June 17, 2015 ACWA-Sponsored Bill on CEQA Noticing Set for Next Hearing on July 1 Support Letters Needed This Week for Senate Environmental Quality Committee The Senate Environmental Quality Committee is set to hear ACWA-sponsored AB 291 on July 1. The legislation, co-sponsored by the McGeorge School of Law Legislative and Public Policy Clinic, […]
Continue ReadingIssue No. 2 June 2015 OCWD Board of Directors Approve Term Sheet The Orange County Water District (OCWD) board of directors demonstrated their continued leadership by approving a term sheet t with Poseidon Resources that could lead to the purchase of 50 million gallons of water a day from the Huntington Beach Ocean Desalination Plant. Additional […]
Continue ReadingSacramento Bee: California’s trout hatcheries hurt by drought, disease McClatchy Washington Bureau: House Democrats float new California water bill Los Angeles Times: Master-planned community at risk of losing all water within days Los Angeles Times: Drought’s silver lining: Cleaner water at the beach Monterey County Now: Cal Am shuts off its desal test well as groundwater levels drop. Patch.com: County Bans […]
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: Officials revise strategy for releasing water from California’s largest reservoir to save fish Sacramento Bee: Urban water districts accuse Delta farmers of stealing water Associated Press: Santa Barbara to move forward with desalination plant Los Angeles Times: LA County’s plan to capture stormwater could be state model Los Angeles Times: Many of the world’s water basins are being depleted, […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board or Board) has updated its website with a Notice of Proposed Emergency Actions due to Insufficient Flow for Specific Fisheries in Tributaries to the Russian River and the proposed rulemaking package. The Notice of Proposed […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). The attached document is a Notice of Informational Item concerning the basin planning effort to establish a region-wide process for evaluating the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) beneficial use in agriculturally dominated surface water bodies. This informational item is scheduled […]
Continue ReadingNBC News: What Cuts to California Water Rights Mean, For Now Capital Public Radio News: California Drought: State Agency Revises Rules On Grass Kern Golden Empire: Impacts of new groundwater legislation Los Angeles Times: California water board to growers: Stop pumping Stockton Record: Mountain House water source dries up Yahoo Finance: California water fight raises free market issues RT: Liquid treasure: Water […]
Continue ReadingEveryone needs to deal with the drought BY JOHN A. COLEMAN AND KATHY TIEGS Published in The Sacramento Bee, June 15, 2015 There is nothing like an epic drought to get Californians talking about water. Wherever you go these days, people are discussing the latest news on water restrictions and sharing advice for reducing use over […]
Continue ReadingACWA Outreach Alert June 15, 2015 Letters, Calls Needed on Trailer Bill to Restructure Drinking Water Program Fees Opposition Letters Needed to Stop Proposal That Would Repeal Existing Safeguards ACWA is working with a coalition of public water agencies and investor-owned water utilities to stop budget trailer bill language that would restructure the current […]
Continue ReadingClick here to view a complete listing of job opportunities with East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) as of June 15, 2015.
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