Living Water Wise Columns

The Critical Link Between Home Ownership and Reliable Water Supplies When it comes to home ownership in rural communities, access to reliable water and septic or sewer systems is crucial. This...

The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley added its collective voice to the effort to simplify and streamline the complicated and often onerous constellation of State of California...

"As this drought stretches on, we'll continue to do whatever is necessary to help communities save more water," Brown said after meeting with California mayors, including San Jose's Sam Liccardo and Oakland's Libby Schaaf.

Following the lowest snowpack ever recorded and with no end to the drought in sight, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced actions that will save water, increase enforcement to prevent wasteful water use, streamline the state's drought response and invest in new technologies that will make California more drought resilient.

By Julie Saare-Edmonds, California Department of Water Resources It’s been long, dry year for California. Although we have had touches of rain here and there, the long-term weather forecasts don’t look too promising. Add that to a couple of previous dry years and the results are dry soils all over the state. Trees growing in nature depend exclusively on rain and snow and many of our larger urban forest trees do, too. Because our rain and snow have been far less than average, the moisture...

Summer is over and fall has arrived! Water Year 2014 ended on September 30th as one of California’s driest ever with no promise this water year will be any wetter.  It is more important than ever to remind everyone that just because we are out of the dry season doesn’t mean the drought is anywhere near over. When (and if) rain comes conserving water may be the last thing that comes to mind. However, water conservation should be a daily, year-round habit for all of us. To help guide us into...