For more than 100 years, communities in the arid, sun-drenched Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles have drawn their drinking water from the 45-mile-long Coachella Valley aquifer that stretches from the Whitewater River canyon just west of Palm Springs to the Salton Sea.
And despite periodic declines in the amount of available water, the Coachella Valley Water District’s comprehensive management plan is helping ensure that water will be available years into the future. The plan includes entitlements to imported water from the Colorado River and the California State Water Project, drinking water wells and systems, aquifer recharge, recycle and
