By Jane Sooby The August 21, 2025, meeting of the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board was devoted mostly to discussion on developing an Alternative Water Supply Program (AWS). The meeting, characterized as the first “public workshop” on the...
By S. Mehmet Ozsoy, Concordia University and Erkan Yonder, Concordia University Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and...
When more densely populated Altadena and Pacific Palisades burned along with surrounding wildlands, hazards for residents didn’t stop when the fires were contained. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier, EOS The 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires torched scrub-lined slopes of the...
By Jane Sooby During its August 22 meeting, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously to amend the region’s Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) General Order and exempt growers in the Pit River subwatershed from having to...
By Devon Provo, an urban planner and senior policy manager at Accelerate Resilience L.A. This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Most mornings, I walk my dog at Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena, pausing by...