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The U. S. Forest Service, the state Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Nestle Waters North America are currently at odds over Nestle’s continued piping of water from the San Bernardino National Forest in order to produce Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water. The controversy stems from a permit that expired in …

Thanks to funding from Proposition 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Governing Board has awarded $3.2 million in grants for project that will address watershed restoration, forest health, tree mortality and reducing wildfire risk. The $3.2 million grants are the …

Though the much-hyped El Nino of 2015-16 only materialized in some parts of the state, it was enough to boost California’s hydropower generation to its best levels since 2011. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA), the state’s hydropower production in March was 2.77 million megawatt hours – the …

The California-Nevada Section of American Water Works Association’s (CA-NV AWWA) will be working for the next approximately two years to train and assist California’s urban water agencies to produce validated system water audits in order to comply with California Senate Bill 555.  The bill established the requirement that each urban …

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently issues established health advisories for two contaminants found in drinking water in order to provide water system operators, or those who have oversight of water systems, with the information on the health risks of these chemicals so they can take any appropriate actions …

As California’s water agencies look to the autonomy of determining their own water conservation plans and goals, thanks to at least a partial showing of the famed El Nino in Northern California, the status of a waning Colorado River and its holding tank, Lake Mead, spell yet another problem for …