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2 Sep 2020 SACRAMENTO CA

Water Pollution By Cattle Identified As Spreader Of E.Coli To Romaine Lettuce

The Leafy Greens Greens Marketing Agreements in California and Arizona have been amended by their Advisory Boards to require additional safety practices for growing leafy greens such as romaine lettuce in the two states that grow the vast majority of it. The additional safety measures follow costly and embarrassing outbreaks of E...

24 Oct 2018 WashINGTON, DC, United States

Trump Enters A California Water War

Two weeks before the US mid-term elections, President Donald Trump's administration has taken a stand on a sensitive issue in the State of California: water allocation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Trump went on to insinuate that California wild fires, caused by drought, should be blamed on environmental protection legislation, and threaten to withold federal support for the State when future wildfires strike...

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7 Nov 2017 SACRAMENTO CA

Water Data: California Conflict

Digital tools have expanded the ability of governments, companies and nonprofits to measure the uses of California water in detail, and thus build more water-efficient products, boost water conservation, and replace expensive and inefficient infrastructure. But the abundance of water data effectively makes every piece of land and every drop of water in California the subject of measurement—and conflict...