While not meeting the Governor’s mandate of a 25% reduction, Californians came close, conserving 24.3 percent in March. Statewide cumulative savings from June 2015 to March 2016 totaled 23.9 percent compared with the same months in 2013. Nearly 1.3 million acre-feet of water has been conserved during the past 10 …
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California lawmaker Rep. Grace Napolitano, (D-CA) has joined forces with Rep. Pete DeFazio, (D-OR), to introduce legislation that will help cities and communities finance critical clean water infrastructure projects. The “Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act of 2016”, would authorize $20 billion over five years for wastewater infrastructure. “The Water …
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The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, operational since December 2015, has been honored with a Global Water Award as the Desalination Plant of the Year for 2016 by Global Water Intelligence, publisher of periodicals for the international water industry. The award goes to “the desalination plant, commissioned during 2015, …
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Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) and the California Department of Water Resources (CDWR) recently announced an agreement regarding the proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan /California WaterFix (CWF), aka the “twin tunnels”, should they be built. Since 2006, CCWD has publicly raised concerns with the state about the twin tunnels regarding …
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Six student groups from three states have been identified as the winners of the Visualize Your Water Quality high school citizen science challenge hosted by Esri of Redlands, Calif. along with the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey and the National Geographic Society. Visualize You Water Quality in …
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Improved Water Supply Conditions Have Helped Loosen Drought’s Grip Metropolitan Water District (MWD) has announced plans to reopen the boat launches at Diamond Valley Lake (DVL) in mid-May thanks to Metropolitan making its first significant water deliveries into the lake in more than three years. DVL, near Hemet in southwest …
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