Newsweek reached out to the White House by email for comment. Assembly Bill 794—titled the California Safe Drinking Water Act: emergency regulations—comes as concerns rise nationwide about the ...

The team of scientists found only one water sample with benzene, suggesting that the water is generally safe to drink across Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.

State health and water regulators recently announced that nearly a quarter of a million California residents lack safe drinking water in their homes. It is unacceptable that any residents of ...

In an effort to reduce that exposure in drinking water, California lawmakers introduced ... that this legislation will keep Californians safe and healthy and reduce the long-term health ...

In a major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ... The state auditor lambasted California water officials ...

The California Department of Public Health remains steadfast in its support of fluoridated drinking water and sought to reassure the public that it is safe and effective. The agency issued a ...

A state entity on Friday, May 9, cleared the last of nine fire-impacted public water systems to resume delivering safe, clean drinking water ... Yana Garcia, California Secretary for Environmental ...

Norma Torres, a Democratic legislator from Southern California, on a new bill that would amend the federal Safe Drinking Water Act by adding a special focus on nitrate and arsenic pollution in ...

Exposure to Legacy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Diet and Drinking Water in California Adults, 2018–2020. Environmental Science & Technology , 2025; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c11872 Cite ...

Now, thanks to a long-awaited project funded by California’s Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund (SAFER), Torres and her neighbors will have their water connected to the City of Sanger.

A state entity Friday cleared the last of nine fire-impacted public water systems to resume delivering safe, clean drinking water ... and rebuild,” Yana Garcia, California Secretary for ...

“We will continue to work to understand how to lower PFAS levels in the California food supply.” While PFAS concentrations in the participants’ drinking water was on average substantially ...