California Articles

It’s been a year since the emergency drought order was lifted following the state’s rough five-year stretch. But now some are concerned that water use is back to pre-drought levels.

Rescue workers spent 13 hours inspecting a maze of sewer pipe running underneath L.A.’s Griffith Park before finding 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez

In this video profile, Rainbow Municipal Water District's general manager, Tom Kennedy, discusses the challenges that come with a service area transitioning from heavily rural and agricultural to more residential

Developing a strategic plan helped struggling water district find focus, stabilize operations and improve service.

Water utilities in California have to more carefully monitor and report their water loss data to comply with a law that officially went into effect toward the end of 2017. One water utility data management company looks closer at the new law’s effects.

San Jose is ahead of the curve in adopting new techniques to control stormwater and reduce pollution.

Utilities assess infrastructure damage as Montecito recovers from natural disaster

After massive snowfall in 2016-17 brought the state out of drought, precipitation amounts this winter are off to a slow start

The San Jose Environmental Services Department looks beyond standard stormwater management methods to keep waterways clean

Check out this selection of some of the best images that appeared in Municipal Sewer & Water magazine over the past year

The Sonoma County Water Agency’s natural riverbank filtration system has been a successful method for getting high-quality water to customers, but how was it impacted by October’s wildfires?

In this week’s news briefs, in the ongoing effort to conserve treated water, a California city finds a way to significantly limit how much water is lost to storm sewers during hydrant flushing, and a Florida city nears the end of a 12-year consent order to reduce overflows

In this week’s news briefs, due to a rash of water main breaks, a city in Kansas discovers 13 miles of pipeline that had been improperly installed in the 1990s, and a large sewer project in Omaha, Nebraska, can resume after a 14-month hiatus now that a stuck tunnel-boring machine has finally been freed