Meet the CASA Board: 2024-2025 Board President Craig Murray Craig Murray completed his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara in 1990, during the onset of an economic downturn. Recognizing that careers in the wastewater sector were largely recession-proof, he began his professional journey with the Goleta Sanitary District, where he [...]

SB 682 Advances Following Key Fiscal Hearing CASA’s co-sponsored legislation to ban PFAS in consumer products advanced to the Senate Floor after being passed off the Senate Appropriations Committee’s “suspense file” last Friday. As a condition of passage, the committee included several author’s amendments to streamline the proposed petition process [...]

Senate Committee Advances ‘Do Not Flush’ Labeling Legislation Last week, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation favorably reported out the WIPPES Act (S.1092), as amended, on a voice-vote. The legislation now heads to the Senate Floor where it awaits to be scheduled for consideration and a vote. Importantly, [...]

CVWD Wastewater Microorganism Stickers In the spring of 2024, the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) launched the Wastewater Microorganism Stickers project. Developed in-house by the CVWD Communication and Education team, the stickers were carefully designed to accurately represent the microorganisms involved in the wastewater treatment process. The stickers have proven [...]