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Pardon Our Dust, It's a Remodel
By Autumn Labbe-Renault , Executive Director
Team Giving
Listed under: Community Service & Support
Since the Gold Rush era, land reclamation projects have helped to build California, but they are also damaging the state’s environment for people, plants and animals by eliminating essential wetlands.
California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.
Almost one million California residents are forced to drink from contaminated water supplies, or pay for bottled water. Economic inequality makes the crisis worse. What is the state doing to fix it?
2023’s torrential rainstorms have eased California's drought conditions. But there’s a lot more to drought than the amount of rain, and this drought isn't over yet.
Community service districts can do most anything a city government can do. Here’s how they work and how to start one.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.
Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.
From West Sacramento News Ledger...
Congresswoman Doris Matsui made her annual visit to West Sacramento, focusing on flood control, transportation, and fire safety, on March 28.
From CapPublicRadio...
Yolo County Department of Community Services’ Integrated Waste Management Division Teams up with SRCC to preserve natural beauty.
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California State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways is now accepting grant applications from government agencies to help slow, stop, or reverse the impact of erosion on California’s shoreline.
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From California Local...
Benefits of the state's new, strict water conservation rules may not outweigh the costs, analysts say.
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