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California: homeowners’ tax break to capture rainwater in their backyards

Photo: A bill in the California Legislature would exclude rainwater capture systems from property tax reassessments starting in 2019. (Jim…

7 years ago

Water board reports highlighted health risk before hepatitis outbreak

San Diego officials were informed repeatedly of the dangers of disease-carrying runoff from homeless encampments into area waterways, as far…

7 years ago

3 [more?] Surprising Ways Water Depends on Healthy Forests

Healthy forests are critical to providing clean water. Forests can positively impact the quantity, quality and filtration costs associated with…

7 years ago

Removing Trace Metals From Stormwater at Industrial Hard Chrome Plating Facility

Industrial stormwater can contain trace metals above regulatory limits. Although standard water treatment processes are available to treat this water,…

7 years ago

Easy Fix: How to Stop Poisoning Fish in the Gulf of Mexico

Saturated buffer along unnamed tributary to the Skunk River, Iowa. Photo by Kent Heikens USDA, Agricultural Research Service. Fertilizer used…

7 years ago