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RCAC staff member joins EPA's Arsenic Small Systems Work Group
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water invited Stevan Palmer, RCAC rural development specialist II, to participate on the arsenic small systems work group. Read more>>
EPA awards more than $6.7 million to the Guam Waterworks Authority for wastewater and drinking water projects
EPA press release: February 21
HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded more than $6.7 million as part of a yearly grant to the Guam Waterworks Authority to improve drinking water and wastewater systems on Guam. Read how the funds will improve the "future health of Guam's economy..." >>
Mining California groundwater: The Cadiz project
By Peter Gleick, SFGate.com, January 24
A private company, Cadiz Inc. (Cadiz), revived plans to mine groundwater underlying land in the delicate Eastern Mojave Desert. This project revives fundamental questions about how we manage our precious water resources, and in particular, whether in the 21st century it is appropriate, or even necessary, to use renewable water resources in a nonrenewable and unsustainable way, for short-term profit. Find out more about water mining's and its possible adverse consequences for other humans and for the local environment>>
Water systems need fixes; customers don’t want to fund them
By Ryan Lillis and Matt Weiser, Sacbee.com, January 30
From mountain hamlets to Sacramento City Hall, governments are asking taxpayers to dig deeper into their pockets to improve sewer and water systems. And people are pushing back. Read more>>
Nitrate pollutes tap water in rural California
From www.futurity.org, March 14
One in 10 people living in California’s most productive agricultural areas is at risk of exposure to harmful nitrate levels in drinking water. Read the entire article and download the UC Davis Report, Addressing Nitrate in California's Drinking Water here >>
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