Depleting an Ancient Desert Aquifer? Cadiz Is At It Again

Mar 21, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

By Bryan Baker To the untrained eye and incurious, the California desert may seem a barren wasteland. When I was a kid, my family would drive across the desert toward points east or north, and I’d be bored through the hours it took to get through the seemingly endless...

Update on the Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Modifications

Mar 21, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

By Yvonne Martinez Watson The Whittier Narrows Dam is an earthen dam constructed in 1957 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The dam stretches across a narrow gap between the Montebello Hills and the Whittier Hills at the confluence of the Rio Hondo and San...

Why isn’t the LA Regional Board Doing More to Protect Groundwater?

Mar 21, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

Why isn’t the LA Regional Board Doing More to Protect Groundwater? Protecting Groundwater Through the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board By: Annelisa Ehret Moe, Heal the Bay & Charming Evelyn From the mountains, through our streets, rivers, and...

Tapping In To Clean Drinking Water Everywhere

Mar 21, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

By Evelyn Wendel WeTap and the Sierra Club are the perfect ‘water partners.’ Collaboration and communication are the keys to healthy communities and a clean environment. The mission of WeTap is to: Bring greater awareness to the high-quality, publicly provided...

San Diego Has a Cross Border Sewage Problem

Mar 21, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

By Sydney Pitcher and Barry Pulver For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana, Mexico has, and continues, to flow across the border into San Diego, California.  This discharge flows into the Tijuana River Valley, and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.  This pollution has...

Remote Participation at Public Meetings – A Right or A Privilege?

Mar 19, 2024 | Water Issue 2024

[Update: Because of this article, BAWSCA’s CEO, Nicole Sandkulla, reached out to Sierra Club California staff to share an update on the Board’s progress to return remote participation. They shared that technical difficulties have delayed their efforts but...

Black, Asian & Bothered: (How to) Fill Your Cup and Keep It Flowing

Mar 5, 2024 | Intersectionality Environmentalism, Water News Highlights

The following article by Water Committee Chair Charming Evelyn was published in the AAPI Victory Alliance February 26, 2024 Newsletter. As we close out Black History Month and look to spring, it’s imperative we continue the conversation about how climate change...

Letter from Sacramento: Let’s Talk About CEQA

Feb 13, 2024 | Water Legislation

See the Sierra Club’s CEQA factsheet here. March 27, 2022 For more than 50 years, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has been one of the most important disclosure laws in the state. Since then-Governor Ronald Reagan signed it into law in 1970, CEQA...

Updates and Perspectives on Delta Projects Webinar

Feb 8, 2024 | Events

Join us this Saturday, February 10 at 12pm for our Updates and Perspectives on Delta Projects Webinar. In December, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) put out the final draft of the environmental impact report for the Delta Conveyance Project (Delta tunnel). Hear...

$80 Million Grant for Pure Water Southern CA

Jul 28, 2023 | Events

State officials presented an $80 million check today to help advance Pure Water Southern California, a large-scale, regional water recycling program that will create a new source of water to benefit 19 million people amid a changing climate and weather whiplash. State...

Pure Water California Receives Grant

Jul 28, 2023 | Event Galleries

Groundwater & SGMA

Jul 27, 2023 | Water Conservation

First published June 12th, 2023 in the Desert Report. Action That Is Long Overdue by William Martin & Charming Evelyn Let’s discuss groundwater! You can find many definitions of groundwater – it is basically water stored underground through millennia via the...

NGIN-LADWP Water Resiliency Roundtable

Jul 27, 2023 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights

On June 28th, 2023, The Network For Global Innovation (NGIN), in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), presented the latest webinar in the NGINLADWP Roundtable series: Water Resiliency. The discussions in this roundtable focused on...

Water Day of Action July 5th, 2023

Jul 7, 2023 | Event Galleries, Events

Photos by Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Gooley.    

Q&A with Parker Davis, Leigh Jerrard and Caty Wagner

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Kill your lawn – Native Plant Presentation Overview of Simple Greywater Systems Rain Barrels, Native Plants and HOAs Native Plants Resources California Native Plant Society Calscape Las Pilitas Nursery Theodore Payne...

Pilot Project Urban Living with Caty Wagner

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Rain Barrels, Native Plants and HOAs

Greywater Presentation by Leigh Jerrard

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Overview of Simple Greywater Systems Greywater Resources https://www.greywatercorps.com/  

Q&A with Parker Davis and Joy Langford

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Kill your lawn – Native Plant Presentation Native Plants Resources California Native Plant Society Calscape Las Pilitas Nursery Theodore Payne Foundation Hardy Californians parker@hardycalifornians.com Instagram:...

Transforming a Backyard Heat Island into a Cool Oasis with Yvonne Watson

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Transforming a backyard heat island into a cool oasis Native Plants Resources California Native Plant Society Calscape Las Pilitas Nursery Theodore Payne Foundation...

Kill Your Lawn with Parker Davis

Feb 26, 2023 | Events

Slides from Presentations at this event Kill your lawn – Native Plant Presentation Native Plants Resources California Native Plant Society Calscape Las Pilitas Nursery Theodore Payne Foundation Hardy Californians parker@hardycalifornians.com Instagram:...