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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 permanent ban in California falls in line with the governor’s goals around stretching the state’s water supply, including converting 500 million square feet of ornamental turf to climate ...
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the federal government to override the state of California's water-management practices to bolster firefighting efforts.
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 ...
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 ...
California legislators passed a water-saving bill banning the use of drinking water on decorative grass outside businesses and along streets. California is moving to outlaw watering some grass ...
California has had a long history of complex water rights dealing with the ownership and management of surface water. Groundwater has stayed under the regulation radar, which led to the overdraft of vital basins and the subsidence of land taking place throughout the Central Valley .
The Water Conservation Act of 2009 (also known as Senate Bill X7-7 or SB X7-7 [1]) is a California state law that requires the state to reduce urban water consumption by 20% by the year 2020. It originated as a bill written by Democratic Senator Darrell Steinberg and was enacted on November 10, 2009. [ 1 ]