Due to contamination of drinking water that was pumped to homes and businesses, the City of Poway, California will be cited by the Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water. Heavy rains overwhelmed the City of Poway’s drinking water infrastructure, as storm drains were over capacity and untreated runoff wound up contaminating treated drinking [...]
The Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) recently underwent a data breach. From August 26, 2019, and October 14, 2019, the Click2Gov web portal, maintained and operated by outside vendor Central Square, was accessed by an unauthorized party. Central Square conducted an investigation with the help of a cybersecurity firm to determine the extent of the [...]
The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) published a fact sheet in October 2019 about the need for updating aging infrastructure in California due to changing climate and weather patterns and population changes. The ACWA notes that with overall average global temperatures on the steady rise, various adaptation and mitigation measures are necessary in order [...]
In the past few years, the wildfires that normally blaze through the drier California regions have worsened. Photos of the devastating damage are always prevalent in various news outlets as homes are destroyed and the flames come dangerously close to the highways used to flee the fires. But the effects of the fires extend beyond [...]
The Mojave River Dam, on the northern side of the San Bernardino Mountains, is among 90,000 dams is the United States. Most of these dams are over five decades old, and many are in dire need of repairs. The Army Corps of Engineers estimates that all necessary repairs for aging dams would cost $24 billion. [...]
At the Georgia Rural Water Association's fall 2019 conference in Helen, Georgia, Dr. Scott Thomas of AARC Consultants, LLC gave a brief but informative overview of the AWIA 2018 requirements for water utilities. The America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) was passed in October 2018 by Congress and is an EPA requirement for all drinking water [...]
