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Rainbow Water Authorizes Grant Application for Brackish Water Desalination

/in /by /Fallbrook and Bonsall Village News Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The Rainbow Municipal Water District will be seeking a grant from the state Department of Water Resources for a feasibility study on brackish groundwater desalination in the Bonsall Basin of the San Luis Rey River. The water district board voted 5-0, Aug. 22, to approve the application of a grant to DWR along with execution of any agreement if the grant is approved. The grant would offset the cost of the Bonsall Basin desalination feasibility study. “We think we’re in good shape to hopefully receive these funds,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy said.

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Pros Or Cons Toward Desalinization In OC?

/in /by /Los Alamitos Patch Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

A Huntington Beach desalinization proposal is still in the works, and according to the group, “Poseidon is committed to powering, building and operating the Huntington Beach desalination facility in the most environmentally beneficial way possible — along with bringing significant economic benefits to the region and the state,” a Wednesday statement from Poseidon Water Vice President Scott Maloni said. “We are taking unprecedented steps to protect California’s environment and ensure the project is 100% carbon-neutral and that it is the most energy-efficient large-scale desalination facility in the world.”

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Humboldt County Records Highest Rainfall on Record Since 1903-04

/in /by /Eureka Times-Standardby Will Houston

Humboldt County recorded its third highest rainfall total in the 2016-17 water year since records first began 130 years ago, according to the National Weather Service Eureka. The downpour caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to local infrastructure and seemingly failed to produce the beneficial effects to fish and wildlife on the Klamath River that some were hoping for. Nearly 64 inches of rain were recorded at the weather service’s Woodley Island station from the start of the water year on Oct. 1, 2016, through Wednesday.

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This Snap-On Sensor Could Tell Farmers Exactly How Much To Water Their Crops

/in /by /Smithsonian.comby Nathan Hurst

The system, for which the Penn State Research Foundation has applied for an international patent, features a clip-on unit that contains sensors to detect the thickness and electrical capacitance, or the ability to store a charge, of individual leaves. The array of sensors is connected to a WiFi node, which transmits the data to a central unit that tracks the measurements over time and uses them as indicators of water stress. Eventually, a smartphone app could run the whole system.

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BLOG: Whittling Water Worries

/in /by /aNewsCafe.com (Redding)by Courtney Paige Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

In 2015, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on more than $1 billion in spending for water projects. Hundreds of millions of those dollars are allocated for long-term projects associated with flood control, desalination, water recycling, and conservation. One particular project currently in the water works is Southern California’s plan for desalination by turning 50 million gallons of the Pacific Ocean into potable water per day. The plant opened in December of 2015 as the first in the state to tap an ocean for drinking water. More than a dozen other plants in California are in the planning stages.

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Plan to Pump More Water From the Delta Gets Approved

/in /by /The Sacramento Beeby Ryan Sabalow

Federal fisheries regulators have approved a controversial plan opposed by environmental groups that would allow for more pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta this fall. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed off on a proposal championed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and south state California water interests to ramp up Delta pumping starting next week.

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Pioneering Wastewater Treatment Method to be Tested in Rialto

/in /by /The San Bernardino Sunby Jim Steinberg

Officials broke ground Wednesday on a pilot plant to demonstrate a new wastewater treatment technology that promises to save energy, land, water and capital expense over existing technologies. The project is being funded through a $1.56 million grant from the California Energy Commission. The technology was developed by BDPEnviroTech, a Laguna Hills-based company that, by the end 2017, will have more than 30 projects using this technology operational in China, said CEO Eric Li.

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Rate Dispute Between Water Districts Continues After Court Refuses to Intervene

/in /by /Times of San Diegoby Hoa Quach Quoted: Mark Muir

The state Supreme Court Wednesday refused to intervene in an ongoing rate dispute between the San Diego County Water Authority and Metropolitan Water District, leaving in place an appellate decision that gives both sides a partial victory. The Water Authority has sued the MWD, the primary water wholesaler in California, multiple times over costs, which are ultimately absorbed by San Diego County consumers. The California Supreme Court’s decision not to review an appellate court ruling was in one of three lawsuits.

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Water Authority Loses Long-Running Bid Against Arch-Rival to Lower Water Costs

/in /by /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Quoted: Mark Muir

For years, San Diego water officials argued the region’s major supplier of water, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, charges too much to deliver water to San Diego from the Colorado River. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court declined to take up the case, leaving a lower court ruling siding with Metropolitan in place.The Water Authority picked up smaller savings, amounting to an estimated $1.1 billion in the next several decades. But that’s about $6 billion less than it had hoped.

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‘Horizontal Hurricanes’ Pose Increasing Risk for California

/in /by /San Francisco Chronicle

As increasingly intense hurricanes batter the Southeast and the Caribbean, heightening some of the worst fears about a changing climate, California is facing its own threat of bigger and more destructive storms. Mounting research, much of it done in the wake of the near-record rains that pulled California out of a five-year drought this past winter, shows that seasonal soakers may not come as often as they used to, but could pack more punch when they do arrive.

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