Turning Runoff Into Resource
How a River Sump Pump System Could End California’s Drought Woes
4 min readFeb 8, 2024
As a native of Long Beach, California, the dry riverbeds of the Los Angeles and Los Coyotes River basins were the playground of my younger days. As a kid riding their bike through the LA River, water conservation was never a constant presence, but I remember teachers highlighting the value of every drop…