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PRESS RELEASE: Racial discrimination complaint names State Water Board as partly to blame for fertilizer contamination in Central Coast drinking wells

Water quality Water rights and water law

March 22, 2024

Press release This week, Latino community groups were joined by Monterey Waterkeeper and the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative...

SJV WATER: North Kern Water District discusses nitrate compliance options

SJV Water

Groundwater News

January 25, 2024

By Lois Henry, SJV Water The main topic at the January 2024 meeting of the North Kern Water District was...

SJV WATER: Domestic wells still going dry in San Joaquin Valley towns as historically low groundwater levels are slow to rebound

SJV Water

Groundwater News

June 8, 2023

By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The small town of Tooleville ran out of water and started receiving water hauled in...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Arsenic Contaminates Private Drinking Water Wells Across the Western Great Basin

Desert Research Institute

Groundwater News

February 21, 2023

A new study maps risk of elevated arsenic levels in groundwater wells across Northern Nevada, Northeastern California, and Western Utah...

STATELINE: Climate Change is Pushing Toxic Chemicals into Drinking Wells

Stateline

Groundwater News Water quality Wildfires and watersheds

April 28, 2022

By Erika Bolstad, Stateline Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires...

CAL MATTERS: What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

November 21, 2021

By Rebecca Sohn, Cal Matters In the spring of 2013, Jocelyn Walters and her partners moved Nativearth, their small shoe...

AG ALERT: New fertilizer management tools aid desert growers

Ag Alert

Water quality

November 10, 2021

By Bob Johnson, Ag Alert Three years of studies on commercial fields point to the conclusion that many desert region...

CAL MATTERS: An entire California town is without running water — in a heat wave

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

August 3, 2021

A rural Central Valley community is without running water during a heat wave, prompting authorities to haul in bottles and...

PNNL: Ultra-sensitive radiation detectors provide deeper dive into groundwater

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Groundwater News Science

June 26, 2021

Scientists tap PNNL’s rare ability to measure argon-39 for new insights into groundwater Stacie Jones, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Scientists...

CAL MATTERS: What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?

Cal Matters

Water quality

November 19, 2020

By Rebecca Sohn, Cal Matters In the spring of 2013, Jocelyn Walters and her partners moved Nativearth, their small shoe...

CAL MATTERS: For California well owners, clean water is hard to get as state, local hurdles remain

Cal Matters

Groundwater News

February 27, 2020

By Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado, Cal Matters Water is scarce and dirty for many in Fresno County’s small West Park community. They’re...

NEW REPORTS: Water and land use; Building cities to better support biodiversity; Management considerations for protecting groundwater quality; Innovation drives advances in stormwater capture

Maven

Planning and management Reports

October 2, 2019

Water and Land Use From the Local Government Commission: In 2005, the California Legislature passed new laws that enable communities to...

CA AGRICULTURE: A seat at the table for rural drinking water

UC Ag and Natural Resources (UCANR)

Groundwater News Policy and regulation

March 13, 2018

An interview with Adriana Renteria, Regional Water Management Coordinator, Community Water Center The Community Water Center (www.communitywatercenter.org) is a nonprofit...