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The program will offer up to 300 gallons of disinfected water per person per visit, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Grass in office parks, on college campuses or in some...

Grass in office parks, on college campuses or in some California neighborhoods will go brown this summer after state water officials adopted a ban Tuesday on...

Print A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to continue providing historic quantities of irrigation water to lessees of its pasturelands east of Yosemite, despite the agency’s assertion that climate change is making water resources in the Sierra Nevada watershed increasingly unreliable. Alameda County Judge Evelio Grillo’s ruling could have significant implications for water agencies statewide as they face the complex challenges of servicing ratepayers and meetin...

Transcript This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you.  In the United States, environmental, health, and civic groups have sued the federal government, claiming that revised rules for lead in drinking water are not strong enough to protect health. In late December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the rule revisions. According to MLive, th...

As Californians Rack Up $1 Billion in Water Debt, Advocates Fear Relief Could Come Too Late Listen   Nicolas COMTE / Unsplash Californians have accumulated $1 billion in unpaid water bills since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and about 1.6 million California households are behind on their water bills, according to a new survey from the State Water Resources Control Board. A statewide water shutoff moratorium has kept water running sinc...

Water crisis looms as California households struggle to pay bills By Kurtis Alexander Unpaid water bills are piling up across California as the pandemic continues to rage, leaving water agencies out hundreds of millions of dollars and nearly 1 in 8 families with rising debt — and worse, a possible water shut-off. In the Bay Area alone, tens of thousands of households have missed a water payment recently. San Francisco reported more than three times as many delinquent water cus...

A statewide survey indicates that low-income households and communities of color are most affected by overdue water bills that have climbed during the pandemic, further hurting those who were already in financial distress. Belan Ruia makes every drop of water count as she washes dishes in April 2015 in her East Porterville, California, home. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue Household water-bill debt in California has soared in the wake of the coronavirus pa...