Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming City Council consent agendas. Consent agenda items are routinely passed by the council with little or no discussion from elected officials or the public.
CITYWIDE — The Metropolitan Water District announced a 10 percent rate increase Tuesday, but that won’t have any impact on Santa Monicans, according to city officials.
SM BAY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on Tuesday announced plans to reduce pollution entering the Santa Monica Bay and other local lakes, rivers and streams.
Dear EarthTalk: I was horrified to read recently that our oceans are actually becoming acidic, that the continued burning of fossil fuels is changing the chemistry of our seas.
As Winston Churchill might describe it, Theresa Rebeck’s play “The Water’s Edge” is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” There are more mixed emotions, contradictions, outright lies, duplicity, passion and chills in this dramatic masterpiece than in any play you’re likely to see in this
Dear EarthTalk How is it that global warming could negatively impact water supplies in the U.S.? Penny Wilcox Austin, Texas Climate change promises to have a very big impact on water supplies in the United States as well as around the world.
SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School’s girls’ volleyball team hosts Rio Hondo Prep in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 3-AA playoffs today at 7 p.
SM BAY — The California State Water Resources Control Board decided not to decide. On Oct. 18, the board was going to determine the fate of areas across California’s coastline that have been protected from harmful discharges by the California Ocean Plan since 1983.
SM BAY — The California State Water Resources Control Board might have a fight on its hands. On Tuesday, the State Water Board will decide on a policy that will damage the California coastline; at least, that’s what some environmental agencies, like the Santa Monica Baykeeper, are saying.
CORSAIR FIELD — St. Monica’s football team will play its only Friday night home game today at Santa Monica College. The 2-2 Mariners will host Pasadena Blair at 7 p.
SM BEACH — For the second straight year the beach at the historic Santa Monica Pier, once known for having some of the dirtiest water in the state, earned a much-improved A grade on Heal the Bay’s end of the summer Beach Report Card, which was released Tuesday.
When I was a kid I was “born again,” a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I was walking with kindly poured her drinking water on my hot little head.
