Malaga residents receive boil-water notice after E.coli detection
Malaga-area residents received warnings early Friday from water district officials urging them to boil their tap water until further notice after E. coli bacteria was detected in the water system. According to the notice posted Friday and reviewed by Fresnoland, water samples tested positive for contamination on Jan. 20, but the potentially deadly bacteria was…
Fresno takes on ‘forever chemicals’ in second major water contamination lawsuit
The City of Fresno is making its second major legal offensive against corporate polluters in two years, filing suit against more than 40 companies it accuses of contaminating the city’s groundwater with PFAS, the synthetic compounds known as “forever chemicals.” Fresno’s groundwater is over 600% EPA standards for forever chemicals — some of the worst…
Fresnolandia Podcast: Will AI data centers really use up our water?
On this week’s Fresnolandia podcast, Danielle and Jordan talk with veteran journalist Lois Henry, the founder and executive editor of SJV Water, a nonprofit, independent newsroom focused on water in the valley. They talk about the actual water demand from AI data centers, whether they’re really coming for our water, and if we should expect…
San Joaquin River rally draws hundreds against CEMEX blast mine as state bill hangs in balance
Over two hundred residents packed the San Joaquin River Center Thursday, downing tacos and beer while rallying against CEMEX’s proposed blast mine along the San Joaquin River that has pitted the livelihoods of roughly 60 union workers against federal warnings of environmental disaster. As Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula promoted his bill to block the project, attendees…
No, the Resnicks are not ‘hoarding’ water while Los Angeles burns
Almost as soon as the unprecedented scale of the Los Angeles wildfires hit the public’s awareness, SJV Water started getting some pretty out there emails and texts alleging that Lynda and Stewart Resnick “own” 60% (75%, even 80%) of California’s water and were somehow “hoarding it” so it couldn’t be used to put out the…
‘It’s horrible.’ Fresno’s record-breaking settlement highlights region’s larger drinking water problem
The San Joaquin Valley has reached a dead end in its fight to clean up a toxic contaminant from its drinking water, with residents now facing the prospect of footing the bill for a mess created by Shell and Dow products. Fresnoland reviewed internal Shell and Dow memos, court records, and state documents and interviewed…
Westlands Water District teams up with Democrats on massive solar project
This story was originally published by SJV Water is an independent, nonprofit news site covering water in the San Joaquin Valley, www.sjvwater.org. Email us at sjvwater@sjvwater.org. The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning Democratic Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria on renewable energy. Her bill, AB 2661, was signed by Gov. Gavin…
‘I won’t let them drink the water.’ The California towns where clean drinking water is out of reach
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 requirements for safe and reliable…
Okieville water recharge project a ‘poster child’ of partnership to protect residential water
More than 40 engineers, landowners, water officials and drinking water advocates gathered along the banks of a full, flowing canal in Tulare County Thursday to inaugurate the Okieville Recharge Basin. But the first order of business on the hot summer day was snow cones. The 21-acre project is a “poster child” of partnership that will…
California farmers depleted groundwater in this county. Now a state crackdown could rein them in
For the first time in California history, state officials are poised to crack down on overpumping of groundwater in the agricultural heartland. The State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday will weigh whether to put Kings County groundwater agencies on probation for failing to rein in growers’ overdrafting of the underground water supply. Probation —…
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