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UCLA faculty voice: El Nino isn’t a drought buster – it’s a missed opportunity

A Los Angeles waterway.
When Los Angeles waterways like the Ballona Creek surge on rainy days, most of that water is lost to runoff rather than retained for usage by our water systems. Photo by Owen and Aki/Flickr.


Mark Gold, Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, foreshadows tens of billions of gallons of lost water runoff resulting from Los Angeles’ lack of appropriate infrastructure to capture and store rainfall.

 

Read more at UCLA Newsroom