Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
California's new rules would let — but not require — water agencies take wastewater, treat it, and then put it right back into the drinking water system. California would be just the second ...
The Metropolitan Water District plans to start direct potable reuse as part of its Pure Water Southern California project, building a $6-billion facility in Carson that is slated to become the ...
In the complaint, the city accuses the base of taking “no action to stop or even mitigate the ongoing migration of its PFAS contamination into the city’s wellfield and water supply,” even as ...
The loss of pressure can affect not only water quality but also water availability for firefighting. Hydrants ran dry in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood as surrounding homes burned. The utility says it was from high demand and the pumps were working , but California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will investigate.
Some researchers have criticized the studies, saying the chemical concentrations the rodents were given were thousands of times higher than what U.S. drinking water supplies would have. The California environmental health hazard agency is updating its public health goal for hexavalent chromium, which was finalized in 2011 at 0.02 parts per billion.
California water officials have estimated that the total costs of drinking water solutions for communities statewide amount to $11.5 billion over the next five years.
The Safe Drinking Water Act is the principal federal law governing public water systems. [1] These systems provide drinking water through pipes or other constructed conveyances to at least 15 service connections, or serve an average of at least 25 people for at least 60 days a year. As of 2017 there are over 151,000 public water systems. [2]
Adam Ezelle, 5, waits as his mother, Dana Ezelle, fills a pot with tap water to cook noodles. The water at Fountain Trailer Park in North Edwards, Calif., is tainted with high levels of arsenic.