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SJW Group ("SJW") is a water utility processing, distribution, wholesale and retail company based in San Jose, California.It serves 228,000 connections that serves over 1 million residents in regions of California, and approximately 17,000 connections, which serves about 60,000 people in Texas.
San Jose Water was also the recipient of four prestigious public outreach awards. SAN JOSE, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-San Jose Water ("SJW" or "the Company"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SJW Group ...
California Water Service, commonly known as Cal Water, is an American company providing drinking water and wastewater services to a number of regions within the state of California. It was founded in 1926 and is based in San Jose, California , and provides service across multiple local districts, reaching more than 484,900 customers.
WATER RESTRICTIONS: With the new rules in San Jose, lawn watering is now limited to two days per week, no more than 15 minutes at a time and not between the hours of 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California.
In 1916-1934 there was a drought due to lack of rainfall; this coupled with excessive water withdrawal dropped the average water level in wells in the Santa Clara Water District by 108 feet. [2] Excessive water consumption over many years has led to groundwater drops of more than 200 feet in some areas. [ 4 ]
In the 1880s, San Jose built a simple sewage disposal system that discharged untreated wastewater directly into the San Francisco Bay. It was the largest sewage disposal system in the South Bay, with enough capacity for 250,000 people despite a population under 15,000, in order to discharge organic waste from the city's many fruit canneries.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act is a bill that tries to address the severe California drought.The bill would change some environmental regulations and stop or delay a project designed to restore a dried up section of the San Joaquin River (a habitat for some salmon). [1]