UCLA faculty voice: El Nino isn’t a drought buster – it’s a missed opportunity
January 20, 2016
When Los Angeles waterways like the Ballona Creek surge on rainy days, most of that water is lost to runoff rather than retained for usage by our water systems.
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Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, foreshadows tens of billions of gallons of lost water runoff resulting from Los Angeles’ lack of appropriate infrastructure to capture and store rainfall.
Read more at UCLA Newsroom