The Sustainable Environmental Report Card for Los Angeles County

This 2019 Environmental Report Card on Water provides an in-depth look at the region’s efforts to move toward a more resilient local water supply. This requires maximizing high-quality local water supplies, improving water conveyance and treatment infrastructure, reducing water consumption, and implementing innovative technology and policy solutions. Researchers looked at 20 indicators across eight categories: water supply and consumption, drinking water quality, local water infrastructure, groundwater, surface water quality, industrial and sewage treatment plant discharges, water-energy nexus, and beach water quality. This year’s grades range from D/ Incomplete to B+, and although there has been great progress in some areas, others still require significant improvement to raise the county’s C+ average.

Title : Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Environmental Report Card for Los Angeles County Water

Authors :  Federico, FeliciaYoungdahl, AnneSubramanian, SagarikaRauser, CasandraGold, Mark

Abstract : 

The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) Environmental Report Card (ERC) for Los Angeles County (L.A. County) is the only comprehensive environmental report card for a megacity in the world. This 2019 ERC on Water provides an in-depth look at the region's efforts in moving toward a more resilient local water supply, which requires maximizing high-quality local water supplies, improving water conveyance and treatment infrastructure, reducing water consumption, and implementing innovative technology and policy solutions. Twenty indicators were assessed across eight categories. Many of these indicators are new areas of assessment for the ERC and will provide a more comprehensive picture of current conditions compared to the 2015 ERC that last assessed L.A. County’s water. Grades were assigned in each category based on compliance with environmental laws or numeric standards where applicable, on our best professional judgment, and on historical improvements and context. This year’s grades range from D/ Incomplete to B+, and although there has been great progress in some areas, others still require significant improvement to raise the county’s C+ average.

Published by UCLA in October 2019

Source : UCLA - Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5zg1g4vd

Taxonomy

• Public Health
• Policy
• Research
• Water Supply
• Infrastructure
• Governance & Planning