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If it’s perfectly safe to drink purified wastewater (and it is), why aren’t drought-plagued including California states drinking more of it?
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The $1 billion in funding so far has mostly helped clear a backlog of water infrastructure efforts by cities and L.A. County, but new green space lags.
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To state the obvious: California has a water problem. But experts say conservation alone can’t solve our water woes. Should recycled sewage water play a bigger role?
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Disturbed by unrelenting heat waves, massive wildfires, disappearing beaches, and worsening droughts? Here’s what you need to know.
It’s one of the reasons the fire department is relying more on mobile water stations for their helicopters.
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The multi-family homes were red tagged by authorities late Wednesday. -
With the storm expected to park itself over L.A., dangerous debris flows and flooding are still a concern across SoCal. -
Like for hurricanes, there's a scale for atmospheric rivers. But it may be a while before it's the norm. -
Forecasts put much of the state at risk for flooding over the next 1 to 7 days — although most of that danger is north of Los Angeles. -
National Weather Service reports rain is expected to return Thursday — with the heaviest showers north of L.A. -
It was so nice to see white sprinkled on the hills around our valleys. -
From the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains to the northern Sierra Nevada, a lot of California is buried in snow. But as the climate crisis drives increasingly severe weather, dangerous flooding is more likely. -
Not all of this rain goes to the ocean, but increasingly unpredictable and intense storms driven by climate change are making stormwater capture more difficult. -
In the face of a drier future, that iconic piece of Americana is on its way out in Southern California.
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