Los Angeles Times: Import our water from wetter climes? It’s a pipe dream Sacramento Bee: Critics take aim at Nestlé bottled water plant in Sacramento Grist: Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong Sacramento Bee: California water use numbers should flow freely Central Valley Business Times: It’s all ears when water commissioners speak New York Times: Drought […]
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Bay Area Water Trail in the news! Recent Publicity for the Water Trail. Thanks to journalist Paul McHugh, an upbeat article about the Water Trail (WT) was published in the Sacramento Bee on April 21. Paul did a great job of summarizing progress to date and reasons to feel excited about the future of the trail. Black […]
Continue ReadingIssue No. 1 April 2015 Water Board To Adopt Ocean Desalination Rules and Regulations The long awaited amendments to the California Ocean Plan relating to ocean desalination are set for an adoption hearing on May 6, 2015. After four years of multiple public workshops, several expert panels and studies a new rigorous 21st Century set […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is the agenda for the May 5-6, 2015 Board Meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: California orders no water diversions despite legal rights Stockton Record: Curtailments; Drought deja vu; Junior water rights cut off again Reuters: Bill to ban fining Californians who let lawns go brown in drought Los Angeles Times: California Assembly acts to prohibit fines for brown lawns in droughts KTLA 5 Los Angeles: Amid Extreme Drought, JPL Scientists Use New Technology […]
Continue ReadingMEDIA ADVISORY: EPA, Justice Department, and State of California will announce a Clean Water Act settlement to protect San Francisco Bay Release Date: 04/23/2015 Contact Information: Suzanne Skadowski, U.S. EPA, 415-972-3165, skadowski.suzanne@epa.gov SAN FRANCISCO – On April 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and the State of California will announce a […]
Continue ReadingApril 23, 2015 ACWA Submits Comment Letter on State Board Proposed Regulations on Mandatory Conservation Formal Rulemaking Package Expected on April 28 ACWA submitted comments late yesterday to the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the draft emergency regulations on mandatory conservation issued April 18. ACWA’s comment letter and related attachments are available here. Yesterday […]
Continue ReadingApril 23, 2015 In This Issue We’re Doing Some Spring Cleaning! AB 1144 Passes Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee Everyone’s Abuzz Over Microbeads Spring 2015 Attorneys Meeting Greg Kester to Aid in Ebola Research Projects House Committee Approves Bill to Block Waters of the U.S. Rule Upcoming Events In Case You Missed It We’re […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Notice of Postponement of Public Hearing regarding Supplemental Public Hearing to be held pursuant to Order WR 2012-0012, and for Order WR 2011-0005 which issued a Cease and Desist Order (CDO) against Woods Irrigation Company.
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Revised Notice of Adoption Meeting Proposed Final Amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan for Ocean Waters of California Addressing Desalination Facility Intakes, Brine Discharges, and the Incorporation of Other Non-Substantive Changes and Proposed Final Staff Report Including the Substitute […]
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