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Desalination plant is OKd by coastal panel
Less than six months after rejecting a proposal for a major desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved plans for …
Los Angeles is running out of water, and time. Are leaders willing to act?
On a clear afternoon recently, Mayor Eric Garcetti looked down at the Hollywood Reservoir from 1,200 feet in the air. “It’s as low as I …
State water agencies will reduce share of Colorado
With the Colorado River in crisis and reservoir levels continuing to decline, some California water agencies are planning to significantly reduce the amount they take …
Could this ranch-farmworker team help the Valley thrive in drought conditions?
David Villarino-González envisions a day when rural communities finally have clean drinking water, and when crops on farmworker cooperatives thrive through droughts or wet seasons. …
Is racism at root of water crisis in Mississippi capital?
Some in Jackson blame systemic bias for lack of funding for infrastructure in city. By Drew Costley JACKSON, Miss. — Carey Wooten spent nearly seven weeks …
Desalination plant construction underway in Antioch as drought worsens
ANTIOCH – The city of Antioch sits right next to the largest source of fresh water in Northern California. But it’s facing a water supply …
Drought prompts outdoor watering limits, possible fines for 6 million in Southern California
Six agencies within the Metropolitan Water District must reduce usage by 35% About 6 million people in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Ventura counties must …
Southern California water supplier adopts unprecedented rule limiting outdoor irrigation
Edict will limit outdoor watering to one day per week for roughly 6 million people, largely in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys as …
What rainy season? Southern California sees little relief on drought
For much of Southern California, this was another rainy season that wasn’t. Dry, brown hillsides are testament to the fact that virtually the entire region …
It’s not even summer, and California’s two largest reservoirs are at ‘critically low’ levels
At a point in the year when California’s water storage should be at its highest, the state’s two largest reservoirs have already dropped to critically …
‘A race to the bottom’: New bill aims to limit frenzy of well drilling on California farms
In farming areas across the Central Valley, a well-drilling frenzy has accelerated over the last year as growers turn to pumping more groundwater during the …
DWP customers in L.A. face two-day-a-week water restrictions, with eight-minute limit
Nearly 4 million Angelenos will be reduced to two-day-a-week watering restrictions on June 1 under drought rules released by the Los Angeles Department of Water …