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The source of drinking water in the Coachella Valley is an aquifer from which groundwater is pumped. CVWD serves a population of nearly 320,000 with a total daily demand of 90.4 million gallons. The aquifer lies beneath the valley and ranges from Palm Springs on the north western end and terminates under the Salton Sea at the south eastern end ...
The Coachella Valley's agricultural development is due to irrigation: water was drawn from an underground aquifer created when the valley was under a fresh water lake in the last ice age (over 10,000 years ago); and from the Coachella Canal, a concrete-lined aqueduct built between 1938 and 1948 as a branch of the All-American Canal, which ...
The Coachella Canal is a 122-mile (196 km) aqueduct that conveys Colorado River water for irrigation northwest from the All-American Canal to the Coachella Valley north of the Salton Sea in Riverside County, California. The canal was completed in 1949 and is currently operated by the Coachella Valley Water District.
Four out of six Coachella Valley water districts reduced their water use in August 2022 compared to August 2020.
Managers of the Coachella Valley Water District said they estimate that installing treatment systems for 34 wells that now have chromium-6 levels above the limit will cost about $510 million ...
Five of the six water agencies serving the Coachella Valley reduced their water use in July compared to July 2020.
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...
Water use in the Colorado River region increased by 9% in May 2022 compared to May 2020, while the state's other hydrologic regions saw reductions. In Coachella Valley, water customers still using ...