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Please join us to celebrate the extraordinary life of LA Councilman Tom LaBonge who sadly passed away January 7, 2021. Mr. Labonge was a champion for our public environments, including Griffith Park. WeTap will miss him dearly.
Did you know?
In 2012, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed a series of bills to help ensure the availability of clean drinking water. He said, “Protecting the water we drink is an absolutely crucial duty of state government.”
Be Informed:
The mission of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is to provide its service area with adequate and reliable supplies of high-quality water to meet present and future needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way.
Microplastics and nanoplastics are emerging as a potential risk factor for cardiovascular disease in preclinical studies.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822
Why Drinking Bottled Water Can Be Much Worse for You Than Tap, According to New Research
https://www.foodandwine.com/is-tap-water-safe-to-drink-study-8773069
Water Conservation Now in Los Angeles
To read about the water in Los Angeles and see testing results and water quality information, please see LADWP’s water quality report:
LADWP Hydration Station and Initiative Program:
You can study the EPA for water quality information and download your water quality reports for the safety of your local public drinking water. For example, if you live in Los Angeles, LADWP provides safe and affordable drinking water as you can see on their annual drinking water quality report.
Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy By: Lisa Kass Boyle, and Evelyn Wendel
Leno Bill 1413 reclaims making free fresh drinking water available to students. Click here to read more.
Los Angeles Council Member Tom LaBonge and Council Member Jose Huizar introduce the Motion to the Energy and Environment Committee to upgrade, restore and bring back public drinking fountains in public spaces in the City of LA. Click here to read more.
LADWP encourages it’s customers to use drinking fountains. Click here to read more.
Fact Sheets: Water in Schools
Raw Deal: School beverage contracts less lucrative then they seem. Click here to read more.
The NRDC: No one should assume that just because he or she purchases water in a bottle that it is necessarily any better regulated, purer, or safer than most tap water. Click here to read more.
Bottled Water Costs Consumers and the Environment. Click here to read more.
This book describes how the current system works (or doesn’t work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water
and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist
Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful
primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.
https://www.ucpress.edu/flyer/books/managing-water/paper
Links
Read about WeTap in Mayor Garcetti Green New Deal
California: Our Water is ‘Safe to Drink’
The California Water Quality Monitoring Council
Public Drinking Water Policy On Tap At A Fountain Near You
Los Angeles Unified School District’s Drinking Water Quality Program
Tap Water Day - HISTORIC TWD LINKS
Drinking Water For Students in Schools
Raw Deal: School Beverage Contracts Less Lucrative Than They Seem
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: Preserve and protect our biological heritage.