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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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
Why you should want to pay more for L.A.’s water and electricity
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 proposal,...
Residential Water Consumption in Los Angeles
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...
The hard work of measuring snowpack
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 Radio.
California drought puts spotlight on water theft
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...
World Water Day: How Levi Strauss Saved 770 Million Liters in Two Years
World Water Day: How Levi Strauss Saved 770 Million Liters in Two Years. See report in Ecowatch. Photo: Ecowatch
Groundwater Recharge, Retension & Pollution
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...
The Highest Good is like Water
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...
Peter Gleick testifies on Urban Water
Peter Gleick Testifies on Urban Water Use Efficiency for State Water Resources Control Board. Logo The Pacific Institute
Los Angeles Depends on Imported Water
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...
Tujunga/Pacoima Watershed Projects and Plans
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...