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Chrome-6 Standard Set but Falls Short in Protecting Community Health
After seven years, the California State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 μg/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 μg/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to fulfill their duty and protect the health of impacted communities.
Analysis: State Water Board’s Proposal to Water Down Urban Water Conservation Regulation Leaves California at Risk of Shortages
Earlier today, water experts and environmental justice advocates provided a briefing to analyze the impacts of the State Water Board’s just-released updates to its proposed urban water conservation regulation.
CA Assemblymember Connolly Codifies & Expands Beaver Restoration Program
"Beaver in their natural habitat bring multiple environmental benefits, including restoration of essential wetlands and subsequent improvements to water quality and storage so necessary in this time of drought and climate change. This bill goes way beyond just preserving wildlife. It has very human implications as well."
New Publication Finds Most CA Groundwater Sustainability Plans Fail to Protect Vulnerable Communities and the Environment
A new report published in Nature Communications authored by experts from The Nature Conservancy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Audubon California, and Clean Water Action provides a new set of recommendations on how California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act can better protect vulnerable communities and the environment.
New CA Executive Order N-4-23, Responding To The Urgent Need To Protect Communities From Flooding, Allows Groundwater Recharge That May Pollute Sources of Drinking Water
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, the Governor signed Executive Order N-4-23, to allow many landowners to flood their lands, regardless if those flood waters could poison community drinking water supplies with industrial agricultural pollution or other natural contaminants.