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As general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Hagekhalil is responsible for ensuring water for 19 million people, leading the nation’s largest wholesale supplier ...
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a wholesaler for 26 regional agencies, sells treated water at roughly $1,200 per acre-foot, Mitchell said. (An acre-foot is approximately ...
The Biden administration has adopted new rules for operating California’s main water delivery systems in the Central Valley, endorsing a plan backed by state officials that aims to strike a ...
The California Water Plan (Water Plan) is the State of California’s long-term strategic plan for managing and developing water resources throughout the state. The Water Plan is mandated by California Water Code Sections 10004–10013, [ 1 ] and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is required to update the plan every five years ...
In 2012 the Institute produced a new book A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy published by Oxford University Press. [7] The Institute's Water and Conflict Chronology tracks water-related conflicts since 2500 BC. Peter Gleick co-founded the institute in 1987 and directed it until mid-2016. Gleick is now president emeritus and Senior Fellow, having ...
Fortunately, Senate Bill 366, authored by Sen. Anna Caballero, D-Merced, would provide exactly that by setting an initial water supply target for California of 9 million acre-feet of additional ...
The crisis has cast a harsh light on the state's ability to provide clean and affordable drinking water to all its residents, particularly those in the Central Valley, where widespread ...
The California water wars were among the subjects discussed in Cadillac Desert, a 1984 nonfiction book by Marc Reisner about land development and water policy in the western United States. The book was made into a four-part documentary of the same name in 1997.