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Felicia Federico, executive director of UCLA’s California Center for Sustainable Communities and the lead author – along with a team of recent UCLA graduates — of the center’s latest environmental report card, indicated that whereas the city has a long way to go toward water sustainability, but help is on …

A new pilot program has been launched by numerous organizations in Southern California to aid residents in selecting more native plants for their homes and gardens to become even more water-efficient. Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California and local water agencies have teamed up with the California Native Plant …

The Western United States has increasing been subject to the whims of Mother Nature regarding the availability of water supplies. Managing in an era of multi-year droughts, deluges and floods, and the need to protect and replenish dwindling groundwater basins is a challenge for any water manager. Last year President …

Although projected to take 11 years to fully complete – and a host of required approvals in the process – the Regional Recycled Water Advanced Purification Center, a new water recycling demonstration plant, celebrated the start of operations last week. It’s a major step forward in the potential construction of …

Help is on the way, both immediate and long-term, for the nitrate and salt contamination of groundwater basins and surface water in the Central Valley. Although the long-term resolution may be a multi-year process, stakeholders have developed a plan to address one of the region’s most challenging water quality problems. …

Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Tracy Quinn and Glendale City Councilman Vartan Gharpetian recently joined the Board of Directors for Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Quinn succeeds Mark Gold, who served as a NRDC director since April 2016. Gharpetian replaces Zareh Sinanyan, who represented the Glendale City Council on …