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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.
SIGN A PETITION
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
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City Water Conservation Project
"The Water Conservation Project" by Abha Nath, Braden Currey and Viabhav Verma "The Water Conservation Project" by Abha Nath, Braden Currey and Viabhav Verma The Water Conservation Committee is proud to present and recognize the work of Abha, Braden and...
City Water Conservation Measures
City Water Conservation Measures The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter has released a Water Conservation Measures Scorecard that rates the cities in Los Angeles and Orange counties, California, by the number of mandatory water conservation measures enacted. Cities are...
Water Report – Mira Costa High School Water Conservation Project
"The Water Conservation Project" by Abha Nath, Braden Currey and Viabhav Verma The Water Conservation Committee is proud to present and recognize the work of Abha, Braden and Vaibhav, the authors of "The Water Conservation Project". They are the new generation of...
Desertification: The next dust bowl
By Joseph Romm Drought is the most pressing problem caused by climate change. It receives too little attention. Which impact of anthropogenic global warming will harm the most people in the coming decades? I believe that the answer is extended or permanent drought...
How Green … Is Your Water : Get Involved!
Posted on 30 June 2011 By The Editor Methodology: All ordinaces were reviewed between August 2009 and November 2010 by volunteers of the Water Conservation Committee, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club and students from UCLA. All ordinances were reviewed at multiple...
Celebrating World Water day with a song and a video
Today (Tuesday) is World Water Day. Created by the United Nations, WWD highlights the scarcity of potable water, a crisis that is ongoing in every region of our increasingly thirsty planet including singer Charmaine Clamor's birth country, the Philippines. To...
L.A. County responsible for polluted runoff that flows into sea, appellate panel rules
Flood control district said its channels and storm drains were just conduits for upstream polluters. The federal judges side with plaintiffs regarding the L.A. and San Gabriel rivers, but not Malibu Creek and the Santa Clara River. By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times...
A Member Agency turns on the Metropolitan Water District
A MEMBER AGENCY TURNS ON THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT By Stephenie J. Frederick Seven years after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) developed a new regional pricing system (which became effective in 2003), the San Diego County Water...
Report targets waste, inefficiency in agricultural water use
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times A state expert says small changes in irrigation practices could yield significant water savings. California should more aggressively enforce the state's ban on wasteful water use and crack down on inefficient irrigation practices,...