From the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board: Documents are now available from the Delta Mercury Control Program’s Workshop for Control Study Entities that was held on 10 September 2020. This meeting was held to bring together Control Study...
The Legislative Analyst’s Office warns California lawmakers to prepare to dispatch emergency drinking water to vulnerable communities, particularly in the...
Harmful algal blooms (or HABs) occur when colonies of algae, under the right conditions, grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds. Every U.S. coastal and Great Lakes state...
By Bob Johnson, Ag Alert California Department of Pesticide Regulation scientists say they are shifting their water-quality efforts toward preventing...
These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of...
The damage to water systems can linger for years. The cost in just one small town: as much as $150 million. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters For more than a month after a wildfire raced through his lakeside community and...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA), requiring local agencies to be formed and groundwater...
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Mongabay In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze...
