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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SB 1383 Tackling Hunger, Waste and Climate
Posted on 1 February 2021 By Dr. Jim Stewart & Hoiyin Ip Nearly one in four Californians suffer from food insecurity. Yet more than 11 billion pounds of edible food is wasted every year in California. Organic waste, including food waste, decomposes in landfills...
Mapping Our Water
Posted on 25 February 2021 By Lore Pekrul and Chuck Gooley 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...
Orange County: Waste, Water and Energy
Posted on 8 January 2021 By Hoiyin Ip pv>One of my favorite quotes over the years is by Gloria Steinem: "In each of these stages of campaigning, I've been inspired, angry, hopeless, hopeful, sleepless, surprised, betrayed, exhausted, educated, energized, despairing,...
Cadiz Water Mining Project Falters with Public Scrutiny, Election Setbacks
Posted on 2 December 2020 By John Monsen LA County Water District Efforts to Support Desert-Damaging Water Mining Project Falter as Cadiz Inc. Suffers Major Election Setbacks Updated 12/07/20 Cadiz Inc, a Los Angeles-based corporation, still hopes to drill for water...
Water A Public Resource: How Privatization Happens Pt. 2
Posted on 31 August 2020 By Demitri Fierro, Communications Committee Volunteer Sometimes community health itself can be used as an excuse to pursue corporate dollars... When it comes to public health, one easily believes that community wellness takes priority over...
Where Does Our Water Come From?
Posted on 31 July 2009 By The Editor Turn on your faucet, and what do you get? Rain that fell on Mount Shasta? Snow from the Feather River watershed in the Sierras? Glacial melt from the Colorado Rockies? Water from deep sandy aquifers far beneath your feet that...
Water A Public Resource: How Privatization Happens
Posted on 31 July 2020 By Demitri Fierro Water has been a fundamental pillar of civilization since antiquity, and access to clean water is a basic universal right to be enjoyed by us all. As it is our most vital resource, we each have a moral responsibility to see...
Water A Public Resource: How Privatization Happens – Part 1
Posted on 31 July 2020 By Demitri Fierro Water has been a fundamental pillar of civilization since antiquity, and access to clean water is a basic universal right to be enjoyed by us all. As it is our most vital resource, we each have a moral responsibility to see...
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:...