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A local water district is set to buy land near a lake in Southwest Riverside County. Rancho California Water District will pay nearly $50 million for the 7,995-acre site at Vail Lake, a popular recreation site, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The district was awarded the property earlier …

An official with the California Building Industry Association says replacing older toilets and other water fixtures is crucial and will go a long way toward saving water, but the job won’t be easy. Robert Raymer believes he’s identified a way to help California get through the drought, now in its …

The first time San Bernardino County applied its Renewable Energy Ordinance, the result was a loss for solar energy and skilled workers in the middle of an economic crisis. The ordinance was used to deny Clean Focus Corporation its application to build a job-creating solar generation facility on 23 acres …

Faced with one of the worst droughts in California history, state legislators voted Wednesday to put a major water plan on the November ballot. If approved, the $7.5 billion measure would represent the largest investment in decades in the state’s water infrastructure: it would build reservoirs, pay for water-saving technology …

Lake Mead is at its lowest level since the 1930s, when Hoover Dam was built and the lake was first filled in. Federal officials are preparing to release a new projection on the lake, which currently at 39 percent capacity, according to an Associated Press report. Lake Mead is currently …

Riverside a bastion of liberalism? Well, not quite. But the city did rank as mildly left-of-center politically in a study conducted by Professors Chris Warshaw of MIT and Chris Tausanovitch of UCLA, the results of which appear in this month’s edition of American Political Science Review. Both academics brought together …