UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation will conduct a statewide water needs analysis of the systems that provide drinking water to Californians. The analysis, which is funded by a $3 million contract with the California State Water Resources Board, will help ensure access to clean and affordable drinking water across the state of California.
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UCLA researchers have developed a new technique for creating membrane filters. This has important uses for deriving drinkable water from seawater, treating wastewater and conducting kidney dialysis.
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The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) with support from the Pritzker Foundation and the UCLA School of Law hosted its fifth research symposium on May 23, 2019, spotlighting research, management, and technology aimed at making the Los Angeles region more water resilient, and improving water quality for human health and well-being.
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Daniel Swain, a climate scientist within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, was interviewed on KCRW about Southern California’s unusual May rainfall.
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Daniel Swain, climate scientist within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about Southern California’s Prado Dam, which was recently upgraded to the “high urgency” risk category by the U.S. Army Corps. Federal engineers are concerned that a significant flooding event could compromise the dam’s spillways, threatening Orange County communities.
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