Sep 2, 2015 | Water Conservation, Water Legislation, Water News Highlights
Posted on 2 September 2015 By From Chapter reports Want to sit down and talk with the L.A. Department of Water and Power about their proposed rate changes? You should, because it will determine how green the city’s water and power services will be. Under the...
Aug 9, 2014 | Presentation, Water News Highlights, Water Quality
From UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Join the Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch and The River Project for a discussion on where Los Angeles will get its water in the future and how we plan to pay for it. We will ask the question, Where should...
Jun 26, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
What are the drivers? Are conservation measures working? CCSC Director Dr. Stephanie Pincetl and Dr. Terri Hogue (Colorado School of Mines) analyzed the factors that drive single-family residential water use across the City of Los Angeles and whether conservation...
Apr 18, 2014 | Ocean Desalination, Water News Highlights
Goodbye, Oil: US Navy Cracks New Renewable Energy Technology To Turn Seawater Into Fuel, Allowing Ships To Stay At Sea Longer. See report in the International Business Times. Photo source The River...
Mar 23, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
Listen to this podcast (also available as a transcript) created by H2O Radio, on the hard work of measuring snowpack in Boulder Colorado and across the country: Snow Job— Following the Men and Women Who Measure Snowpack Photo H2O...
Mar 23, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
It’s amazingly easy to steal water from a California stream. Even in this epic drought, the state has no way of monitoring exactly who is tapping into its freshwater supplies and how much they take. And those who do get caught taking water they have no right to often...
Mar 23, 2014 | Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Water News Highlights, Water Quality
Good coverage on SJV groundwater issues from SJ Mercury News. Photo: The River Project.
Mar 22, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
World Water Day: How Levi Strauss Saved 770 Million Liters in Two Years. See report in Ecowatch. Photo: Ecowatch
Feb 26, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights, Water Quality, Water Reuse
The River Project’s website http://www.theriverproject.org/index.php Home Page If you were a Chumash Native American living 300 years ago or even a resident living in Los Angeles in the early 1900s you would have witnessed a lovely rambling L.A. River that would...
Feb 24, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights, Water Reuse
The Tao Te Ching goes on to say: “Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore, it is near The Eternal.” And yet, we humans constantly commit acts that show our disregard and disrespect for this most...
Feb 23, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water Legislation, Water News Highlights
Peter Gleick Testifies on Urban Water Use Efficiency for State Water Resources Control Board. Logo The Pacific Institute
Feb 5, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights, Water Quality, Water Reuse
BIG WATERSHED PROJECTS-Recharge water to the aquifer All dams and spreading grounds in the watershed are targeted for improvements that would generate a meaningful increase in the total volume of stormwater recharged to groundwater. Big Tujunga Dam would be...
Feb 5, 2014 | Water Quality
Garbage Dump, Pollution and Water Timeline for Sunshine Canyon Landfill Both the L.A. City & County owned land in Sunshine Canyon 1991 Old City Dump was closed. 1996 County expansion opened in 1996 1999 City passed the expansion & reopening of the Sunshine...
Feb 5, 2014 | Water Conservation, Water Quality
All the places where Los Angeles gets its water All the places where Los Angeles gets its water Los Angeles (L.A.) has many ways of getting water and there have been legal water wars started over how much water belongs to thirsty Los Angeles. You can observe the water...
Jan 12, 2014 | Sierra Club California, Water Conservation
Posted on 17 January 2014 By Arvind Kumar Water is a scarce and precious natural resource in California, yet two thirds of the water used in homes goes toward watering the yard. What can the home gardener do to use less water, enjoy the garden more, and help the...
Jul 15, 2013 | Event Galleries
Caption one for Julie...
May 24, 2013 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
THE GUARDIAN Experts call on governments to start conserving water in face of climate change, pollution and over-use Friday 24 May 2013 The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the space of two generations as...
May 2, 2013 | Ocean Desalination, Water News Highlights
Posted on 2 May 2013 By jrobinson As you may be aware the Sierra Club has taken a strong position opposing the Poseidon Huntington Beach Desalination Plant due to its destructive impacts on ocean water quality and climate change. There is a critical vote coming up...
Apr 29, 2013 | Water Conservation, Water News Highlights
Posted on 29 April 2013 By Charming Evelyn If you live in Southern California, you’ve probably seen the television ad with the hand turning off a light switch and exhorting you to “Flex Your Power.” Have you ever stopped and thought about that statement and what is...
Apr 15, 2013 | Water Legislation, Water News Highlights, Water Quality
Posted on 15 April 2013 From Sierra Club reports SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on April 8 ruled that the Obama Administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also...
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