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A bill targeting to save California’s source watersheds recently passed in the Assembly and is now headed to a hearing on June 28 in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. AB 2480, authored by Richard Bloom (D -Santa Monica) would officially recognize five critical Sierra Nevada and Cascade watersheds …

The ongoing issue of California’s drought now faces additional issues with the increasing number of dead trees in the Southern Sierra Nevada forests and a budget lacking the resources for fighting massive wildfire disasters. The U.S. Forest Service maintains that, “With the increasing size and costs of suppressing wildfires due …

Four consecutive years of drought and a less-than-hoped-for El Nino this past winter have not been wiped away by one winter’s worth of near average snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains. A study published earlier this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, …

The state-of-the-art reverse osmosis efficiency portion of the Chino Desalter Phase 3 Expansion Project has been completed and some 100 local water leaders and officials recent celebrated with a ribbon-cutting event. Underway since 2008 the Chino Desalter’s treatment capacity will eventually increase from 10 million gallons per day (MGD) to …

Water for thirsty Californians from the near average snowpack in the northern Sierras is melting away. As Southern California continues to bake from near record-breaking heat and the federal government’s Drought Monitor points to the region as continuing to suffer an “exceptional drought” status, the recent news that the snowmelt …

If you’ve ever spent any time at Lake Havasu along the California-Arizona border you’ve likely seen Parker Dam, the site where the Colorado River’s waters are initially drawn into what is known as the Colorado River Aqueduct (CRA). Originally conceived by William Mulholland, it was the largest public works project …