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The California State Water Resources Control Board (“Water Board” for short) recently finalized criteria for monitoring aquifers near fracking operations. Two years after Clean Water Action sponsored legislation to require aquifer testing before and after fracking, California is now poised to finally have the information we need to understand the impacts of oil and gas development on groundwater and the environment. With extreme drought crippling the Central Valley, where 95% of fracking occurs protecting groundwater from Big Oil maybe one of the keys to California’s future. When Senate Bill 4 passed in 2013, requiring that the state finally start regulating fracking, it also mandated that the Water Board develop criteria for monitoring aquifers that could be impacted by fracking and other forms of well stimulation. Clean Water Action was instrumental in incorporating these ground water monitoring requirements into the bill and has been the leading the process to make sure they are implemented correctly. After more than a year and half of public workshops, meetings and comment periods, the Board unanimously approved the rules.

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A review of currently available in-stream water-quality models and their applicability for simulating dissolved oxygen in lowland rivers

A summary of boron surface water quality data throughout the European Union

Drinking water quality in the Ethiopian section of the East African Rift Valley I--data and health aspects

Effects on run-off water quantity and quality of urban organic wastes applied in a degraded semi-arid ecosystem

LOIS in-stream water quality modelling Part 1 Catchments and methods

LOIS in-stream water quality modelling Part 2 Results and scenarios

Seasonality and water quality trends in a maturing recreated reed bed

The Mersey Basin: an historical assessment of water quality from an anecdotal perspective

Water quality fluxes for eastern UK rivers entering the North Sea: a summary of information from the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS)