Tag: water

A picture of a lush green lawn and a flower garden divided by a brick walkway, to illustrate a blog post about the importance of sprucing up your sprinkler system. Sprinklers waste thousands of gallons of water a year and lead to higher water bills when they are not properly adjusted.

It’s Time for a Spring Sprinkler Spruce Up!

It’s greening up and growing warmer out there, which means it’s time to start thinking about your lawn and garden(s). Many folks rely on automatic irrigation systems to keep their gardens growing and their lawns green. That can be a smart choice to water more efficiently. But most sprinkler systems are not properly adjusted and…

A shovel leans on a wheelbarrow full of mulch near a flower bed. This illustrates a blog post about preparing your gardens in spring.

7 Tips to Get Your Garden Growing This Spring

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been impatiently waiting to get out in the garden and start the growing season — especially since winter seems to have been stubborn about relinquishing its hold this year. But even though the weather is warming, don’t rush off to the garden center and buy every plant you see. Those…

An image of a trophy cup against a black background as gold confetti falls, to symbolize LCA winning AWOP and accounting awards again in 2025.

LCA Recognized for Financial Reporting, Water Treatment Optimization

LCA employees’ hard work is paying off! Two awards have been presented to LCA for excellence in water treatment and financial management  — the Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award and the Excellence in Financial Reporting Award. “Congratulations to our employees on these prestigious awards,” said CEO Liesel Gross. “Your dedication and service is so important…

Six Ways to Show Water Some Love

This Valentine’s Day, show some love to one of the most important things in your life: water! Water is crucial to your everyday existence. It makes up between 55 percent and 78 percent of your body weight, and you literally cannot survive much more than three days without it. In fact, the Mayo Clinic states…

A graphic the celebrates 50 years of the Safe Drinking Water Act. It features a round logo with the words, AWWA Celebrating 50th Anniversary, Safe Drinking Water Act, 1974-2024.

Today We Celebrate 50 Years of Safe Drinking Water!

The Safe Drinking Water Act was signed into law in 1974 to authorize enforceable standards for drinking water quality.   Today marks an important anniversary for the water coming out of your tap: Fifty years of the Safe Drinking Water Act! Administered through science-based EPA regulations, SDWA sets stringent and clear standards that all water utilities and…

A picture of LCA employees Dan Stevens, asset management technology manager, and James Luma, GIS specialist, as they look at a computerized map of LCA assets, to illustrate a story on how LCA uses GIS to track assets.

LCA’s GIS Team Creates Digital Maps to Track Water Infrastructure

With more than 1,065 miles of water and sewer lines to manage, it’s a good thing LCA can rely on technology like our geographic information system (GIS) to help us map and track our infrastructure.  It’s also a good thing we have awesome professionals like Dan Stevens (seated in photo), our asset management technology manager, and James Luma,…

A picture of a young woman with dark hair drinking water after exercising, to illustrate an LCA blog post on Drinking Water Week 2023.

Drinking Water Week is Here!

It’s Drinking Water Week — the American Water Works Association’s annual celebration of the vital and often under-appreciated role that drinking water plays in our daily lives! Clean, safe water is essential to protecting public health and our environment. We literally need clean water to survive—so much so that the Mayo Clinic says the age-old…

A picture of a woman examining her sink for leaks to illustrate an LCA post on Fix a Leak Week 2023.

Find Those Leaks — and Fix Them!

It’s the EPA’s 15th annual Fix A Leak Week. Did you know that household leaks can waste nearly 1 trillion gallons of water nationwide every year? That’s why we set aside one week every March for the EPA’s annual Fix a Leak Week. This year we’re hunting down leaks from March 20-26, but remember: You can…

A picture of a raised bed vegetable garden in a patch of lawn, to illustrate an LCA post on converting your lawn.

Tired of Mowing? Sick of Watering? Convert Your Lawn!

Spring is just around the corner. Are you dreaming about mowing the lawn every week yet? No? Then maybe it’s time to convert your lawn into something more beneficial (and less time-consuming) instead. If you love your sod, we get it. The American Dream has long been characterized by a house with a white picket…

A picture of a Eurasion Coot sitting on a nest that includes plastic trash such as straws, for an LCA post on Skip the Straw Day.

Skip the Straw — Today, and Every Day

Can you guess the item that routinely makes the “Top Ten” most-collected items list during the Ocean Conservancy’s yearly International Coastal Cleanup? If you had breakfast, lunch or dinner at a restaurant today, you probably saw or used one: the plastic straw/stirrer. And over the last 35 years, costal cleanup volunteers have collected nearly 14…

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