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Detecting Leaks With Satellite Imagery

Water utilities across the country struggle with aging infrastructure that results in water loss from leaks. The cost to rehabilitate or replace pipe often is greater than the cost of repairing leaks. Utilities tend to wait for customer-generated work orders before acting. This typically occurs when a leak surfaces after a long-standing period of water loss and possible infrastructure damage has occurred.

In an Era of Extreme Weather, Concerns Grow Over Dam Safety

It is a telling illustration of the precarious state of United States dams that the near-collapse in February 2017 of Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, occurred in California, considered one of the nation’s leading states in dam safety management.

PG&E’s Planned Power Shutdowns Could Choke Off Vital Water Supplies

It could also mean limited use of toilets and taps, an inconvenience that water and sewer districts across the state are scrambling to address before a blackout comes and nature calls.

Never Mind Those Earthquakes: Atmospheric Rivers Could Put Sacramento 30 Feet Under Water

The biggest freshwater rivers on Earth don’t flow along the planet’s surface. Instead, they surge and whip through the atmosphere thousands of feet above our heads, carrying 2½ times the amount of water that gushes through the Amazon River at any given time. They’re called atmospheric rivers, or, more aptly, rivers in the sky. These rivers are capable of burying Sacramento under 30 feet of water.

Few of Trump’s Environmental Claims Stand Up To Scrutiny

President Trump on Monday held himself out as a leader in the fight to protect America’s air and water, despite two years of policies that have weakened environmental regulations.

California Groundwater Program Could Help Farmers

A California water district developed a groundwater trading project that could help farmers in the area with state restrictions for over pumping groundwater aquifers.

California Senate Approves Clean Drinking Water Fund

The California Senate on Monday sent legislation to Gov Gavin Newsom’s desk that will spend $130 million a year over the next decade to improve drinking water for about a million people.

OPINION: Believe It or Not, Colorado Will Soon Become a Waterless Desert… Part Ten

We haven’t published many ten-part editorials in the Daily Post over the past 15 years. But we also don’t come across many political issues — local, state, or national — as complicated or as perplexing as the declining lake levels in the two largest reservoirs situated on the Colorado River: Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

Market-based Program Would Encourage Farmers to Buy, Sell Local Groundwater

A local water district is developing a novel, market-based groundwater trading program that, if successful, could be expanded or copied to help Central Valley farmers cope with new state restrictions against over-pumping the region’s aquifers.

No Dam? No Lake! No Lake? No City?

If Robert P. McCulloch had not flown over the beautiful waters of Lake Havasu, there would never have been a Lake Havasu City. But if Parker Dam didn’t exist, there would never have been a Lake Havasu in the first place. It’s a bit like the riddle of the chicken and the egg. That’s all history, as they say, and Lake Havasu was the catalyst that built Lake Havasu City.