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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies announced a proposal to revise the definition of “waters of the United States,” which defines the scope of federal jurisdiction over permits under the Clean Water Act. The EPA maintains that the proposal will protect water quality by striking a...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters Los incendios forestales del condado de Los Ángeles provocaron que el presidente electo Donald Trump despotricara por estos siniestros y que culpara al gobernador Gavin Newsom por privar de agua al sur de California. Trump repitió hoy una afirmación que ha hecho en el pasado, de que los esfuerzos...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters The Los Angeles County wildfires triggered a rant from President-elect Donald Trump, who blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for depriving Southern California of water. Trump today repeated a claim he has made in the past, that state efforts “to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt” have caused pain...
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After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough...
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Después de que un residente del Condado de Orange le baje al baño, el agua fluye a través del sistema de alcantarillado de la comunidad del sur de California, serpentea hasta la planta de saneamiento, se eliminan los sólidos, se canaliza a una instalación de reciclaje de aguas residuales...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters En un hito importante, los reguladores estatales anunciaron en julio que casi un millón más de californianos tienen ahora agua potable segura que hace cinco años. Pero en todo el estado, el problema sigue siendo grave: más de 735,000 personas siguen recibiendo agua de los casi 400 sistemas que no...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters In a major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ago. But across the state, the problem remains severe: More than 735,000 people are still served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters A pesar de las perpetuas luchas de California con la escasez de agua, los reguladores estatales adoptaron la semana pasada medidas de conservación obligatorias que son sustancialmente más débiles y ahorran menos agua de lo que planearon originalmente. Las reglas, que tardaron años en elaborarse, fueron...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters Despite California’s perpetual struggles with water shortages, state regulators this week adopted mandatory conservation measures that are substantially weaker and save less water than they originally planned. The rules, years in the making, were mandated by a package of laws that tasked state agencies with making...