Freshly cut off from their chief water supply, a group of California water agencies in one of the state’s most fertile farming areas sued on Wednesday to freeze the latest round of emergency drought rules. In a lawsuit filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, the suppliers argue they were denied due process when state regulators […]
Last week, the State Water Board finally intervened in the unincorporated area of Tooleville’s 20-year struggle to obtain the basic human right to clean drinking water with a letter to the city of Exeter and the Tooleville Mutual Nonprofit Water Association, giving the two parties six months to hash out terms for a voluntary consolidation […]
Monterey County is the only county is California with a law that prohibits private companies from operating new desalination plants. That law, passed in 1989, will be up for a potential repeal when the county’s supervisors meet on Sept. 21. The law has been thrust into the spotlight as Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp., a […]
Trump-era EPA appointees engaged in “considerable political level interference” on an assessment for a controversial “forever chemical,” documents obtained by E&E News indicate. But the Biden administration wasted no time in yanking that document, moving to scrub the assessment of alterations made by political appointees and restore language advocated by EPA career scientists shortly after […]
La Niña, the climate event that causes water to be colder than normal in the eastern Pacific, has now been shown by new research released Monday to be responsible for simultaneous megadroughts in the North and South American Southwest over the past 1,000 years. Megadroughts are extended periods of drought that last at least 20 […]
The Bureau of Reclamation, the agency charged with water resources management for the West at the federal government level, announced unprecedented Tier 1 cuts in water deliveries from Lake Mead on the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico in 2022. The Tier 1 cuts will reduce water deliveries due to historic low water levels in Lake […]
California Water Suppliers Cast 1st Challenge to Strict Drought Rules
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Courthouse News Serviceby Nick CahillFreshly cut off from their chief water supply, a group of California water agencies in one of the state’s most fertile farming areas sued on Wednesday to freeze the latest round of emergency drought rules. In a lawsuit filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, the suppliers argue they were denied due process when state regulators […]
‘Wonderful’: Tooleville Relieved in State’s Force for Water Consolidation
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /The Sun Gazetteby Ben IrwinLast week, the State Water Board finally intervened in the unincorporated area of Tooleville’s 20-year struggle to obtain the basic human right to clean drinking water with a letter to the city of Exeter and the Tooleville Mutual Nonprofit Water Association, giving the two parties six months to hash out terms for a voluntary consolidation […]
Repeal of County Law Prohibiting Private Operation of Desal Plants Set for Sept. 21 Discussion
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Monterey County Weeklyby Christopher NeelyMonterey County is the only county is California with a law that prohibits private companies from operating new desalination plants. That law, passed in 1989, will be up for a potential repeal when the county’s supervisors meet on Sept. 21. The law has been thrust into the spotlight as Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp., a […]
How Biden’s Team Rushed to Dump a Trump-era PFAS Assessment
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /E&E Newsby E.A. CrundenTrump-era EPA appointees engaged in “considerable political level interference” on an assessment for a controversial “forever chemical,” documents obtained by E&E News indicate. But the Biden administration wasted no time in yanking that document, moving to scrub the assessment of alterations made by political appointees and restore language advocated by EPA career scientists shortly after […]
La Niña Responsible for Megadroughts in North and South America, Study Finds
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Courthouse News Serviceby Jon PartonLa Niña, the climate event that causes water to be colder than normal in the eastern Pacific, has now been shown by new research released Monday to be responsible for simultaneous megadroughts in the North and South American Southwest over the past 1,000 years. Megadroughts are extended periods of drought that last at least 20 […]
Why Water Cuts Are Coming to Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Bloomberg Lawby Cordie QualleThe Bureau of Reclamation, the agency charged with water resources management for the West at the federal government level, announced unprecedented Tier 1 cuts in water deliveries from Lake Mead on the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico in 2022. The Tier 1 cuts will reduce water deliveries due to historic low water levels in Lake […]