Southern California Water Committee
for Maven’s Notebook
Southern California is still healing from a historic drought. Yet most people take clean, affordable water for granted because it continues to spout freely from our shower . . .
Lynda Noriega: New Cal Domestic Water President
By Emily Holland
for Patch Staff
She brings a depth of experience to lead Cal Domestic and serve their shareholders, according to Chairman Richard D. Jones.
OSG Principal Adán Ortega discusses gas price increases in California with Telemundo.
By Maria Paula Ochoa
for Telemundo News
El aumento del costo de la gasolina se debe a un nuevo impuesto de 12 centavos en ese estado; el impacto de la subida del combustible deberá afectar a todo el país . . .
Opinion: Pitching desalination as an environmental justice issue is way off base
By Ronald R. Gastelum
for The Orange County Register
Development of water projects in California is hard enough without introducing ethnicity into the mix. Rarely, if ever, has a proposed water project been promoted as essential . . .
Opinion: Small water districts get a break on chrome 6
By Lisa Yamashita-Lopez and Ray Kolisz
for The Sacramento Bee
Water suppliers in California’s disadvantaged communities were struggling to comply with a prohibitively expensive regulation that only wealthy and larger water districts could afford.
OSG Nominates Candidate for UCLA’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
By Ortega Strategies Group
Adán Ortega nominated Susana De Anda, Community Water Center Co-Founder, after working with her on projects that ensure Californians, especially those in underserved communities, have access to safe, clean and affordable drinking water.
Water conservation bill AB1343 by La Habra students signed into law
By Anthony Mendoza, Orange County Register
Governor Brown’s signature on a school water conservation bill caps a legislative success for the La Habra Water Guardians and California Domestic Water Company with coaching and facilitation by OSG.
South Mesa and Western Heights Water Companies Sign Agreement
By Jamie Wilkins, Banning-Beaumont Patch
The agreement seeks to ensure a reliable and resilient water system in the Yucaipa Basin.
La Habra school project on water conservation inspired bill waiting state legislators’ approval
By Anthony Mendoza, Orange County Register
A 2015 student project at Washington Middle School found its way onto the State Assembly floor this month as a proposed law.