Water Quality

  • Safe, affordable Water? A right or a privilege? What will your Children be drinking tonight?
    Sep 26, 2011

    At first glance, you’d think the Human Right to Water bill package—now on Gov. Brown’s desk—makes all the self-evident sense in the world.

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    California Progress Report
  • Bill would allow Sacramento sewer district to sell treated wastewater
    Aug 19, 2011
    The state Legislature today approved a bill that would allow the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District to sell its treated wastewater as a new supply of drinking or irrigation water.
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    Sacramento Bee
  • Sandrock: The relation between public health and water quality
    Aug 15, 2011
    As I watered my tomatoes, my neighbor informed me that I will not be able to afford this in the future. "We are going to pay through the nose so our city can transition from ground to surface water," he said, adding though, that our "appliances" will last longer and the "fish should feel better" when our wastewater adheres to Clean Water Act requirements. As I listened, I realized few are talking about the public health opportunity of this water project. And as I responded, he quickly replied, "this isn't Africa man; our water is just fine."
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    Woodland Daily Democrat
  • Safe, affordable Water? A right or a privilege? What will your Children be drinking tonight?
    Sep 26, 2000
    At first glance, you’d think the Human Right to Water bill package—now on Gov. Brown’s desk—makes all the self-evident sense in the world.
    Read the original story
    California Progress Report