When the highest stakes water negotiations in a century opened this fall, the largest, most powerful state — California — was represented by the youngest person at the table, a 27-year-old named John Brooks Hamby, who graduated from college barely four years ago.
The San Vicente Dam Raise Project has secured the 5th International Commission on Large Dams International Milestone Award for Roller Compacted Concrete Dam, the San Diego County Water Authority has announced.
Water is the lifeblood of California, and the state has always faced unique challenges in managing its precious water resources.
A proposal to build a project to capture water in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during wet weather and make it available in drier areas is advancing as state officials anticipate losing 10% of its water supply by 2040 as a result of hotter temperatures.
California water regulators are poised to approve long-awaited rules that will allow local water agencies to convert sewage — such as what drains from toilets and showers — directly into drinking water.
After steadily climbing all year, Lake Mead’s water levels have hit an unexpected milestone.
In the face of heavy opposition from environmental groups, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration are pushing forward with a controversial plan to build a 45-mile water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — a project the governor says is vital to modernizing the state’s aging water system.
A top White House national security official said recent cyber attacks by Iranian hackers on U.S. water authorities — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks on the health care industry — should be seen as a call to action by utilities and industry to tighten cybersecurity.
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded more than $3 million in grants to three San Diego County tribes to build and upgrade their solid waste and recycling infrastructure.
The San Diego County Water Authority this week received a prestigious international engineering award for using an innovative construction technology to raise the historic San Vicente Dam – a project that helps ensure regional water security for generations to come.
