The State Water Board has released a factsheet explaining how existing drinking water safety rules and regulations protect against a wide spectrum of potential safety risks, including viruses like COVID-19. A Spanish language version of the factsheet is also available. The Board has also released a guidance document for public water systems that identifies relevant considerations and details suggestions to … Continue reading “State Water Board Releases Drinking Water Factsheet and Guidance Document in Response to COVID-19 Concerns”

The Northern California Water Association (NCWA) Board of Directors recently approved its 2020 Priorities, which describes a water portfolio for the Sacramento River Basin and describes ten priority areas for 2020. NCWA and water leaders in Northern California look forward to working with our many partners in 2020 to further develop and implement a water … Continue reading “NCWA’s 2020 Priorities”

For more than two decades, Butte Creek salmon numbers have been strong, thanks to an innovative, wide-ranging collaboration between landowners, urban and agricultural water managers, conservationists and state and federal officials. This was a groundbreaking effort that helped guide and contribute to a larger, concerted program to enhance our environment by improving spawning and migratory … Continue reading “A New Film on the Sacramento Valley: Sharing Butte Creek”

Recent water quality monitoring testing conducted for the Sacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition (Coalition) shows that water quality in the Sacramento Valley is good and particularly healthy for the aquatic ecosystem. Aquatic health and the biological condition of waterbodies is generally measured by toxicity testing using sensitive algae, invertebrates, and fish that are intended to … Continue reading “Sacramento Valley Growers Work to Protect Aquatic Life”