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Domestic drinking water. All domestic water comes from the aquifer/groundwater basin beneath the valley floor ranging from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea and has an estimated capacity of 39.2 million acre feet (an acre foot = 325,851 gallons) down to 1,000 feet (300 m) as determined by the U. S. Geological Survey. Agricultural Irrigation.
In March, California’s State Water Project announced that after a promising start to the state’s rainy season, the bone-dry first few months of 2022 meant it would limit its anticipated ...
The water restrictions are set to take effect June 1 and are aimed at reducing water use by about 35%. Esquivel said the increased aridity that California faces requires a transition ...
Restaurants, stores and other property owners will be banned from using drinking water to irrigate their lawns under a new California law. Assembly Bill 1572 requires business owners, public ...
The Whitewater River in the dry fall of 2020, looking upstream from Date Palm Drive in Cathedral City toward Banning Pass and the Palm Springs International Airport with a plane on final approach. The Whitewater River is a small permanent stream in western Riverside County, California, with some upstream tributaries in southwestern San ...
For the first time ever, Southern California water officials will limit outdoor watering to just once a week in certain areas beginning June 1.
AB 1739 gives the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) or a groundwater sustainability agency (GSA) the authority to establish fees (detailed in SB 1168) and offer support to "entities that extract or use groundwater to promote water conservation and protect groundwater resources". GSAs are locally controlled organizations in ...
FILE - A sprinkler waters the lawn of a home on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in Santa Ana, Calif. T On Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, the Metropolitan Water District declared a regional drought emergency for ...