. The demonstration project, designed by BDP will utilize easy to maintain aeration …
Read More »State Supreme Court declines final issue in MWD and San Diego County Water Authority case
The California State Supreme Court denied to review an appellate court ruling earlier this week brought forward by the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) regarding a case over rates set by the Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California. The case ruling earlier this year by the …
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