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Californians and the State Water Resources Control Board have something to smile about. Water conservation, despite the lifting of mandatory conservation targets in May, remains the thing to do with Californians using 28 percent less water in May than they did in comparison to the same period in 2013. Water …

California’s Third District Court of Appeal has reinstated a stay temporarily blocking the sale of some 20,000 acres to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). The new stay lasts until at least July 15. The controversial sale of Delta island land from Swiss investors to MWD was originally …

Some Northeast Fresno residents are frustrated and worried. But all of the residents want to know if it’s safe to drink the water coming into their homes. The problem is not new. Mari Rose and Shann Conner claim the water in their homes began to turn yellowish-brown more than a …

Temecula-based Rancho California Water District (RCWD) has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency Grants for the implementation of an Agricultural Crop Conversion Program.  The program’s goal is to help sustain local agriculture by providing financial incentives to the water district’s agricultural …

Silver Lake residents heard good news from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) this week when DWP confirmed that the lake will be refilled probably sometime next spring. Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu got to the meat of the matter in his opening comments saying, “The most …

Fourteen California agencies will receive grant funds from the Bureau of Reclamation to support projects to increase water and energy conservation and efficiency, plan for climate change and other threats to our water supplies, and to take action to secure our water resources for the communities, economies and ecosystems they …