On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a $68.5 million judgment for SCV Water for the cleanup of local groundwater contamination in its case against the Whittaker Corporation (“Whittaker”). The judgment was originally awarded on June 28, 2022, by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California following a combined jury and bench ...

The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, (SCV Water) cut the ribbon Wednesday morning on a groundwater treatment plant set to clean water of the chemical pollutant PFAS and supply clean water to Santa Clarita families.  The plant was constructed in 2010 but has been offline since 2019 when PFAS chemicals were discovered in 15 wells around the Santa Clarita Valley, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget recently included a drinking water tax that would cost Santa Clarita homeowners 95 cents per month to help disadvantaged communities clean up contaminated water sources. Santa Clarita residents paying the tax would see their water bill increase by $11.40 per year if the proposal is approved. Santa Clarita Valley Water serves 273,000 customers ...

Humans can live for a decent length of time without food, but we simply cannot survive more than a few days without water. The average person needs to take in just over half a gallon of water a day for optimum health, yet plenty of people manage only around half of this target figure, or less. Although some water comes ...