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Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest

May 7, 2021

• by Elizabeth Miller

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Columbia Insight, Ensia, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. It was made possible by a grant from The Water Desk, with support from Ensia…

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Public slow to respond to new drinking water program for rural San Joaquin Valley residents

May 6, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting trainee

The state is finally beginning to address a decades-long problem of dangerous drinking water in parts of the San Joaquin Valley under a new “management zone” program but hardly anyone is paying attention. Even the prospect of free water testing and free water hasn’t garnered much enthusiasm. Regardless of the lackluster response, program managers will…

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Some rural California residents doubt they’ll ever get clean water

May 5, 2021

• by Claudia Boyd-Barrett

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Columbia Insight, Ensia, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. It was made possible by a grant from The Water Desk, with support from Ensia…

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Toxic Cyanobacteria Choke Water Systems Around California’s Clear Lake

May 4, 2021

• by Brett Walton

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California Tribes Call Out Degradation of Clear Lake

May 3, 2021

• by Brett Walton

Conservation • Drinking Water • Drought • Groundwater

Students find saving water “elementary”

March 16, 2021

• by Lois Henry

When a region’s groundwater is critically depleted and its dirt as hard as a frying pan, how do you refill the aquifer? Ask a fifth grader. Actually, ask the fifth and sixth grade combination class at Bakersfield’s Munsey Elementary School taught by Barbara Elrod. Elrod’s students discovered a pretty cool way to both conserve water…

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Clean water plans need more public involvement, activists say

January 13, 2021

• by Lois Henry

The stage is finally set for years of talking to be translated into actual clean drinking water for potentially thousands of San Joaquin Valley residents. But activists fear the effort will flop before the curtain rises if more isn’t done to engage the people who are drinking that water. The issue is nitrate, which is …

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COVID-19 relief includes money for water bill debt. Will it be enough?

January 12, 2021

• by Lois Henry

The COVID-19 relief bill passed last month includes $638 million to address the growing issue of water bill debt across the nation. When the pandemic dug in last spring, many states, including California, issued moratoriums on household water shut offs for lack of payment. That moratorium is still in place in California and water debt…

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FREE! water quality testing for domestic well owners

October 21, 2020

• by Lois Henry

The U.S. Geological Survey is sampling in the Modesto, Turlock, and Merced area. For more information visit go.usa.gov/xfA85 or contact Jen Shelton at jshelton@usgs.gov or (916) 278-3068. Para informacion en espanol, llame a Robert Kent, (619) 436-8285….

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Last minute loan keeps drinking water projects afloat

September 22, 2020

• by Lois Henry

Small, failing drinking water systems got a funding life preserver among a flurry of budget bills at the chaotic end of the California legislative session. Drinking water advocates had fretted the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience (SAFER) program, intended to help struggling water systems in mostly poor, rural areas, would fall victim…

NEWS

Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest

Public slow to respond to new drinking water program for rural San Joaquin Valley residents

Some rural California residents doubt they’ll ever get clean water

Toxic Cyanobacteria Choke Water Systems Around California’s Clear Lake

California Tribes Call Out Degradation of Clear Lake

Students find saving water “elementary”

Clean water plans need more public involvement, activists say

COVID-19 relief includes money for water bill debt. Will it be enough?

FREE! water quality testing for domestic well owners

Last minute loan keeps drinking water projects afloat

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