Tag: drinking water
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Sen. Alex Padilla focuses on water affordability in hearing
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., convened his first hearing as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, on Wednesday. Sen. Padilla appeared on the KCRA News morning show on My58 and said the hearing will focus on how rising water rates, aging infrastructure and extreme weather events have…
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California Assembly advances bill to eliminate lead from school drinking water
New test data shows alarming levels at childcare centers SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today the California State Assembly handily passed a bill aimed at removing all lead from drinking and cooking water used in schools. If passed, it would help protect young children from lead’s serious health harms. The legislation, Assembly Bill 249, now heads to…
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Upper Colorado River States Add Muscle as Decisions Loom on the Shrinking River’s Future
Flows in the White River (pictured above) and other tributaries of the upper Colorado River have declined dramatically and contributed to the precipitous declines of Lake Powell and Lake Mead. (Source: The Water Desk) The states of the Lower Colorado River Basin have traditionally played an oversized role in tapping the lifeline that supplies 40…
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Water board finds new culprit for cancer-causing chemical released in SLO. What’s next?
Photo: Greg Mortka, left and Mark Nishibayashi install a passive soil gas probe near the airport fire station. Areas of the SLO airport were tested July 26, 2016 for TCE [trichloroethylene] in an effort to determine a source of contamination, hundreds of soil probes collected data. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com It has been nearly three years…
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Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act
Photo: The Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada is showing a “bathtub ring” because of drought.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times The Interior Department last summer dropped a bomb on the seven states that depend upon the Colorado River for water. It declared an emergency over the two-decade drought that was parching the West and instructed these…
