By Alec Mackie, Guest writer After two years of hefty rainfall, our reservoirs are refilling and California’s water outlook is looking better. Our next big water challenge is a shrinking workforce as specialized workers have reached retirement age and are leaving....
Water News Highlights Articles
Ecological Impacts of Southern California’s Thirst on the Owens Valley Region
By Jackson Goulding “There it is. Take it”. William Mulholland, mastermind behind the now 110 year old Los Angeles Aqueduct, spoke these words as water first surged down through the channel and began to make its way towards Southern California. Now over a century...
Hydrogen: Not a Silver Bullet Climate Solution
By Teresa Cheng, California Field Manager Hydrogen has been touted as a clean energy panacea to replace polluting sources including gas plants, airplanes and heavy industry. The Biden administration has infused billions of dollars to kickstart the budding hydrogen...
Metropolitan’s Budget Woes
By Caty Wagner Metropolitan Water District (MWD), the water wholesaler for Southern California, whose 19 million residents make it the largest wholesaler in the country, has a budget proposal up for a vote on April 9. MWD is proposing a whopping 21% increase in water...
Residential Stormwater Capture, You Can DIY
By Dr. C. Tom Williams, PhD Real Time Experience with Putting the LID on Runoff – Where to put the runoff? As part of a settlement regarding the pollution of Santa Monica Bay, the County and City of Los Angeles developed the concept of collecting and reducing surface...
SoCal’s Water Resilient Future looks like VenturaWaterPure
By Conner Everts & Kellie Prather Southern California Cities are moving towards independence from imported water from faraway watersheds and the Bay Delta Estuary. Given the extremes of dry and wet weather with climate change, forward thinking Southern California...
Sinking Thinking – Contrasts in Approaches to Water Law & Policy
Angeles Chapter’s Water Committee’s newer member Shirley Nixon, a former public interest environmental lawyer from WA state, ponders her continuing discoveries of differences between Washington & California’s approaches to water management. As I drove south from...
Depleting an Ancient Desert Aquifer? Cadiz Is At It Again
By Bryan Baker To the untrained eye and incurious, the California desert may seem a barren wasteland. When I was a kid, my family would drive across the desert toward points east or north, and I’d be bored through the hours it took to get through the seemingly endless...
Update on the Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Modifications
By Yvonne Martinez Watson The Whittier Narrows Dam is an earthen dam constructed in 1957 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The dam stretches across a narrow gap between the Montebello Hills and the Whittier Hills at the confluence of the Rio Hondo and San...
Why isn’t the LA Regional Board Doing More to Protect Groundwater?
Why isn't the LA Regional Board Doing More to Protect Groundwater? Protecting Groundwater Through the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board By: Annelisa Ehret Moe, Heal the Bay & Charming Evelyn From the mountains, through our streets, rivers, and...