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Under the Federal Clean Water Act and the state's pioneering Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act the State Water Board has regulatory authority for protecting the water quality of nearly 1,600,000 acres (6,500 km 2) of lakes, 1,300,000 acres (5,300 km 2) of bays and estuaries, 211,000 miles (340,000 km) of rivers and streams, and about ...
The department was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, where they combined the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board. [1]
The Kern Water Bank is a public-private partnership which oversees a 32-square-mile water recharge basin in California. [1] [2] It sources water from the Kern River, the State Water Project, and the Central Valley Project. [3] It stores underground up to 1.5 million acre feet of water (500 billion gallons). [4]
But water managers and experts have said Southern California’s cities are not currently short of water, pointing out that the region’s reservoirs are at record-high levels following plentiful ...
The Commission would also like to encourage stakeholders in California’s water future to brief the Commission on critical water issues that relate to adapting California’s water system to a ...
The California water board is proposing a ban on watering 'non-functional' grass in some areas. Above, water droplets on grass from a sprinkler in Pasadena. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
The California State Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Planning is the process that promotes bringing together and prioritizing water-related efforts in the region in a systematic way to ensure sustainable water uses, reliable water supplies, better water quality, environmental stewardship, efficient urban development, protection of agriculture, and a strong economy.
The State Water Board, which has not yet had an opportunity to formally respond, will provide information to the EPA “to demonstrate that the board has complied with all civil rights laws ...