Madres del Este de Los Angeles Mothers of East LA-Santa Isabel Working for peace, health, and the environment.įoLAR's mission is to protect and restore the natural and historic heritage of the Los Angeles River and its riparian habitat.

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles Tri-County Watchdogs is an unincorporated non-profit organization dealing with community and environmental issues of the mountain communities (Gorman, Neenach, Lebec, Frazier Park, Lake of the Woods, Pinion Pines, Cuddy Valley, Pine Mountain Club).Įnvironmental Education, Leadership Development, and Advocacy

We enable community members to take control of their water resources by participating in water policy, planning and decisions. We provide legal and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color fighting environmental hazards.Įnvironmental Justice Coalition for Water The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment is a national environmental justice legal organization with offices in San Francisco and Delano, California. The Grayson Neighborhood Council works on environmental justice struggles in the westside Stanislaus communities of Grayson, Westley and Vernalis.Ĭalifornians for Pesticide reform is a coalition of over 170 public interest groups dedicated to protecting human health and the environment from the dangers of pesticide use.Ĭenter on Race, Poverty, and the Environment Tri-Valley CAREs is the Livermore-based watchdog group for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Working for environmental justice across the Western United States, and a collaborator on Invisible-5 Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice Visit these sites to find out more about organizations mentioned in Invisible-5: Learn more about toxic hazards and risks where you live. Invisible-5 is a self-guided audio tour along California's I-5 corridorĮnvironmental Justice means that all people, regardless of race or income, have the right to a clean and healthy environment and safe quality of life where we live, work, play and learn. I wanted this to be a monument to me.'ĬD1 Bayview Hunters Point-SF to Kettleman City ĬD2 Alpaugh to Boyle Heights-East LA ĬD1 Boyle Heights-East LA to Alpaugh ĬD2 Kettleman City to Bayview Hunters Point - SF ĭownload either SOUTHBOUND or NORTHBOUND to get all the audio files.Īnd all stop information from the website to accompany the audio on your drive. In a 1979 interview with the University of California's Oral History Program Brown commented, 'I was absolutely determined I was going to pass this California Water Project. Construction began in 1961 and though still incomplete, the total cost for the project has grown over $4.3 billion for twenty-five dams and reservoirs, eighteen pumping plants, 683 miles of aqueducts, and eight hydro-electric power plants. Pitched during Brown's tenure as governor, the SWP was initially sold to the public in 1960 for an estimated total cost of $1.75 billion in state bonds-a misleading and low-balled figure. The aqueduct and associated channels supply water for about one million acres of farmland. Brown California Aqueduct is the state's largest and longest water transport system, stretching 444 miles from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in the north to Lake Perris in Southern California. Ninety percent of this amount goes to agricultural uses and about half of this amount is historically provided to farmers for free.Ĭonsidered its crown jewel, the SWP's Edmund G. The CVP on the other hand provides one-fifth of the state's domestic and irrigation water, approximately seven million acre-feet annually. Twenty-nine water contractors including urban and agricultural water agencies, buy water from the SWP totaling over four million acre-feet a year with seventy percent going to urban users and thirty percent to agricultural users. Both convey water from the northern part of the state to the southern end with many disbursements in between. John Gibler, writer, Edmund 'Pat' Brown, Former California GovernorĬalifornia's two monumental water projects, the State Water Project (SWP) and the federally funded Central Valley Project (CVP) are the largest of their kind in the world. Water quality, water subsidies, inequity in infrastructure development and common-pool resource access or the Dos Amigos Pumping Station Vista Point SB CUE When you see the Dos Amigos Pumping Station to the east of I-5

California aqueduct map