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Accusations and Denials Arise Over Bond Sale Plans for Delta Tunnel

November 5, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /The Independentby Ron McNicoll

A declaration suit filed in Superior Court in Sacramento by attorneys for some of the leading environmental groups in America accuses the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) of trying to prevent anyone in California from filing a court action challenging the bonds after the bond sales are underway. Referring to the DWR’s court filing in August, the environmental groups’ Oct. 29 suit says it amounts to the DWR writing a “blank check” to finance the project.

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Opinion: Non-Revenue Water – An Opportunity for Water Utilities, Now More than Ever

November 3, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Kimberlyn Velasquez /Water Finance & Managementby Travis Smith

It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the water industry. Revenue shortfalls from a decline in commercial and industrial water use and some residential customers struggling to pay bills are affecting utilities across the country. The service must go on, but in some cases the revenue lags. Conservative estimates from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies suggest the industry as a whole is expected to lose at least $12.5 billion due to the coronavirus when all is said and done.

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Quality of Life Dashboard for San Diego County Highlights Water Use

November 2, 2020/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Water News Networkby Ed Joyce Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

Water use in the San Diego region was one of the positive trends in the 2020 Quality of Life Dashboard report released today by the Equinox Project. The Quality of Life Dashboard measures and benchmarks environmental and economic trends throughout the region. Half of the 16 indicators used to measure San Diego County’s quality of life were either positive or neutral in 2019.

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Opinion: Delta Tunnel Project Would Secure California’s Water Future

November 2, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /CalMattersby Jennifer Pierre

The Delta Conveyance Project is a necessary investment to secure California’s water future. Let’s face it, our climate is changing rapidly and becoming more unpredictable – wildfires are larger and more frequent, the seas are rising, droughts are lasting longer and storms are fiercer. The need for this project has never been clearer.

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DWP Begins Environmental Review of Grant Lake Reservoir Spillway Project

October 30, 2020/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /NBCLAby City News Service

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials Friday announced the beginning of the environmental review process of a project that would control water flow from Grant Lake Reservoir in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

DWP officials said the undertaking of a new spillway gate structure to control flow from the lake through Rush Creek and into Mono Lake will be one of the largest environmental restoration projects in the Mono Basin.

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California Slammed Over ‘Blank Check’ for Delta Tunnel Project

October 29, 2020/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Courthouse News Serviceby Nick Cahill

Lobbing another hurdle at California’s $16 billion plan to tunnel underneath the West Coast’s largest estuary, environmentalists on Thursday sued to freeze public funding for the megaproject championed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

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Pipes Could Release Toxic Chromium Into Tap Water

October 28, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Chemical & Engineering Newsby Janet Pelley

Hexavalent chromium is a carcinogen that was made famous by the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” which dramatized a case of industrial pollution that contaminated water supplies in California. A new study shows that Cr(VI) can slip into drinking water when commonly used chlorine disinfectants corrode cast iron water distribution pipes.

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Pure Water San Diego Launches Guided Virtual Tour

October 27, 2020/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Water News Network

The City of San Diego’s Pure Water Demonstration Facility public tour is now available as a virtual tour. A new video provides an up-close look at the technology behind the water purification plant. In-person tours are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic and will resume once it is safe to do so. Since opening in June 2011, nearly 19,000 people have toured the one-million-gallon-per-day facility in person.

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Disasters Waiting to Happen: 5 Major Infrastructure Projects in Need of Repair

October 27, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Construction Diveby Kim Slowey

There’s nothing quite like an infrastructure disaster to get the American public’s attention, whether it is the discovery of a drinking water system with dangerous levels of lead in Flint, Michigan, or a near-catastrophic dam failure in Oroville, California.

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Testing in an Effort to Flush Out the Coronavirus

October 27, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /NPRby Elissa Nadworny

Twice a week, mathematics professor Andrea Bruder squats in the sewage tunnels below South Hall, a mostly freshman dorm at Colorado College. She wears head-to-toe protective gear and holds a plastic ladle in one hand and a to-go coffee cup in the other. Bruder hovers above an opening in a large metal pipe and patiently waits for a student to flush.

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