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Find out how some families and schools live with contaminated water, what possible treatments could be and more about how water becomes contaminated. + read more

Officials broke ground yesterday on the largest U.S. Department of the Interior stimulus project in the nation, a bypass allowing fish to reach their spawning grounds while protecting a valuable water source for Northern California farmers. Red Bluff Diversion Dam The project to update... + read more

Did the Obama administration swap the fate of the Delta’s endangered salmon for a couple of votes for the president’s health care overhaul? Probably, says the Republican National Committee. Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced A preposterous smear, says one of the Central Valley... + read more

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s call to divert more Northern California water to Central Valley farms is running head on into new scientific evidence that the region’s famed Chinook salmon are on the verge of extinction.  Last week, Feinstein rattled environmentalists and some... + read more

Time to stock up on water filters.  Some of the worst tap water in America can be found right here in California, according to a report released last month by an environmental advocacy group.  The Environmental Working Group – made up of scientists, engineers and policy... + read more