The Kern County Fire Department placed a new water tender into service in Wasco on Friday to ensure access to water in rural areas that often have none.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District says after the dry start to the year, water levels at their reservoirs went from 70% of normal in mid-January to 82% by mid-February.

Every day, over a million gallons of wastewater flow into JEA’s all-new Greenland Water Reclamation Facility, treated in ...