Water Conservation
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Good Mythical Morning teaches us about interesting SoCal Water Rules
Black Women for Wellness' Environmental Justice team has released a comprehensive water guide aimed at addressing water equity in South LA. Download the Guide here.
Water Districts
Visit your Water District’s web site for water conservation hints, free workshops and products, useful rebates, and beautiful garden plant recommendations.
This is too much water just to rinse a dish.
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Add your voice and signature to this Sierra Club AddUp campaign:
Water Saving Programs in Los Angeles
The LADWP manages a Turf Replacement Program that pays homeowners to re-landscape in water-saving ways:
The LADWP’s City Plants program offers free trees (and planting and delivery too!):
Check out the Los Angeles Outdoor Landscape Academy, free workshops offered by LADWP, Metropolitan Water District of So Cal, the Thomas Payne Foundation, and Green Gardens Group:
Conservation Tips
The Calfornia Native Plant Society’s Calscape shows people which plants are really native to any location in the state, helping them figure out which ones they want, where to buy them and how to grow them.
Calscape’s Garden Planner finds you the perfect native plants for your garden in just 4 questions.
Native Monarch’s Creating Habitat guide helps source truly local milkweed varieties critical to support the Monarch butterfly population.
Free Mulch and Compost Programs
A collection of compiled links to Free Mulch and Compost Programs run by local Southern California cities and countes.
The Los Angeles Department of Sanitation and Environment has made a Free Mulch Giveaway Program available to all residents in nine different locations throughout the city.
The best ways to save water in California is planting natives
Green your home with free trees from City Plants
The Los Angeles Garden Rebate in action
WATER CONSERVATION EDUCATION
Teachers and Parents
Teachers and Parents can visit their local Water District’s web site to learn more about their free Water Education (including Water Conservation) programs and educational materials.
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Water Conservation Posts
Black Women for Wellness Releases Comprehensive Guide on Water Quality in South LA
Black Women for Wellness' Environmental Justice team has released a comprehensive water guide aimed at addressing water equity in South LA. The Drinking Water Guide for South Los Angeles is a resource to give residents the information they deserve about their water,...
Groundwater & SGMA
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
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...
Did You Know that Graywater is Legal in the State of CA?
Posted on 21 June 2019 By Charles Alex Malotte What is graywater? Graywater (also spelled “greywater” or “gray water”) is water from showers, tubs, bathroom sinks, and clothes washers. Graywater does not include sewage. Graywater is an ideal resource for reuse:...
Tell WeHo to STOP Wasting Precious Water
Tell West Hollywood to STOP throwing precious water down the drain. Much of West Hollywood, which inhabits less than two square miles, sits on a very high or shallow water table. For the past decade there has been an exorbitant increase in the permitting of...
West Basin and the Angeles Chapter
Posted on 30 April 2021 By Scott Houston World Water Day may annually be recognized on March 22, but we must honor and respect water every day as we confront climate change in order to ensure we have adequate supplies of safe, affordable water to meet our needs. The...
Will Barons of Blue Water be More Equitable than those of Black Oil?
Posted on 17 February 2021 By William Smith Many of today’s under-resourced communities have no more access to blue gold (scarce water) than the under-resourced white residents of the Owens Valley have had since the 1920s. In 1924 greedy public and private water...
Poseidon’s Toxic Desalination Proposal
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 plan is simple, add more...
My Experience as a Water Board Director
Posted on 22 February 2021 by Conner Everts 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...
What’s in your Water
Posted on 17 February 2021 By Filomena Fuchs, Water Committee Member As part of the Sierra Club’s long-standing efforts to protect sources, supplies, and just access to water throughout the country, the Angeles Chapter Water Committee is preparing a tool to evaluate...