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
California’s drought: 10 ways to save water
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...
Global majority faces water shortages ‘within two generations’.
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...
What’s water got to do with energy? Everything
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...
Desalination destroys the environment and isn’t a quick fix for Southern California’s water woes
Posted on 4 March 2013 By By Ray Hiemstra Many people in Southern California think that we are in a perpetual drought and will not have enough water to sustain ourselves. Unfortunately, this common fear is fueling misguided support for ocean desalination, the process...
The Ozone Hole: It’s Still Up There, Changing Oceans, Maybe Climate | Mother Jones
The ozone hole—the thinning of ozone in the lower stratosphere above Antarctica—has changed the way that waters in the Southern Ocean mix. And that has the potential to change how much CO2 the ocean sequesters from the atmosphere. Hence the course of global climate...
4 Ways Drought Threatens U.S. Drinking Water and Aquatic Life by Jennifer Mueller
The worst U.S. drought since 1956 has been affecting the taste, smell and appearance of tap water across the country. So far officials in places as far flung as Southern California and Connecticut claim that drought-caused water quality problems are an issue of taste...
The future of water in Los Angeles: What the Israeli experience can show us.
In envisioning a road to a new water future, it may be helpful to study the experience of other countries that have made radical changes in their water portfolios. One such country is Israel. Israel has suffered a chronic water shortage for years and has embarked on a...
Help preserve Mojave Desert water resources
Posted on 20 July 2012 By J. Robinson Don't steal Mojave Desert water for Orange County lawns and pools! Orange County’s Santa Margarita Water District and The Cadiz, Inc. are proposing to divert precious Mojave Desert water resources. This project is an aggressive...
Why I Joined The Water Committee
Posted on 30 June 2011 By James Gross One of my reasons for joining the Angeles Chapters Water Committee has to do with a strong interest in water Since Southern California is at best a semi-arid region, I hold water conservation to be highly important. I have lived...
Water Recycling
Visit the Japanese Garden with Tillman Water Reclamation Facility and see the beautiful things that happen to your waste water! Our household waste water first gets processed at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant near the Japanese Garden (Photo by Gayle Dufour) Next...