California Needs More Storms, Groundwater To Avoid Prolonged Drought, Experts Say Listen
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Sean de Guzman, chief of snow surveys for the California Department of Water Resources, measures the depth of the snowpack during the second snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.
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Northern California was walloped at the end of January by the winter’s first big storm, which poured heavy rain and loads of snow across the region. That was great for the snowpack in the Sierra, which supplies around a third of California’s water needs.
Co-Digesting Food Waste With Wastewater Solids To Produce Energy
By Rashi Gupta
Inspired in part by California’s Senate Bill 1383, which was enacted to reduce organic waste and methane emissions, co-digestion is fulfilling those goals while converting wastewater treatment plants into water resource recovery facilities.
With each passing year, the effects of climate change become harder to ignore. The U.S. West Coast has borne the brunt of many such effects: Scientists continue to connect drier, windier, and warmer climates to the ever-increasing number of wildfires observed, especially in California. In the past year alone, the state experienced over 9,200 wildfire events that ravaged close to 4.2 million acres of land 26 times the total acreage burned in 2019 prompting Governor Gavin Newsom to describe the devastation as a “climate damn emergency.”
Friday, January 29, 2021
FERC Proposes Financial Assurance Measures for Hydropower Licensees
On January 19, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) inviting comments on whether FERC should require financial assurance measures in hydropower licenses and other authorizations. Triggered by recent public safety events, the NOI explains that a number of hydropower projects are non-operational or out of compliance with the license and the licensees cannot afford to address environmental or safety issues to meet FERC’s standards. Based on concerns that inadequate financing may result in threats to public safety and environmental resources, FERC seeks comments on whether additional measures should be required to ensure hydropower operators have the financial resources needed to operate and maintain their projects over the license term, including under unforeseen circumstances.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) At its meeting today, the California Water Service Group (NYSE:CWT) Board of Directors declared the company s 304
th consecutive quarterly dividend, increasing the annual dividend by $0.07, or 8.2%, from $0.85 to $0.92. This represents the company s 54th consecutive annual dividend increase. The quarterly dividend of $0.23 per common share will be payable on February 19, 2021 to stockholders of record on February 8, 2021.
California Water Service Group is the parent company of California Water Service, Washington Water Service, New Mexico Water Service, Hawaii Water Service, Inc., CWS Utility Services, and HWS Utility Services. Together, these companies provide regulated and non-regulated water service to approximately 2 million people in more than 100 California, Washington, New Mexico, and Hawaii communities. California Water Service Group s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CWT. Ad
SCV Water Seeks Public Input On Removal of Hazardous Material In Water Wells
The Santa Clarita Water Agency (SCV Water) is asking for the public’s input on the Engineering Evaluation Cost Analysis (EE/CA) of removing perchlorate and volatile substances from the Saugus Formation Aquifer, officials said Tuesday.
As part of this effort, SCV Water is seeking input on the removal of these substances during a 30-day public comment period from Jan. 26 to Feb. 24, 2021, according to officials.
The public is invited to review and comment on the EE/CA, which is dated January 2021 regarding SCV Water’s proposed Non-Time Critical Removal Action (NTCRA) for the Saugus Formation Aquifer and the associated Community Involvement Plan (CIP), according to officials.