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 …
Read More »
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, …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
Spillway Completion Marks Major Milestone Having completed the spillway of the new Calaveras Dam project–a major milestone in the projected $810 million dam project—construction crews can now move forward in constructing the 220-foot high earth and rock-fill dam. The new spillway, near the Alameda-Santa Clara county line, is described as …
Read More »
Delta Advocates File Lawsuit Against Metropolitan Water District San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties were joined by Food & Water Watch, the Planning and Conservation League and the Central Delta Water Agency on Thursday in filing suit against Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California to block the agency’s proposed …
Read More »
In the next step toward a $175 million purchase of five agricultural islands in the Northern California Delta, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has signed a 103-page contract to purchase the land from Delta Wetlands Property (DWP). DWP is owned by Zurich Insurance Group, a financial services conglomerate. …
Read More »
California Water News Daily Your Source For Water News in California
