MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KEEP LONG VALLEY GREEN RELEASES “WITHOUT WATER” FILM FOR PUBLIC VIEWING Award-Winning Documentary will be Available for Streaming on Group’s YouTube and Vimeo Channels Contact: Matt McClain, Keep Long Valley Green; Phone: (949) 228-1171; matt@friendsoftheinyo.org Mammoth Lakes, CA (November 14, 2022) – The Keep Long Valley Green Coalition announced today that it has released its documentary “Without Water” for public viewing today. The film will be available to stream on the group’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. Without Water explores the ongoing efforts by Eastern Sierra residents to prevent the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from…
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The latest issue of ‘Every Last Drop,’ the official newsletter of the Keep Long Valley Green Coalition, features information on LADWP’s mitigation failures, how to monitor when mitigation is done right (or not), and the success of our docufilm film ‘Without Water,’ which is earning awards in the short documentary film circuit in California and Nevada. Happy reading…and if you like what you read, happy sharing!
Learn about flood irrigation and why safeguarding this ancient method of supplying water to the landscape is important to Long Valley and Little Round Valley, find out about the success of our local water justice docufilm, “Without Water,” and more! Happy reading, and if you like what you read…happy sharing!
Friends of the Inyo’s Executive Director speaks truth to power – as in the L.A. Department of Water & Power – in 9/17 OpEd in ‘The Sheet’ “It is very frustrating to see LADWP make efforts to inform the people of Inyo and Mono Counties about its conservation successes, and microscopic baby steps toward developing truly local water. What we’d really like to see up here, what the health of our ecosystems and our economy need, is a schedule of water extraction reduction,” writes Wendy Schneider, Friends of the Inyo’s Executive Director, who is considered a local water protector by…
Carbon sequestration, nature’s own way of capturing carbon and storing it in the environment, is looked at closely in the latest issue of Every Last Drop. Wetlands and meadows, such as those found in Long Valley, are great for sequestering carbon in the soil and keeping it from being released to the atmosphere. However, wetlands and meadows can only do this efficiently when they are healthy. LADWP’s water extraction is compromising the health of wetlands and meadows in Southern Mono County. Read all about it in Every Last Drop’s new visually appealing format!
“We want a binding agreement from LADWP to continue historical irrigation pursuant to snowpack. Until we get that, we aren’t going anywhere.” Fighting words from Keep Long Valley Green Coalition Organizer Allison Weber. Read her impassioned advocacy piece in Every Last Drop, the coalition’s e-newsletter, analyzing the First District Court of Appeal for the State of California’s June decision to overturn a March 2021 ruling in favor of Mono County and the Sierra Club regarding LADWP irrigation on their ranch leases in Long Valley. The newsletter includes ideas on how to get involved in Eastern Sierra water protection. Happy reading….Happy…
On August 3rd, attend virtually the first ever Great Basin Water Justice Summit, which is bringing together diverse water protectors from Eastern California, Nevada, and Utah to discuss water justice issues. Then, later in the week, attend in person a movie screening of award-winning local short films on water justice. Two dates and locations to choose from: Cerro Coso Community College Bishop Campus Friday, Aug. 5th, and Mammoth Campus Saturday, Aug. 6th. These events are FREE and open to the public.
“The futures of tourism, wildlife and ranching in Mono County are now at the mercy of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power – according to environmental groups – now that a court has upheld the agency’s authority to cut irrigation water.” Click here to read the entire article, which has been distributed to numerous media outlets throughout the Western U.S., thanks to our partnership with Public News Service. We Need Your Support! If you would like to help Friends of the Inyo continue the good fight for water justice in the Eastern Sierra, please read our June…
Friends of the Inyo’s June 2022 Funding Appeal to our donors and supporters is all about water – each drop of it as precious as a diamond in these times of drought. Please read a heartfelt plea for support from Executive Director Wendy Schneider and follow the instructions to donate to help our water justice work so we can continue the fight to keep our water in the Eastern Sierra. Thank you!
The latest issue of Every Last Drop, the official E-newsletter of the Keep Long Valley Green Coalition, provides an excellent read on how the adequate provision of water to a landscape as engineered by nature itself, is a great way to lessen the possibilities of wildfires in the Eastern Sierra’s dry summer season. During the ongoing drought, we need Long Valley to remain watered – not parched by excessive extraction from the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. Happy reading….Happy sharing!