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A discrimination complaint filed by Native American tribes and environmental justice groups alleges that California State Water Resources Control Board has failed to protect water quality in the Bay-Delta. The EPA is investigating.
California water officials have proposed a plan to increase the amount of drinking water available by recycling wastewater from the sewage system.
Cascading climate disasters and unjust labor and immigration policies leave undocumented Indigenous farmworkers from Mexico without a safety net.
Hydropower loss during the California drought added 121 million metric tons of carbon emissions over 20 years — about the same as putting 1.3 million more cars on the road.
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the California desert are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater—and communities are beginning to push back.
Advocates are pressuring California state water officials to halt diversions from Mono Lake's tributaries to Los Angeles, which has used a small but significant amount of this clean mountain water for decades.
As a result of the latest Supreme Court ruling, more than half U.S. wetlands could lose protection under the Clean Water Act.
With extreme weather incidents increasing due to climate change, California is now grappling with an atmospheric river that's bringing "bomb cyclone"-level rainfall to our parched landscape — thanks to drought conditions that are several years in the making. And that's a recipe for dangerous flooding.
After rejecting a controversial proposal for a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, the state Coastal Commission has just greenlit another in Dana Point at Doheny State Beach. While environmentalists raised concerns, the commission calls it a well-planned project.
As Southern California goes through an extreme drought, desalination plants have become a bigger part of the conversation. These facilities, however, are controversial, seen by many as harmful to marine ecosystems, too expensive, and too energy intensive compared to other water conservation approaches.
Los Angeles county approved an LA River Master Plan that will develop a variety of projects over the next several years, including a land bank to buy affordable housing along the river. The five supervisors backed the River and Land Bank plans despite environmental and community groups pulling their support for it the day before.
A third year of drought spells less hydropower, more natural gas, and higher electricity prices.