Water Crisis

It’s a combination of geography, atmospheric conditions and how we build.

It’s one of the reasons the fire department is relying more on mobile water stations for their helicopters.

The state is doling out millions to support local water supply projects.

The state extended a drought regulation banning using drinkable water to irrigate grass at commercial, industrial and institutional properties.

To best protect wetlands, permitting and enforcement need to be sorted.

Our winter weather could see the biggest impacts.

The Farm Aid hotline now offers mental health resources through its first Spanish-language operator.

Usually about half of our water supply comes from the L.A. aqueduct. This year it’ll be about 100% through summer.

With the change in seasons comes more risk of fire and flood. And the climate crisis is making it all more extreme.

Snowpack in the eastern Sierra has broken the record set in 1969, but L.A. says it will maintain current watering restrictions, at least for now.