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Celebrating World Water Day - The Angeles Chapter Way
March 1, 2021
WatCom tours MWD/ LA Sanitation Recycled Water Pilot Project, March 2020 before shutdown.
Dear Reader,
This March we celebrate water to coincide with World Water Day, March 22nd. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness...
Sierra Club Looks to Build on Special Efforts to Make Water Agencies More Diverse and Progressive
March 1, 2021
The Sierra Club Helped Make Several Influential Water Agencies More Diverse and Progressive; Now We Need to Prepare to Do Even More
Water may be life, but most residents of Southern California do not often reflect on the complex series of canals,...
Mapping Our Water
February 25, 2021
GIS Committee Maps for Angeles Chapter Water Committee
The GIS and Water Committee first partnered up many years ago on the Water Conservation Measures Scorecard project, then on a map of California Lakes and WaterWays. Recently several maps...
What's the Sierra Club California Water Committee and Why Do We Need It?
February 25, 2021
The Sierra Club California Water Committee is an issue committee that reports to the California Conservation Committee, the organization that sets Sierra Club's environmental policy for the State of California. Thus the State Water Committee is...
Climate Change Creating Enormous Challenges
February 25, 2021
WRD Robles Advanced Water Treatment Facility
The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) is the largest groundwater agency in the State of California, managing and protecting local groundwater resources for over four million...
California's New Futures Market for Water
February 25, 2021
The San Luis Dam and San Luis Reservoir is a water-storage "off-stream" reservoir and is typically low in late summer due to its heavy usage for irrigation, Merced County, California, USA Peter Bennett all rights reserved
On...
Poseidon's Toxic Desalination Proposal
February 23, 2021
The people behind the Poseidon project feel Orange County residents do not pay enough for water. They feel that residents can and should pay. They see a potential profit in each glass of water, each shower and each toilet flush. Their...
Ocean Desalination Meets Homelessness?
February 23, 2021
Tents propped in Echo Park, Los Angeles John Nilsson all rights reserved
Who would think it? Ocean desalination intersecting with affordable housing?- Yet it has, in a little known state government agency called the California Debt Limit...
Water Equity and COVID-19
February 23, 2021
Water Equity and COVID- 19 or Is Water Inequality A More Apt Description?
Health care professionals have reassured the public that you can’t catch COVID-19 from drinking water, but what if you have other worrisome things in your water?...
My Experience as a Water Board Director
February 22, 2021
The late matriarch of Los Angeles environmental groups, Dorothy Green, wrote a book that focuses on Southern California water and water agencies: Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California.
If you live in the city of Los Angeles,...