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Population: 126,003

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The Metropolitan Water District provides water to city residents and businesses. In 2009, it will begin providing California-friendly landscaping training for residents free of charge.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California also offers classes online, and includes training in native plant species, watering and fertilizing, and basic landscape design.

The City of Fullerton does not have a curbside recycling program, but rather recycles materials through a system known as "murfing." Trash and recyclables are all sent to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF—pronounced "murf") where they are separated and sent respectively to be recycled and to the landfill. Fullerton maintains that this is a way to ensure that no recyclable materials get thrown in the trash; by this method it diverts 60 percent of its waste from the landfill.

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The Promise of Permeable Paving

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Porous Paving

The EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System site provides information about applicability, siting and design criteria.

Georgia's Department of Community Affairs has a page on best practices for porous paving.
Portland, Oregon's Bureau of Environmental Service pervious paving projects page.
City of Chicago's permeable paving site with many local examples.
San Francisco Parks Trust permeable landscape page.

Environmental Health Perspectives provides a good overview in "Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impermeable Surfaces."

NRDC's report Stormwater Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution considers a variety of responses implemented across the country.

Water Conservation

US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation: with a mission to "manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public" the bureau provides information about water levels in reservoirs throughout the West, updates on dams, powerplants and related projects and a library of water reclamation materials.

Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART program: Information on WaterSMART grants for water and energy conservation projects, basin studies with integrated management plans and water supply reviews and details on the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in the Southwest.

In Hot Water: Water Management Strategies to Weather the Effects of Global Warming (NRDC report)

Water Efficiency Saves Energy (NRDC report)

Las Vegas Water District conservation pages

Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNVA) conservation and rebates

SNVA landscaping information

NYC's Residential Recycling Program

Live in NYC and wonder what you can recycle and how? This guide will help.

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Switchboard: Green City Rankings: California Cleans Up!

Before the Well Runs Dry

Minute, Morning, Month: Apply these water-saving measures in your yard or garden.

Minute, Morning, Month: Save water and reduce runoff. Install permeable pavement.