News - Secure Water Alliance

11 Jun COMMENTARY: California’s water crisis is a question of infrastructure: It’s time for the Delta Conveyance Project

Posted at 17:40h in Delta Conveyance Project by securewaterx

Maven's Notebook - June 10, 2025 | Commentary by Charley Wilson, Executive Director of the Southern California Water Coalition, and Richard Lambros, the Executive Director of the Secure Water Alliance California has often positioned itself as a leader in responding to the dangers of climate change. From...

10 Dec Stand up for Southern California’s Water Future

Posted at 19:32h in Uncategorized by securewaterx

The Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors will vote on the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) on December 10. This project is essential to safeguarding a reliable water supply for millions in Southern California, but they need to hear from YOU. Here’s how you can help: Write...

10 Dec Pure Water Southern California receives additional $26.2 million award from Bureau of Reclamation

Posted at 19:24h in Pure Water Southern California by securewaterx

Pure Water Southern California has received a second large-scale water recycling grant of $26.2 million, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced earlier this month. The new grant comes on top of $99.2 million in federal funds awarded to the project in May. The proposed regional...

08 Jun Newsom praises court ruling dismissing environmental groups’ challenge of Sites Reservoir

Posted at 15:01h in Sites Reservoir by securewaterx

California’s plan to build the state’s first new major reservoir in decades is advancing after a court rejected a challenge by environmental groups. In the ruling last week, a Yolo County Superior Court judge sided against environmental advocates who had argued Sites Reservoir would harm the...

05 Jun Governor Gavin Newsom noted that judges must rule on certain CEQA challenges within 270 days under a streamlining tool.

Posted at 14:16h in News, Sites Reservoir by securewaterx

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday praised a judge’s decision that denied a move to stop the Sites Reservoir project based on state environmental law, pointing to a streamlined legal process that led to the quick ruling. Conservation groups had sued over the proposed reservoir, some...

17 May Analysis: Benefits of the Delta Conveyance Project Far Exceed Costs

Posted at 14:23h in News by securewaterx

SACRAMENTO – Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a benefit-cost analysis for the Delta Conveyance Project that finds the infrastructure modernization project would create billions of dollars in benefits for California communities, including reliable water supplies, climate change adaptation, earthquake preparedness and improved...

04 Apr Amid above-average snowpack, Newsom urges focus on state water resilience and adaptation

Posted at 14:03h in Uncategorized by securewaterx

With California snowpack and reservoirs at above-average levels following two wet winters, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood on a snowy field near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday and urged the state to do much more to make its water supplies resilient to the extreme droughts and flooding...

26 Mar California’s largest new reservoir project in 50 years gains momentum

Posted at 15:12h in News by securewaterx

$205 million from Congress is latest boost for Sites Reservoir, but can it overcome opposition? Colusa County is known for sprawling rice farms and almond orchards, wetlands full of migrating ducks and geese, staunch conservative politics, and the 19th-century family cattle ranch where former Gov. Jerry...

06 Feb L.A.’s flood-control system survived epic storm. But it’s losing battle with climate change

Posted at 16:05h in News by securewaterx

Amid hammering rainfall, viscous mud flows and multiple state emergency declarations, Los Angeles County’s Byzantine flood control system has thus far absorbed near-record precipitation — a feat that officials say was made possible by extensive preparations, including the massive dredging of key debris basins and...

24 Jan CAL MATTERS: California ranks high worldwide for rapidly depleted groundwater

Posted at 16:13h in Uncategorized by securewaterx

Researchers found that the world’s most rapidly declining basins are in farm regions, especially drier areas like the San Joaquin Valley. Wells are drying out and land is sinking. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters In a sign of the ongoing threats to its precious groundwater stores, half...