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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...

With half of the world’s population experiencing water scarcity for at least a month a year,1 we are teetering on the brink of a global crisis. Our freshwater sources are stretched thinner and thinner as our populations grow and climate change...

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 Gabriel...

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Can and Must Do More to Protect Groundwater By: Annelisa Ehret Moe, Heal the Bay & Charming Evelyn From the mountains, through our streets, rivers, and neighborhoods, and down to the ocean...

  WeTap and the Sierra Club are the perfect ‘water partners.’ Collaboration and communication are the keys to healthy communities and a clean environment.    The mission of WeTap is to: Bring greater awareness...

For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana, Mexico has, and continues, to flow across the border into San Diego, California.  This discharge flows into the Tijuana River Valley, and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.  This pollution has negatively...

On Thursday, February 22nd, the Metro Board voted (11-0) to approve the EIR for Frank McCourt's LA Art Gondola Project. A disappointing outcome. This was despite the dozens of community activists (Chinatown residents, environmentalists,...

In the aftermath of the recent storms that have swept through California, leaving a trail of power outages and flooding, the importance of resilient and sustainable energy solutions has never been clearer. At Swell Energy, we believe that renewable...

An overview of growing an edible garden with limited water. We all (hopefully) know the moment of bliss when you bite into a fresh plum or pick the first vine-ripened tomato of the season. The burst of flavor is often described as truly out of this...