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Never more so than during the hot summer days are Southern Californians more aware of the cost of outdoor watering. As the mercury on the thermometer climbs so do the totals on water bills. But Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California is making it easier to remove your lawns …

In 2012 a petition was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) for the protection of the Shasta salamanders to determine if the species warranted Endangered Species Act protection. Then known as one species a discovery published last year revealed that the Shasta salamander …

According to a symposium held in July 2017 by the United States Department of Agriculture on Drought and Tree Mortality in the Pacific Southwest Region, over 129 million California trees on 8.9 million acres died between 2010 and 2017. The southern Sierra Nevada was the most heavily impacted region. Now, …

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation has announced the allocation of 29.1 million in grants from the WaterSMART Program to aid communities in better conserving water. Forty-five projects from 13 states will use the WaterSMART funds will received funds in one of two categories. Twenty-eight projects from 11 states …

The recent 2019 annual recognition ceremony of Top Workplaces in the Bay Area saw California Water Service Group receive the designation for the eighth consecutive year. Top Workplace rankings are determined through survey data gathered by an independent research company specializing in employee engagement and retention. The Bay Area News …

As wildfire season now is a year-long phenomenon in CA, public drinking water systems and their customers are faced with a double-edged sword. First there’s the damage to their water systems and then there’s the lawsuits for damage to their infrastructure caused by fires they didn’t start. A diverse group …