State advances nation-leading proposed regulations to convert wastewater to high-quality drinking water From the State Water Resources Control Board Achieving a major milestone in the state’s efforts to maximize the potential of recycled water, the State Water Resources Control Board...
A PNNL scheme to improve small-scale hydrologic infrastructure helps pinpoint local flood risks By Corydon Ireland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
San Diego’s boundary referees tell Water Authority: Let North County go. By MacKenzie Elmer, Voice of San Diego What began as a spat between water districts divorcing each other over San Diego’s rising cost of water is now more like...
By Paul Gosselin, DWR Deputy Director of Sustainable Groundwater Management Some may be asking after this extremely wet water year — how is California progressing towards sustainable groundwater management and efforts to recharge groundwater basins? Local agencies, with state support, have...
USGS estimates at least 45% of tap water could have one or more PFAS Press release from the USGS At least 45% of the nation’s tap water is estimated to have one or more types of the chemicals known as...
By Fletcher Reveley, Undark On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 2022, a massive dust storm rose in the drought-parched Sonoran Desert just southeast of California’s Salton Sea. Wind, gusting at more than 60 miles per hour, whipped the desert floor...