Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skepticism about fluoride has become a focal point in the debate about whether he’s suitable to run the nation’s health department.
His pledge that the Trump administration would “advise all U.S. systems to remove fluoride from public water” has sparked outcry among dentists and some public health experts who say that fluoridated water is safe and essential for protecting oral health in children.
A board member of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has been censured for making a racist remark about an Arab American employee.
The MWD board of directors voted to censure John Morris, a member representing the city of San Marino, after an investigation found that he used a racist term when he referred to a staff member at a board event last year. The district said the investigation was conducted in response to an anonymous complaint and determined that Morris’ remark violated the MWD’s antidiscrimination policy.
An invasive species in the San Joaquin County Delta is putting water officials on high alert.
Despite its name, the golden mussel isn’t native to the Golden State, but instead to Southeast Asia. Now, some lake boat ramps and launches are closed, to try and keep the invasive species at bay.
Continued funding for a giant underground tunnel that would reroute part of drought-prone California’s water supply was approved by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
The $142 million in funds for pre-construction and planning costs is key to the Delta Conveyance Project, which state officials have described as critical to water supplies and transport around the state due to aging infrastructure and climate change-related shifts in precipitation.
Seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River are ending the year at an impasse in negotiations over the writing of new rules for dealing with chronic water shortages.
Representatives of California and other states who attended an annual Colorado River conference in Las Vegas last week said they remain deadlocked in their talks on long-term plans for reducing water use to prevent the river’s reservoirs from reaching critically low levels.
The country’s biggest water supplier is set to vote tomorrow on whether to fund one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top priorities on water — and he’s not leaving the result up to chance.
Newsom and his top aides are leaning on board members and top staff at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to approve additional funding to plan and permit the Delta Conveyance Project, a version of which has been floating around — first as a canal, then a pair of tunnels — for more than half a century.
A major Southern California water supplier will vote Tuesday on whether to spend millions of dollars to help move forward a project that would tunnel water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Southern California.
Members of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will consider approving $141.6 million for the planning and preconstruction of the Delta Conveyance Project.
The 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River will continue to wait for a long-term plan for its management as negotiations between the seven states in the river basin remain stalled.
An unusual idea floated by the president of the Utah State Senate to get more shares of Colorado River water is intriguing California water officials. Utah’s Department of Natural Resources
An unusual idea floated by the president of the Utah State Senate to get more shares of Colorado River water is intriguing California water officials.
In an interview with FOX 13 News in May, Senate President J. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, proposed a novel idea: “We actually build desalination plants in California and trade them for the Colorado River water.”
