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ROSEVILLE ELECTRIC UTILITY
EMPOWERING WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC POWER INDUSTRY
Community-owned Roseville Electric Utility has served Roseville with a reputation for reliable service and low rates for more than 100 years. Traditionally, electric utilities have been male-dominated realms, but at Roseville Electric, women are working to change that.

Rollercoaster Weather Shows Why California Needs Better Infrastructure for Wetter Years
CalMatters: The sequence of events so far underscores the simple fact that predicting California’s weather, despite enormous advances in technology, is still educated guesswork.

The Delta in Decline
Wildlife and businesses in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are suffering from lack of fresh water
The life cycle of a salmon, so the story goes, is a heroic journey. The fish emerge from fertilized eggs in a river bed, swim to the ocean where they spend most of their lives and return to give birth in the exact place where they were born.

Newsom Unveils Plan to Cut California Climate Funding
CalMatters: The cuts unveiled in the first draft of his new budget triggered criticism from environmental groups.
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Manager, Department of Utilities, City of Sacramento, observing the final stage of this year’s Fall-run Chinook Salmon on
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The RiverArc Project
SHIFTING WATER SUPPLIES FOR ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VITALITY
The majority of the Sacramento area’s water resources come from the American River, a sensitive state- and federally-designated Wild & Scenic tributary of the Sacramento River. The RiverArc Project, a partnership of water agencies in the region, will shift a significant portion of that demand to the much larger Sacramento River.

‘Mystery City’ Unveiled
Proposed community envisions the good ol’ days; critics call it sprawl
Sramek, 36, is founder and CEO of California Forever, which seeks to build a large new community in Solano County. While cities or large unincorporated communities have been built from scratch before in California and elsewhere, what makes this potential metropolis unusual — and has stirred public controversy — are the people behind it and its backstory.

Whatever Became of the Auburn Dam?
One of the largest flood control projects in the country was never built
The Auburn Dam could well be the most talked about water storage and flood control facility in the country that simply doesn’t exist — no matter how much it’s been argued about, advocated for and against, legislatively proposed and architecturally rendered.

Give Bees a Chance
Farmers restore habitat for native pollinators
As California grew into a vast agricultural region during the early 20th century, native grasslands, forests and riparian habitats were gradually replaced by farmlands and orchards. Though green things thrive on farms as a matter of business, there’s very little biodiversity on a traditional farm — and not much room for pollen specialists.

The Way We Work: KCRA Chief Meteorologist Mark Finan
A glimpse into his daily life of monitoring the weather for the Capital Region
Will it rain this weekend? For over 30 years, the man Sacramento trusts for that answer is Mark Finan, chief meteorologist at KCRA.
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Western Placer Waste Management Authority
CREATING A LOCAL CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR PLACER COUNTY’S FUTURE
Western Placer Waste Management Authority (WPWMA) has been creating solutions and transforming waste into a resource since 1978.