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Supervisors Back East County Water Recycling: 15 Million Gallons Daily

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby City News Service

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Wednesday unanimously approved a service agreement for a major drinking water recycling project in East County.

East County Advanced Water Purification is a regional project that includes the county Sanitation District, Padre Dam Municipal Water District, the city of El Cajon and Helix Water District. Those entities are also part of a joint powers authority, which was formed last November.

The agreement covers the amount of wastewater capacity and financial obligations for the Sanitation District, city of El Cajon and the Padre Dam district.

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Democrats Decry ‘Pandemic of Pollution’ Under Trump’s EPA

/in , /by /AP Newsby Matthew Daly

Democrats on Wednesday blasted the Trump administration’s moves to roll back environmental regulations during the coronavirus crisis, with one senator saying a “pandemic of pollution″ has been released.

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After Coronavirus, Office Workers Might Face Unexpected Health Threats

/in , , /by /The New York Timesby Max Horberry

Stagnant plumbing systems in emptied commercial buildings could put returning employees at risk of Legionnaires’ and other illnesses.

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Opinion: As Recycling Rate Drops, California Should Embrace Innovative Recycling Technologies

/in , /by /Cal Mattersby Tim Shestek

California’s recycling rate has fallen from a peak of 50% to 40%, well short of the 75%-by-2020 goal established by the Legislature, according to a recent report by CalRecycle, the state agency that manages recycling programs.

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Three Signs that Battery Energy Storage is Mainstream Today

/in , , /by /PV Magazineby Paul Dailey

With the inclusion of battery energy storage into new building codes and safety standards, it’s obvious just how mainstream storage is today.

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During the Pandemic, Sequestered SDG&E Grid Operators Living at Work to Keep the Lights On

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union Tribuneby Rob Nikolewski

Transmission system operator Blain Adams is one of 12 employees at San Diego Gas & Electric who has volunteered to take the classification of “essential worker” to the extreme.

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PFAS Limits in Drinking Water to Take More Than a Year, EPA Says

/in , , /by /Bloomberg Lawby Sylvia Carignan

The EPA won’t be able to set drinking water limits for two PFAS chemicals in the next year, agency administrator Andrew Wheeler told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency determined that it’ll set maximum contaminant levels (MCL) for the two chemicals—PFOA and PFOS—in drinking water, but hasn’t proposed what those limits should be.

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California 2020 Owner of the Year: Water District Launches Innovative Recycling Plan

/in , , /by /ENR Californiaby Bruce Buckley

Despite its reputation as a conservative owner, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is piloting a bold new initiative to produce an additional regional water source through its Regional Recycled Water Program, which aims to take treated sanitation water and purify it to produce high-quality drinking water.

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Less Water Could Sustain More Californians If We Make Every Drop Count

/in , , /by /Phys.org (Stanford University)by Edmund L. Andrews

California isn’t running out of water,” says Richard Luthy. “It’s running out of cheap water. But the state can’t keep doing what it’s been doing for the past 100 years.”

Luthy knows. As a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, as well as director of a National Science Foundation center to re-invent urban water supply (known as ReNUWIt), he has spent decades studying the state’s metropolitan areas.

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9 States Sue EPA for ‘Blanket Waiver’ As Nation Fights Pandemic

/in , /by /The Sacramento Beeby Jennifer Bjorhus

Nine states have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for curtailing enforcement of rules on air and water pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the pullback puts the public at even greater risk.

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