Arsenic is a toxic element that is both naturally occurring in the Earth’s crust and artificially produced from agricultural and industrial processes. Arsenic can enter groundwater sources from rock ...

Alejandro Alcazar had worked as a digital marketing coordinator ... as leaders across Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley are finding out. Compared with other industries, the ...

(CN) — California’s water authorities will spend $15 million in three crucial water management zones within the drought-ravaged southern Central Valley ... totaling $15 million to improve water ...

US Drought Monitor These maps show drought conditions in California on Sept. 27, 2022 and March 14, 2023. The Central Valley and a stretch of the California coast from western Los Angeles County ...

The California Department ... fire-hazard severity maps Monday that added thousands of acres within the purview of local fire departments across agricultural Central Valley counties that ...

Water is a currency in California, and the low-income farmworkers who pick the Central ... them to spread infrastructure costs across more customers. In the San Joaquin Valley, nearly 80 percent ...

By Soumya Karlamangla When an “atmospheric river” dumped torrents of rain over the Central Valley in January ... as are most California farmworkers. That meant that 41 percent of the flood ...