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The California Forest Watershed Alliance (CAFWA) has unveiled a new website and educational video detailed its proactive priorities to help protect the state’s forested watersheds and has thereby entered the state’s public policy area. CAFWA supports policies and practices that promote healthy forests that are more resilient to drought, wildfire, …

Panoche Water District in Central California has come under review by the State Controller’s office for what is being deemed as a shocking misuse of funds.  State Controller Betty T. Yee’s team has reviewed the district’s administrative and accounting controls and found prevalent and severe deficiencies. “The district’s egregious lack …

Oh, what a difference a month can make! Thursday’s manual snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains recorded 28.1 inches of snow water equivalence (SWE) over the mere six inches found there during the January 3 survey. In the words of Frank Gehrke, chief of the California …

Mesofilter Inc., a San Jose-based developer and manufacturer of innovative nanotechnology to reduce and filter heavy metals in water, recently announced that NSF International, the global public health organization, has certified that Mesofilter’s new product, the NanoNose Water Purifier, filters water to reduce arsenic to below the health advisory levels …

Roya Resources LLC, a Bakersfield-based company, has identified a potentially huge California fresh water aquifer. Roya President F. Lynn Blystone recently shared that data suggests fresh water formations at least two miles thick with a potentially huge footprint of several hundred square miles. Blystone also indicated that the prospect is …

Wendy Ridderbusch, director of state relations for the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), recently testified at the Little Hoover Commission’s hearing on the state’s response to the tree mortality crisis in the Sierra Nevada. Ridderbusch spoke on the impact of forest health on water supply and water quality statewide. …