Everyone’s favorite zombie water project is baaaack… but there’s a move afoot to lay it to rest for good with a new state law, AB 1000.

The Cadiz water project would pump 50,000 annual acre-feet of water from an ancient aquifer beneath Mojave Trails National Monument and sell it to Southern California suburbs. The Sierra Club has been fighting this plan since the 1990s when Cadiz Inc. introduced the idea of pumping water out of the desert and selling it to local water agencies.

The creation of America’s national marine sanctuary program in 1975 was the highlight of a decades-long effort to gain protections for unique ocean and Great Lakes ecosystems in federal waters surrounding the U.S.

The Angeles Chapter Conservation Committee invites you to the First Fall Open House on Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come learn about what environmental issues we are working on, participate in our discussion about clean air, sustainable communities and protection of our coast and open spaces. We would be delighted to hear about the environmental issues occurring in your community.