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CA Water Board Approves 25% Mandatory Water Conservation Regulation
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. proclaimed a State of Emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these drought conditions.
Dept of Water Resources’ Drought information | State Water Board Drought Year Water Actions | US Drought Portal- Updated Daily | California Water Action Plan | Governor Brown’s Executive Order to Redouble State Drought Actions
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Property Assessed Clean Energy Programs (PACE)
PACE Programs allow homeowners and businesses to make energy and water efficiency
improvements and pay them off through their property tax bill. Property owners in Los
Angeles County can now take advantage of these programs to help finance energy and
water efficiency projects.
LA Hero | CaliforniaFIRST
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2015 Green Leadership Award Program
On behalf of the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, we are pleased to invite you to submit applications for the 2015 “Green Leadership Award” program. This program recognizes outstanding efforts by individuals and organizations in fulfilling innovative strategies to improve our environmental sustainability.
GLA Application | GLA Guidelines | 2015 GLA Winners | County Digest: GLA Winners
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Help for County Departments Wishing to Work on Climate Change/Sustainability Issues!
Are you a local government in California, including a County Department, looking to increase clean energy options, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and safeguard against climate change impacts? Do you need staffing to identify and implement sustainable community strategies? Click on this title for an overview of the program.
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At 1 drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons per year.
Water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms: solid, liquid and gas.
If you drink your daily recommended 8 glasses of water per day from the tap, it will cost you about 50 cents per year. If you choose to drink it from water bottles, it can cost you up to $1,400 dollars.
A running toilet can waste up to 200 gallons of water per day.
Taking a bath requires up to 70 gallons of water. A five-minute shower uses only 10 to 25 gallons.
The average faucet flows at a rate of 2 gallons per minute. You can save up to four gallons of water every morning by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth.
At 50 gallons per day, residential Europeans use about half of the water that residential Americans use.
Americans use more water each day by flushing the toilet than they do by showering or any other activity.
American residents use about 100 gallons of water per day.
It takes seven and a half years for the average American residence to use the same amount of water that flows over the Niagara Falls in one second (750,000 gallons).
It takes six and a half years for the average American residence to use the amount of water required to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool (660,000 gallons).
In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside).
Nearly one-half of the water used by Americans is used for thermoelectric power generation.
Approximately 400 billion gallons of water are used in the United States per day.
Water boils quicker in Denver, Colorado than in New York City.
If all of the water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere fell at once, distributed evenly, it would only cover the earth with about an inch of water.
There is more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all of the rivers on the planet combined.
A ten meter rise in sea levels due to melting glaciers would flood 25% of the population of the United States.
Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.
Water covers 70.9% of the Earth’s surface.
1.7% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.
30% of fresh water is in the ground.
68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is
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