EPA Awards $388M WIFIA Loan for Innovative Water Project
Water Reuse in San Diego County to Produce Purified Water The demand for drinking water is high in California. Now a loan of $388 million from the [...]
Public Input Requested for San Diego Water Plan
Goal to Dramatically Increase Supply San Diego is seeking input from the public on a new water plan introduced by Mayor Todd Gloria. Under the 2020 Urban Water [...]
SD Water–Scripps Collaboration to Optimize Water Management & Supply
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) is partnering with the renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to better predict atmospheric rivers and optimize water [...]
Not a Threat to CA’s Municipal Water Supply
COVID-19: Not a Threat to CA’s Municipal Water Supply The COVID-19 health emergency has prompted panic buying of bottled water that has emptied store shelves and sown confusion [...]
City of Oceanside Starts $67M Water Purification Project
The City of Oceanside has broken ground on a new $67 million water purification project that positions the city to become the first in San Diego County to [...]
Three SoCal Agencies Receive $12 Million for Water Projects
The Bureau of Reclamation will provide funding to three Southern California communities to help plan, design and construct congressionally authorized Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects. The [...]
Eleven SoCal Water Infrastructure Projects Receive Federal Funds
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation has announced the allocation of $29 million in grants from the WaterSMART Program to aid communities in better conserving water. “Existing [...]
Shaking the Piggy Bank — Monitoring SoCal’s Cash-Rich Special Districts
By Dave Sorem, P.E. ECA Government Affairs Chairman and Southern California Partnership for Jobs Chairman A recent article in the Orange County Register took issue California’s obscure but cash-heavy [...]
$35M Awarded to Six CA Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects
Six water reclamation and reuse projects in California have been awarded a total of $35.3 million by the Bureau of Reclamation’s Title XVI program — and five of [...]
SoCal Water District Invests $3.5M in Future Development
The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California — the entity that delivers water to 26 public agencies and 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, [...]