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An April 20 public workshop to discuss potential modifications to the current Emergency Regulation for Statewide Urban Water Conservation will be hosted by the State Water Resources Control Board.  The meeting will be held at the Joe Serna, Jr. – CalEPA Headquarters Building, Coastal Hearing Room in Sacramento. In November …

Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency (BBARWA) has been selected as the California Water Environment Association’s (CWEA) recipient of the 2015 Plant of the Year for facilities with a rate flow of less than five million gallons per day (MGD).  MGD equates to a water flow rate of measurement for …

The question of the day for Californians is whether the state’s five-year drought is over.  Clearly it depends on who you talk with, but most water authorities say that in spite of an El Nino storm system in Northern California this year, overall the California drought persists. On Wednesday Frank …

Community Meeting on Thursday will discuss the Project, Environmental Report After being studied for more than a decade, plans are moving forward for a $90 million desalination plant near San Juan Creek on 30 acres of land owned by South Coast Water District (SCWD), about 2,500 feet from the beach …

Almarai, the largest dairy company in Saudi Arabia, has purchased 1,790 acres of land in California’s Palo Verde Valley to grow the water-intensive alfalfa it needs to feed its cows. Almarai paid $31.5 million for the land earlier this year, in an area which enjoys “first dibs” on water from …

California’s Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) have both individually written letters late last week urging President Obama to direct federal officials to increase pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta immediately. Both legislators are seeking Obama’s direction to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife …