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UCLA flood: Sticker shop owners create project to offset water loss
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Nov 4, 2014
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UCLA flood: Sticker shop owners create project to offset water loss
This summer's water main break at UCLA sent 20 million gallons of water gushing into streets, storm drains and into the ocean, all during a drought. The owners of Sticker Planet launched "Make it Up LA" to help conserve water.
Moved by the recent water main break at UCLA that flooded campus with 20 million gallons of water, Hilary and Richard Kraft created a website titled "Make it up LA" to encourage a grass roots water conservation project.
Moved by the recent water main break at UCLA that flooded campus with 20 million gallons of water, Hilary and Richard Kraft created a website titled "Make it up LA" to encourage a grass roots water conservation project.
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This summer's water main break at UCLA sent 20 million gallons of water gushing into streets, storm drains and into the ocean, all during a drought. The owners of Sticker Planet launched "Make it Up LA" to help conserve water.

When that massive water main break flooded portions of UCLA this summer it sent 20 million gallons of water gushing into the streets, down the storm drains and out into the ocean.

That figure seems particularly painful in light of the devastating drought the state has been experiencing.

Southern California Public Radio's Molly Peterson met two Angelenos who are working on ways to offset the loss of water.