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On Main Street in Santa Monica, Calif., a parking lot sits between the courthouse and a boarded-up convention center. Visitors looking for a parking spot or charging their electric vehicles would never guess that a world-class water management system churning out millions of gallons of purified water sits underneath it.

The city’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP) is a state-of-the-art water recycling system that has helped bring Santa Monica 85 percent of the way to complete water self-sufficiency. Groundwater from the Santa Monica Basin is the major source of supply for the city, augmented by purchases from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. In 2011, the city was importing almost half its water, generating fears about what officials would do in case of an emergency.

California’s wild salmon have faced just about every obstacle imaginable over the decades as they now cling to survival. Dams have blocked where they are supposed to spawn. Levees deny young fish the floodplain for feasting. Pumps send them in deadly wrong directions.

But all the previous man-made threats to the salmon have nothing on President Donald Trump.

 

After a hot start to the week, we are prepping for a significant storm as models give us a better idea of what to expect.

An atmospheric river will bring periods of heavy rainfall and mountain snow, gusty winds and thunderstorms to California mainly Friday and Saturday in Southern California.