Years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity.

David Feldman, director of Water UCI at UC Irvine, said desalination could eventually provide “somewhere between 10% and half” of California’s potable water — with one caveat.

A new deep-sea desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an economical and environmentally friendly way of tapping the Pacific Ocean ...

Californians could be drinking water tapped from the Pacific Ocean off Malibu several years from now — that is, if a company's new desalination technology proves viable. OceanWell Co. plans to ...

Only a week after levels peaked, California's biggest reservoir has lost roughly a foot of water. As of Monday, the lake's elevation was 1,061.07 feet, nearly 6 feet below full capacity.

But Ed Ring, California Policy Center’s Director of Water and Energy Policy, recently calculated that a full build-out of desalination in California would increase our energy consumption by only ...

California officials have forecast a 10 percent decrease in the state’s water supplies by 2040 because of climate change. Desalination is more expensive than other water supply alternatives ...

A very large statewide water modernization project, known as the California State Water Project or the Delta Conveyance Project, is on the launch pad now. A tunnel system will be required, and the ...

California's water system has remained a complex topic and was recently put into the spotlight by President Donald Trump's comments. "This is the intake for the Central Valley Project, the federal ...

A new desalination technology is undergoing testing in Southern California. Water managers hope it will offer an environmentally friendly way of tapping the Pacific Ocean.