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The latest news and analysis covering water issues in Caliornia and the rest of the United States.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
Feds Can’t Duck Claims Of Shoddy Review For Desert Water Pipeline
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Courthouse News Service (Pasadena, Calif.)by Martin Macias Jr.A federal judge indicated Thursday he will advance conservation groups’ claims that a proposed 43-mile groundwater pipeline in a Southern California desert was approved abruptly and without proper environmental review by a federal agency. The Cadiz groundwater pipeline project would move nearly 45 million gallons of water daily for 50 years from an underground aquifer […]
IID Board Hears Plans To Pipe QSA Water Directly To San Diego
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Desert Review (Brawley, Calif.)by Betty Miller Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityAfter false starts and real stops, the San Diego County Water Authority is once again trying to make inroads into taking their QSA transferred water directly from the Imperial Valley, bypassing its current deliverer, the Metropolitan Water District. Dan Denham, assistant general manager of the SDCWA, proposed several pipeline scenarios for QSA-conserved water at the […]
DWR Gives $10 Million Grant To Monterey Peninsula Desalination Project
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KSBW 8 (Salinas, Calif.)by Josh CopitchThe California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced they will provide a $10 million grant to public utility, California American Water. The grant money is destined to help build the seawater desalination component of the Peninsula Water Supply Project. “We are extremely grateful to DWR for supporting our project,” said California American Water president Rich […]
Becerra On Trump Administration’s New Rule For Coal-Fired Power Plants: They’re ‘Backsliding’
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KQED News (Sacramento)The Trump administration has rolled back a landmark Obama-era rule that sought to wean the nation’s electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. Its replacement gives individual states wide discretion to decide whether to require limited efficiency upgrades at individual coal-fired power plants. Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler calls it a […]
Newsom Catches Heat For Using Climate Funds On Drinking Water Plan
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KQED News (Sacramento)by Kevin StarkCalifornia lawmakers are poised to fund the cleanup of dirty drinking water in the state’s poorest communities — a problem most everyone agrees needs to be addressed. Not everyone, however, agrees on where the money should come from to pay for it.The issue? The Legislature wants to use revenue from California’s cap-and-trade climate change program, […]
Groundwater Pumping Has Significantly Reduced US Stream Flows
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Phys.Orgby University of ArizonaGroundwater pumping in the last century has contributed as much as 50 percent to stream flow declines in some U.S. rivers, according to new research led by a University of Arizona hydrologist. The new study has important implications for managing U.S. water resources. Laws regulating the use of groundwater and surface waters differ from state […]