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.
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
What Did We Do With All That Rain?
Unusually Heavy Precipitation October-December 2010 Despite a strong La Niña condition, the western United States received huge amounts of precipitation from October through December 2010. Only the Pacific Northwest experienced less precipitation than usual....
Water Committee 2010 Resolution
WE RESOLVE to strenuously advocate for permanent water conservation policy. The Water Committee will continue to advocate for permanent water conservation policy in Southern California including but not limited to water recycling and the implementation of purple...
METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT Water Summit
At the 2010 Metropolitan Water District's recent Water Summit conference, three presenters, whose remarks are summarized below, stated that large amounts of water are used in the production of energy. In turn, large amounts of energy are used to extract, move, and...
WHERE DOES OUR WATER COME FROM? The Long Journey To Your Faucet
By The Editor An aqueduct in Southern California 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...
Water Committee Celebrates Anniversary With a Win
Posted on 30 June 2010 By Charming Evelyn As we go to press, the Water Committee received some good news just in time to celebrate its anniversary. In fact, it's the best kind of news any conservation committee can hope for: that our hard work is paying off, that...
Water Committee 2009 Resolution
Posted on 31 December 2009 By Charming Evelyn WE RESOLVE to strenuously advocate for permanent water conservation policy. The Water Committee will continue to advocate for permanent water conservation policy in Southern California including but not limited to water...
The Water-Energy Nexus
Posted on 31 July 2009 By The Editor In Southern California, water use is inextricably linked with energy consumption Treating and distributing water in California requires 19% of the electricity used in California, and 30% of natural gas consumed in California. I...
Take Action: Report Water Waste
Posted on 31 July 2009 By The Editor We've all witnessed water abuse: broken sprinklers flooding a sidewalk, sprinklers spraying on rainy days, hoses left running.With the state of California in its third year of drought, and with imported supplies of water in...