Science of Water
The City of Avalon (Catalina Island) gets their water source from this process known for
removing salt from seawater.
What is desalination?
This proposed $140 million yearly tax would bring in $110 million from water utilities and about $30 million from the agriculture industry to fund a safe drinking water program for disadvantaged communities in California.
What is Water Tax?
On average, this percentage of Southern California's water comes from Northern California via the State Water Project.
What is 30%?
Founded in 1928, this agency is the largest water agency in the United States and the wholesale water purchaser for 28 of its member public agencies.
What is Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?
An extended period of less than normal amounts of rainfall.
What is a drought?
This is an underground layer of permeable sediment that stores groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
Originally enacted in 1948, this act comprises most of California's regulations for water use, management, and distribution.
What is CA Water Code?
This body of water provides roughly a third of Southern California’s water supply.
What is the Colorado River?
This facility is the largest wastewater treatment plant operated by the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County with a capacity of 400 million gallons per day and a current flow of 250 million gallons per day (enough to fill the Rose Bowl three times a day).
What is Joint Water Pollution Control Plant (JWPCP)?
Where two or more bodies of water come together.
What is a confluence?
A coastal area where fresh water from rivers mixes with ocean water and salinity is between the extremes of seawater and freshwater.
What is an estuary?
In this year, the State of California adopted the Human Right to Water (Water Code 106.3) to recognize that "every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes."
What is 2012?
On average, 48% of all water used in California comes from this source.
What is groundwater?
This plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world.
What is Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant?
This is a bi-product when sea water is mixed in with fresh water sources.
What is brackish water?
The method that introduces purified water directly into an existing water supply system.
What is direct potable reuse?
This law, which went into effect in January of 2014, gives local agencies the opportunity to develop groundwater sustainability plans and better manage priority groundwater basins in California. The goal is to help water agencies achieve sustainable
groundwater by 2042.
What is Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)?
This body of water is the hub of California’s water supply, supplying fresh water to two-thirds of the state’s population and millions of acres of farmland.
What is The Delta?
This agency provides water to more than 400 industrial, commercial, and public facilities in
the South Bay, including Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Honda, and Mattel.
What is West Basin Water District?
This chemical process applies pressure to wastewater to separate large particles and contaminants in water for reuse.
What is reverse osmosis?
This program regulates storm water discharges through a system of conveyance that comes
from roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, or
storm drains.
What is the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Program?
At 343 square miles this is California's largest lake and is home to North America’s largest population of migratory waterfowl outside of the Everglades, providing vital nesting habitat for 2/3 of the bird species in the Continental US.
What is Salton Sea?
This plant treats approximately 30 million gallons of surface water per day to reduce the City of Fresno's dependence of groundwater and maximize access to water from the Kings River.
What is Southeast Surface Water Treatment Facility (SESWTF)?