When: Sunday, June 7th from 2-4 p.m. Where: Hyperion Treatment Plant RSVP: Click here to register
We will be joined by:
David Hayes, Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School & former Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior for Presidents Clinton and Obama
Mike Sweeney, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy in California
Jeff Kightlinger, General Manager, Metropolitan Water District
Celeste Cantu, General Manager, Santa Ana Watershed Protection Authority
Doors will open at 1 p.m. to give you a chance to tour the Environmental Learning Center's Water's Many LA Ways - so you can nerd out on your water footprint, recycled water, urban runoff, the science behind water treatment, and much more!
For our May Times Book Club pick, we're turning our attention to the most burning issue facing California: water.
I’m pleased to announce Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water” as a jumping off point for an in-depth, nuanced discussion about the crisis posed by the current mega-drought.
The great historian Bernard De Voto once said, “The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below 20 inches.” It’s this scarcity that both unites the West and puts us at odds with each other.
We and our neighbors in Las Vegas draw on the Colorado River; we and our neighbors in San Francisco rely on water from the Sierras. To complicate things further, we have hyper-local water delivery systems and a tangle of regulations, statues, treaties, and court decrees ranging from city to international levels.
With the help of “Cadillac Desert,” additional readings, and a group of distinguished water experts, we aim to move beyond a zero-sum blame game of farmers vs. urban dwellers, North vs. South, or California vs. Nevada.
