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Water Group Event Report: “Pumped Dry” – Film Screening
Nearly 50 Morongo Basin residents turned out at Furstworld on June 8 to see the new documentary film ‘Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater’. The Transition Joshua Tree Water Group hosted the free presentation by Desert…
Water Group Report: Cadiz Water Project
Hydrogeologist Tom Henderson illustrates how the Cadiz basin is recharged.
Thirteen TJT Water Group members recently made two trips to Cadiz to investigate the controversial Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project.…
Black Rock Lecture Series
The Black Rock Lecture Series will be expanded this season to feature a panel based symposium on relevant topics affecting Joshua Tree National Park and Gateway Communities. Academic and policy experts will analyze and assess seven core…
Water group report: Community disaster preparedness day
By Patricia Mencarelli
Set:
CERT Event at Walmart
Date: Saturday Oct 11,2014
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
With the goal of exposure, public outreach about Transition Joshua Tree, and issues concerning emergency water use and water…
About the Aquifers
On Friday, April 18, 2014, the Water Team joined over one hundred community members at the Aquifers 101 Seminar by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Members learned that our communities’ aquifers are in overdraft. Yucca Valley…
Observations at a Prize-Winning Home
Last May, Bernard Leibov won the Water Group’s raffle prize: a free site assessment and recommendations for water-saving techniques.
Bernard promptly implemented those recommendations, and nine months later, he could not be happier.…