CBS News: $3 billion Hoover Dam project hopes to bring power plant into 21st century Mercury News: New water tanks help douse community’s wildfire fears Sierra Sun: Tahoe’s water inspection program celebrates a decade with no new invasive species Redding Record Searchlight: Work begins on raising the height of Shasta Dam The Press: Restore the […]
Continue ReadingCBS Sacramento: Wet Weather Heading to Sacramento, Fire Danger Remains High CBS Sacramento: Oroville Dam Work Spillway Work On Target To Meet Nov. 1 Deadline Lake County News: CDFW issues reminders for salmon anglers in the Central Valley Patch: PG&E Installs 100 Weather Stations To Predict Wildfires Kern Valley Sun: Proposition 3 to fund water infrastructure Imperial […]
Continue ReadingNews Deeply: California’s Largest New Reservoir Likely to Face Water-Access Limits The Atlantic: Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change Pasadena Now: Pasadena Assemblymember’s Bill to Protect Children from Lead in Drinking Water Signed by Governor NPR: Year-Round Fire Season Means Always Living ‘Evacuation Ready’ Herald and News: Bids for dam removal out to contractors […]
Continue ReadingThe Weather Channel: National Parks Warming Twice as Fast as Rest of Country, Study Says The Union: Ten years of fighting aquatic invasive species at Lake Tahoe San Francisco Chronicle: Dangerous fire conditions spark red flag warnings across Northern California Fort Bragg Advocate-News: Salmon feeding ground on Ten Mile River is a ‘win-win’ Action News […]
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Chronicle: $823 million, 31 billion-gallon Calaveras Reservoir dam ready for debut Sierra Sun Times: Economic Analysis Shows Value of Investing in WaterFix: California Water Users Will See Benefits Far Exceeding Costs, DWR Reports Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles reduces Eastern Sierra water deliveries because of climate change. At risk, ranchers say, is a […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: 87 days of smog: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades Lake County News: Governor signs bill to cut red tape and implement quagga and zebra mussel inspection programs News Deeply: Hoover Dam as Giant Battery? The Hurdles Are More Legal Than Technical San Gabriel Valley Tribune: […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: Local water officials discuss 50-year extension of State Water Project contract Sacramento Bee: Mendocino Complex, biggest wildfire in California history, now 100 percent contained Chico Enterprise-Record: Bill to form Oroville Dam citizens advisory commission signed into law Transport Topics News; ASCE Gives California’s Kern County C on Infrastructure Times of San Diego: […]
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Continue ReadingThe House this afternoon easily approved water infrastructure legislation by voice vote. The “America’s Water Infrastructure Act,” S. 3021, would authorize numerous port revitalization, flood control and water storage projects. It would also ask the National Academy of Sciences to study moving the Army Corps of Engineers out of the Defense Department, and would […]
Continue ReadingNews Deeply: Monsoon Storms, Key to Recharging Groundwater, May Become Less Common KQED: Climate Summit: What Happened and What It Means ABC 30: Mayor says new water plant makes Fresno “drought proof” AgAlert: Federal water bill aims to smooth project funding Mercury News: OPINION: How expediency has backfired in California with dam, schools, taxes… Turlock […]
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