The giant utility that provides 19 million Southern California residents with water voted a second time Tuesday to pay for the bulk of a $16 billion state water project, but not before residents again lobbed accusations of “backroom dealings.”
Read moreA conservation group can’t force San Francisco and other cities to stop taking water from a glacial reservoir in Yosemite National Park that serves 2.6 million Bay Area residents, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
Read moreThe United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service granted Nestle a 3-year permit to continue bottling water from a source in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles.
Read moreRescuers punched a hole into the side of a mountain on Thursday in a desperate attempt to drain rising water from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been missing for five days.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revived Florida’s request to restrict how much water Georgia can take from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, continuing the decades-long dispute between the two states.
Read moreNative Americans with an oil-rich reservation in North Dakota brought a federal complaint Wednesday to quash drilling permits that poses a threat to their drinking water.
Read moreSkokie, Illinois, has intensified a dispute with neighboring city Evanston over the price it pays for water from Lake Michigan, claiming in court that its hiked rates are unconstitutional because Evanston charges other nearby municipalities less.
Read moreThe Waterkeeper Alliance claim in a federal complaint Wednesday that the Clean Water Rule of June 2015 denied protection to critical streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, and a Delay Rule of February 2018 delayed protections for other bodies of water. It’s the 45th such lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this calendar-year.
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One of the final water-rights settlements between the United States and Native American tribes was signed Tuesday, resolving a generation-long battle between the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and the federal government.
Read moreAn unusual tie Monday at the Supreme Court has left intact an order expected to cost Washington billions of dollars after Native American tribes contested culvert work that blocked fish migration.
Read moreA judge denied a request Thursday by a federal water management agency for more time to evaluate the environmental impacts of California’s water transfer program that allows some water rights holders to sell water to the parched farms in the southern part of the state.
Read moreDodging claims that it violated open government and transparency laws before voting to spend $10 billion on a contentious water project, California’s largest water supplier said Thursday it will vote again.
Read moreNestlé will temporarily stop pulling water from the San Bernardino National Forest according to the terms of a settlement reached in a long-running federal case on Wednesday.
Read moreThe House is set to approve a nearly $3 billion bill to improve the nation’s ports, dams and harbors, protect against floods, restore shorelines and support other water-related projects.
Read moreThe city of Flint and several government officials argued before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday for immunity on a bodily integrity claim brought by a mother and child who drank the city’s lead-contaminated water.
Read moreThree years after issuing California’s first mandatory water restrictions during a historic drought, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday inked legislation creating permanent water-use goals for households and suppliers.
Read moreItaly’s failures when it comes to collecting and treating urban wastewater will cost it $29 million plus a fine of $35 million for every six months of delay, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday.
Read moreResidents of an Idaho town have been told not to drink its well water amid concerns that a fired municipal worker who killed himself in his home may have contaminated it, officials said Friday.
Read moreEnvironmental organizations sued the California agency in charge of managing a massive water project Friday, saying the state illegally altered the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta management plan to favor the project over environmental restoration.
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