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What we’re reading: Changing our ways when it comes to water

By Craig Nakano
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power went before the City Council earlier this week to talk about more conservation measures. As Emily Green reports on her Chance of Rain blog, some officials seem to have given up on the hope that Southern Californians not only can learn to use less water, but also can make fundamental lifestyle changes for the greater environmental good. To which Green responds:

Only behavior modification will reduce the load of pesticides and fertilizers that sink into the ground or are washed into our storm drains every day by lawn sprinklers. Without behavior modification, we are doing little to change a garden culture that is steadily poisoning our aquifers and killing our bays.

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Check out the blog for her take on the meeting, and look for the next installment of her drought-tolerant gardening column here next week.

-- Craig Nakano

Photo: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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Craig Nakano

Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.

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