Using less water—it’s harder than you think

There are some simple strategies to reduce water use: take shorter showers, wash full loads of laundry and swap out that water-hogging grass for something native.

California’s thirsty almond crop still thriving amid drought

Despite California’s deepening drought, farmers throughout the state are growing a bumper crop of almonds

Navajo woman delivers 3000 gallons of water daily to homes that have no direct access to public water systems

Each day, in between her shifts as a school bus driver, Darlene Arviso gets in the St. Bonaventure water truck,fills the 3,500-gallon tank and drives up to 75 miles over rough roads to deliver around 3,000 gallons of water to residents across the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, New Mexico.

High levels of benzene found in California’s fracking waste water

By Elizabeth Zach RCAC, staff writer Waste water from fracking operations in California is significantly contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical . . .

NEXT awards celebrated in Denver

In October, RCAC received $2 million from the Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance. The multi-million dollar award will . . .