Which Way, L.A.?
Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
The LA Times reports that there won’t be poppies this year in the Antelope Valley. Some butterflies are staying dormant because there’s a lack of flowers in Southern California. Seasonal ponds are too dry for frogs or fairy shrimp. But deer, bobcats and rattlesnakes will be more evident this summer in residential neighborhoods.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readreports that there won’t be poppies this year in the Antelope Valley. Some butterflies are staying dormant because there’s a lack of flowers in Southern California. Seasonal ponds are too dry for frogs or fairy shrimp. But deer, bobcats and rattlesnakes will be more evident this summer in residential neighborhoods. It’s all about the shortage of water after a decade of drought-like conditions with the exception of the drenching winter of 2005. We begin with Debra Man, Chief Assistant General Manager and Operating Officer for the Metropolitan Water District, which serves almost 18 million people.
The full episode
1 of 1
The State of California: Dry as a Bone- 1:07Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to DrinkYou’re reading this
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Debra Man
Assistant General Manager and Chief Operating Officer for the Metropolitan Water District
Gerry Johns
Deputy Director for Water Resources Planning at the California Department of Water Resources
Rodney Fujita
Marine Ecologist at the Environmental Defense Fund and author of Heal the Oceans: Solutions for Saving Our Seas
The full episode
1 of 1The State of California: Dry as a Bone- 1:07Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to DrinkYou’re reading this