San Diego built the most expensive water in California. Now it wants its parched neighbors to help pay for it.

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he ...

A Southern California desalination plant set to open this fall will be the largest in the Western Hemisphere and the only water supply in San Diego not dependent on rainfall or a snowpack. When the ...

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Last week, the Monterey County Superior Court issued its final decision denying attempts by the City of Marina (City), Monterey Peninsula Water Management ...

For decades, the Monterey Peninsula has lived under the specter of water scarcity. Our local economy, environment, and quality of life have been held captive by an unsustainable reliance on the Carmel ...

For more than two decades, California’s Orange County has debated whether to build a seaside plant to convert the Pacific Ocean’s salt water into drinking water in hopes of buffering against droughts ...

In the more than four decades since I started at the L.A. Times, we’ve never had a reporter cover water with the depth and persistence of Ian James. California’s story is often the story of water — ...

A letter from California Governor Gavin Newsom to fellow governors in states along the Colorado River is offering support for a multi-state solution to managing the water supply for 40 million people.

Tim Quinn, left, OceanWell's water policy strategist, watches Mark Golay, the company's director of engineering projects, as he lowers a desalination prototype into Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake ...