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Ten years in the making, the Amethyst Basin flood control and groundwater recharge facility is now a reality. A recent dedication ceremony marked the completion of the project and featured the four agencies that cooperatively saw the 27.4-acre project to completion. The $9-million project is designed to handle a 100-year …

Irvine Ranch Water District’s (IRWD) 2018 water efficiency campaign, “See it from Your Lawn’s Perspective,” has earned the prestigious Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award in the category of Community Relations for Associations, Government and Nonprofits. IRWD teamed with Sukle Advertising & Design of Denver, CO for …

Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California’s Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to become a leader and board member of the California Resilience Challenge (CRC), the statewide effort to build local resilience to the droughts, floods, wildfires and sea-level rise that climate change is expected to bring to California. …

The 2019 State Water Project (SWP) allocation has been upped from 70 percent to 75 percent for the remainder of calendar year 2019 according to an announcement from the Department of Water Resources (DWR) earlier this week. DWR indicated that this is the final allocation for the calendar year. Water …

Eight California projects will share more than $5 million in WaterSMART grants from the Bureau of Reclamation for projects to prepare and build resilience to drought. The grants are part of the recent 18 projects selected by Reclamation, totaling some $9 million in WaterSMART drought resiliency grants. “While the water …

The Sacramento-area Regional Water Authority (RWA) — a joint powers authority representing two dozen water providers and affiliates in the greater Sacramento area – is urging area residents to learn how to check their soil’s moisture before turning on the sprinklers. Even though virtually all of the state is no …