The California Regional Water Quality Control Board will be hold another “Evaluation of the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) Beneficial Use in Agriculturally Dominated Surface Water Bodies” stakeholder meeting in early August. This next meeting will focus primarily on the Monitoring/Surveillance component of the Region-wide MUN Evaluation Process basin plan amendment. The meeting will revisit Controlled Recirculating […]
Continue ReadingEBMUD declared a Stage 4 critical drought and set a community-wide goal to reduce water use 20% compared to 2013. To achieve these savings, EBMUD adopted new water use rules that affect everyone in the East Bay. Click here to view a June 2015 EBMUD Informational Brochure on the Water Use Restrictions in Effect due […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Notice of Public Workshop on Solicitation of Comments regarding Conservation Water Pricing and Implementation of Directive 8 of Executive Order B-29-15. The Public Workshop is scheduled for July 8, 2015. Comment Deadline is July 1, 2015 by 12 noon.
Continue ReadingACWA eNews for June 10, 2015 ACWA’s eNews is a weekly roundup of California water news and events. Click here to view the ACWA eNews for June 10, 2015.
Continue ReadingSan Jose Mercury News: California drought: El Niño continues to build, bringing increased chances of a wet winter San Jose Mercury News: Ocean investigators set their sights on Pacific Ocean ‘blob’ KQED: Rain in June? No Drought-Buster, But We’ll Take It The Daily Caller: Calif. Drought Results In Rotating Blame Game Los Angeles Times: Gov. Brown says ‘spaceship Earth’ […]
Continue ReadingThe State Water Resources Control Board will consider a proposed Resolution to adopt a drought-related emergency regulation requiring enhanced water conservation and additional water user information for the protection of specific fisheries in four tributaries to the Russian River (Dutch Bill Creek, Green Valley Creek, Mark West Creek and Mill Creek) on June 17 at its June 16-17 […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: Watch: Gov. Brown discusses drought with Times publisher Austin Beutner Los Angeles Times: Welcome to Water and Power Associated Press: California lawmaker proposes steep tax for water guzzlers Associated Press: $340 million in California drought-relief money left unspent Los Angeles Times: Gov. Jerry Brown sees California getting through drought Los Angeles Times: Drought and record-breaking heat are bad […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). Thank you to those who attended the last stakeholder meeting for the “Evaluation of the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) Beneficial Use in Ag Dominated Surface Waters” project. The emphasis of the meeting last week was on the continued […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. This notice is to advise interested persons that the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) has posted a public notice of a Temporary Urgency Change Petition (TUCP) filed by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the United States Bureau of […]
Continue ReadingSacramento Bee: Three Sacramento water agencies get breather on drought cutbacks Fresno Bee: Fresno water use plummets 24.8% in May over last year CBS San Francisco: East Bay Residents Appalled By Water Park Construction In Drought Stricken California Dublin Breitbart News: LA Times: Drought ‘Serious, But Hardly a Disaster’ Orange County Register: Sacrifice the bullet train to the water gods […]
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