May 23, 2025 | Water News Highlights
Pure Water Southern California’s Draft Environmental Impact Report is now available. We invite you to review the report and provide your valuable input through July 14. Visit mwdh2o.com/purewaterDEIR for more information. Download the Draft EIR Postcard with key...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
World Water Day as declared by the UN is March 22nd. This year the UN has named Glacier Preservation as the theme. We celebrate World Water Day to draw attention to the fact that water is finite, yet water is life, sustaining us all. How do we balance the two? We...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Water sustains life, connects communities, and shapes our future—yet Los Angeles has long relied on distant sources, often at the expense of Indigenous people, their sacred territories, and delicate ecosystems. It’s time to reimagine a future built on sustainable,...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Save California Salmon is hosting a new webinar series on Water Protection and public processes. This series is focused on Northern California water use related to big Bureau of Reclamation Projects, public input processes, and tools to get involved. Feel free to...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
2025 is the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP2025) by the United Nations General Assembly to “highlight the importance of glaciers and ensure that those relying on them, and those affected by cryospheric processes, receive the necessary...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
ICO’S MISSION STATEMENT The Los Angeles Inspiring Connections Outdoors (Angeles Chapter) serves as a bridge that enables underserved youth, disabled individuals, and others to visit and develop an appreciation for our natural environment. We work with schools,...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Oroville Dam Spillway. Trees burnt during Woolsey Fire. As the chair of the Water Committee, I am always being invited to participate in something or show up somewhere. I try very hard to meet the demand, knowing that there is always a connection to be made when you...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
This World Water Day, learn about the history of water in Los Angeles with Angeles Chapter Water Committee Chair and Co-Chair of the Sierra Club CA Water Committee Charming Evelyn, and California Naturalist and Environmental Educator Jason Wise. Directed and edited by...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power On Monday, January 6, the first forecasted strong windstorm of the year was expected to bring damaging winds of 50-80 miles per hour. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and our employees had prepared for...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
WRD’s service area map and the geographical locations of its facilities in Southern Los Angeles County. The Water Replenishment District (WRD) has a rich history of successful groundwater management, ensuring a sustainable water supply for 4 million people in Southern...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
The Dust Bowl was one of the most difficult times in American history. Farmers had made some mistakes with their techniques, including believing that “rain follows the plow” and not using dry land techniques which led to an increase in soil erosion. When severe...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Photo: New generator being hoisted into place at one of Suburban’s pump station sites. The back up generators allow us to keeping pumping water for fire fighting even when utility power is cut due down powerlines (fallen branches or trees, burned poles, etc.), a...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
In 1906 after a horrific fire, San Francisco brought in urban planner Daniel Burnham and architect Willis Polk, taking tragic devastation as an opportunity for a reset. Present day Los Angeles is facing increased heat in the 21rst century, rain of higher intensity but...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
Richard Garcia knows a thing or two about water in the Central Valley. A dedicated member of Sierra Club’s Kern-Kaweah Chapter and longtime resident of California’s agricultural hub, Garcia has lived around the region’s waterways, seeing them change over time as...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
From the shifting sand dunes of Montaña de Oro to the lively shores of Venice Beach, California’s coastline has long been a treasure shared by all. At the heart of its protection stands the California Coastal Commission (CCC), an agency created not to stop progress,...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
If you love Malibu, you’re feeling the brutal loss of that row of beautiful houses burnt to the ground along Pacific Coast Highway. And… Sea level rise is coming. These days it’s hard in Malibu to do much of anything but feel the after image of fire, to see ruins,...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
The dangerous impacts of deep seabed mining are revealed in this compelling documentary film about the unique unexplored ecosystems in our largest remaining wilderness. Enjoy a 20-minute global perspective about the emerging threat to our oceans at...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
“Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” Juvenal, Roman poet. c. 55 – 127 AD Derived from Juvenal’s observation, the contemporary phrase “bread and circuses” means to gain public approval, not by excellence in public service or public...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
A mountain lion walks down a dirt path in the Santa Monica Mountains, her journey is followed by a national park service (NPS) mountain lion biologist from a tracking device on the lion’s radio collar, her journey leads to her den of two kittens. This is new...
Mar 21, 2025 | Water Issue 2025
The 2025 California State Legislature is in full swing. Every year, hundreds of environmental bills are introduced in the state legislature, and Sierra Club CA- the legislative and regulatory branch of the Sierra Club in California- tracks these bills to ensure good...
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