effluent

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Effluent is treated or untreated wastewater from wastewater facilities, stormwater outfalls, industrial outfalls, or other point sources that is discharged into surface waters.

WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 8-13: Pending state subsidence guidelines give Valley water managers sinking feeling; Fallowed fields are fueling California’s dust problem; Trump’s environmental protection budget cuts appear to target San Francisco Bay; Legislative committee rejects Newsom’s plan to fast track Delta water tunnel construction; and more …
DAILY DIGEST, 6/12: Legislative committee rejects Newsom’s plan to fast track Delta tunnel; Pulse flows and progress: Key highlights from the Chino Basin Program; Suisun City Council votes to begin expansion research with California Forever; Federal judge tasks Port of Los Angeles with cleaning up contaminated water; and more …
DAILY DIGEST, 6/4: State Water Board returns Chowchilla Subbasin to DWR’ jurisdiction; Restore the Delta calls for legislative audit of public spending on Delta tunnel project; Spring runoff is older than you think; Colorado River study increases urgency for reduction of water consumption; and more …
DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Trump’s proposed budget would cut a major ecology program; CA’s water crisis: The case for infrastructure investment; Rising seas complicate Los Angeles wildfire rebuilding; Colorado River states ‘just about out of time’; and more …
DAILY DIGEST, 5/5: SGMA creates winners and losers in Central Valley agriculture; SGMA: What are its early impacts?; Hundreds protest razing trees on the American River; Uncovering the toxic soil lurking in L.A.’s burn zones; and more …

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