TreePeopleGina Palino is TreePeople’s Technical Associate and comes from the water resource engineering field. Gina’s passion is bringing eco-system based water management infrastructure to the urban environment. When she isn’t researching urban water resiliency strategies she enjoys gardening, yoga and cooking meals with local produce from the farmers market.
Los Angeles is a very unique place with complex challenges when it comes to both water and climate. Moving toward a more climate-resilient LA is a complicated task with a multitude of paths towards a solution. Looking further into how water is used, either through landscape transformations or how water use will affect local temperatures…
Here in LA, we expect to see clean drinking water flowing anytime we turn on a faucet. But have you ever wondered where that water comes from? Tap water in the City of LA comes from several sources — and about 90% of it is imported. The sources we rely on primarily include: The…