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California Schools Can Now Ask Water Supplier To Test For Lead On Campus

/in /by /Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)by Rich Ibarra

California schools can now ask their water supplier to test for lead on campus. This affects any school from kindergarten through 12th grade, both public and private. Flint, Michigan served as a warning to everyone on the dangers of lead in the water system. Starting this year, California schools can request their water agency to test their water on site at no cost. California Water Service covers most of the state including customers in Stockton, Dixon and Marysville.

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Despite Drenching, Santa Barbara Still In ‘Extreme’ Drought

/in /by /Santa Barbara Independentby Nick Welsh

The good news is that rainfall year to date is now slightly above average at Lake Cachuma, which typically supplies half the water needs for South Coast residents. The bad news is that Santa Barbara County remains in the throes of what federal meteorologists describe as “extreme drought conditions.” Only two percent of the California land mass now fits that category and Lake Cachuma qualifies as the most distressed reservoir in California.

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Drought’s Back Broken — Or Not?

/in /by /Capitol Weekly (Sacramento)by Lisa Renner

Despite the torrential rains of the last few weeks, experts say it’s too early to tell whether California’s interminable drought is really over. It will be necessary to monitor rainfall through at least March to make an assessment. California has been in a drought since 2012. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought state of emergency in January 2014 after the state experienced record dry conditions.

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VIDEO: Central Basin MWD Special Meeting On Delta Tunnels Benefits & Costs

/in /by /Restore The Delta (Stockton)

In case you missed it, we traveled to East Los Angeles to present our side at the Central Basin Municipal Water District Special Meeting on California WaterFix.

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Should California Drought Rules Be Lifted? State Ponders Question As Storms Roll In

/in /by /The Sacramento Beeby Dale Kasler

With rivers roaring and more rain coming, California’s drought cops are wrestling with a complicated question: Should they keep patrolling the beat? A chorus of urban water districts Wednesday urged the State Water Resources Control Board, California’s chief drought regulator, to allow the state’s emergency conservation rules to expire. At a lengthy hearing in Sacramento, representatives of the water districts said the state board is losing credibility by insisting the drought still exists when residents can see how much conditions have eased.

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Drought-To-Drenched California Faces H20 Balancing Act

/in /by /Bloomberg by Brian K. Sullivan and Jeff WIlson

Rain has finally been falling hard in California, where reservoirs are filling up fast. After six years of punishing drought, that’s obviously a good thing. But it creates a balancing-act challenge for the state’s water managers. Keep too much holed up in storage and the system will overflow if the precipitation keeps coming. Open the hatches too much and, if Mother Nature doesn’t provide any more deluges, California will be parched when the rain stops.

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Rain, Water Release From Shasta Dam Expected This Week

/in /by /Redding Record Searchlightby Nathan Solis

Blue skies will give way to storm clouds, gusty winds and snow this week as storms arrive in Northern California. The three storms will not bring as much rain as last week’s series of storms, according to the National Weather Service, but additional runoff is expected to flow into the Sacramento River and other streams and creeks. In total, over the next seven days the North State could see 6 to 8 inches of rain.

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K-12 Schools Now Have Access To Free Water Testing For Lead

/in /by /BakersfieldNow.comby Kahtia Hall

All K-12 schools across the state now have the opportunity to get their water checked for lead by their water department. It’s a push by the State Water Resources Control Board to make sure all California schools have access to safe drinking water. “Everybody saw what happened back east. I think that’s where a lot of the concerns are, but we have a lot of things in place from preventing any of that from happening to us,” said Mike Mares, District Manager with California Water Services.

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California Water Service to Monitor for Lead and Copper in Schools Within Service Areas

/in /by /Yahoo

As part of its commitment to water quality, California Water Service (Cal Water), the largest subsidiary of California Water Service Group ( NYSE : CWT ), announced today that it is finalizing plans to test for lead in water in schools within its service areas. The announcement follows the release of new guidelines for lead testing in schools by the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Drinking Water (DDW) earlier today.

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California’s Tough Water Regulations Likely To Remain In Place

/in /by /SFGate (San Francisco)by Kurtis Alexander

Despite a wet winter that has much of California emerging from drought, state officials are showing no sign that they’ll ease up on water regulations imposed on cities and towns over the past three years. Staffers at the State Water Resources Control Board sent a proposal Tuesday to the agency’s governing board recommending renewal of emergency drought mandates that have required urban suppliers to put specific quantities of water in reserve, or cut consumption, under the threat of fines.

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