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?
A new bill, enacted in 2019, grants the State Water Quality Board expanded authority to mandate that water agencies monitor this contaminant dubbed "forever chemicals."
What are Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)?
This body of water traverses 52 miles through a major metropolitan area.
What is the LA River?
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?
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.
What is the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)?
This body of water provides roughly a third of Southern California’s water supply.
What is the Colorado River?
This facility is California's (and the nation's) largest water recycling facility. It currently processes and purifies 100 million gallons of water per day.
What is the Groundwater Replenishment System?
Farmer Joe Del Bosque loves this fruit more than his own children.
What are melons?
The flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flow over the Earth's surface. This can occur when precipation falls onto impervious surfaces, or rain arrives more quickly than soil can absorb it.
What is runoff?
This project, currently under environmental review, proposes a single tunnel solution to distribute water from Northern California down to Southern California.
What is State Water Project/Delta Conveyance Program?
On average, 48% of all water used in California comes from this source.
What is groundwater?
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)?
Self, Us, and Now
What are the three components of Public Narrative?
The method that introduces purified water directly into an existing water supply system.
What is direct potable reuse?
The number of regional boards delineated by the State Water Quality Control Board, whose mission is to preserve, enhance, and restore the quality of California's water resources.
What is nine?
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 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 leader protected workers rights by focusing on eliminating pesticides in the fields.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This chemical process applies pressure to wastewater to separate large particles and contaminants in water for reuse.
What is reverse osmosis?
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?
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 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 describes the concept of all of the information that is currently present in the universe.
What is WIGO?