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Rachel Becker CalMatters Los californianos podrían beber aguas residuales altamente purificadas que se canalizan directamente a los suministros de agua potable por primera vez según las reglas propuestas reveladas por los funcionarios estatales de agua. El estado propenso a las sequías ha recurrido al agua reciclada durante más de 60...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters Californians could drink highly purified sewage water that is piped directly into drinking water supplies for the first time under proposed rules unveiled by state water officials. The drought-prone state has turned to recycled water for more than 60 years to bolster its scarce supplies, but the current...
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Al caminar por tu vecindario, habrás notado que los patios se han transformado. Tienen menos hierba y más plantas nativas. ¿Qué apariencia tiene el tuyo, estás listo para reemplazar tu césped que consume tanta agua? Crea un jardín hermoso y moderno que haga uso eficiente del agua. Si vives...
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La tierra que Jim Scala y su familia han estado cultivando durante tres generaciones está reseca y marrón hasta donde alcanza la vista. El estanque donde solía beber su ganado ahora es un charco, rodeado de barro agrietado. En otros años, el agua bombeada del río Shasta habría inundado...
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The land that Jim Scala and his family have been ranching for three generations is parched and brown as far as he can see. The pond where his cattle used to drink is now a puddle, ringed with cracked mud. In other years, water pumped from the Shasta River...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday August 11 a broad strategy for bolstering the state’s water supply that includes targets to recycle more water, expand reservoir storage and collect more data on the amounts farmers use. Newsom warned that new strategies are essential because California’s water...
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Without water, without air, but full of hope. This is how entire families of immigrants traveled in pursue to fulfill their American dream of living and working, of having a better future in the United States, when one by one they died suffocated inside a trailer container. Not to...
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California today proposed a long-awaited standard for a cancer-causing contaminant in drinking water that would require costly treatment in many cities throughout the state. Traces of hexavalent chromium are widely found in the drinking water of millions of Californians, with some of the contamination naturally occurring and some from...
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Californians used 2.6% more water in January compared to before the drought emergency was declared, a sign that urban residents are ignoring the state’s pleas to take the drought seriously and cut back. The increased water use in California’s cities and towns came during the second-driest January on record, as...