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Groundwater sustainability has been a long-term commitment for the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). Long before the most recent drought, CVWD realized the need to design facilities at Whitewater – on west bank of the Whitewater River, 10 miles northwest of Palm Springs in Riverside County – to capture the runoff …

Assembly Bill 746, which took effect Jan. 1, requires all of California’s K-12 public schools, as well as day care and preschools on public school properties built before 2010, to complete lead sampling on drinking water fountain and faucets – and water used for preparing food. A new map-based, online …

A major flood in 1997 became the impetus for Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA) to identify future projects to reduce the region’s flood risk. The early January 1997 flood resulted in levee failure on the east bank of the Feather River some six miles south of Olivehurst. The affected communities …

District investing millions in infrastructure projects to make it happen Western provides nearly 29 billion gallons of water each year to customers in western Riverside County. Many may not realize that most of that water is imported from Northern California and the Colorado River. Because it must travel so far, …

Riverside County’s Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) recently began construction on an 18-month project for a new pump station as part of a five-year, $75 million infrastructure plan. The construction of the Sterling Pump Station will ultimately connect with the La Sierra Pipeline, a five-mile pipeline project also under construction. …

Three California water districts in a collaborative water supply reliability vision recently announced the formation of a public agency that will be charged with overseeing design and construction of the California Waterfix. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, along with the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Zone 7 …