Vasquez-Rodriguez contributes to Southern California water atlas revealing fragmented governance

Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez was a contributing expert on the 2025 Southern California Community Water Systems Atlas, identifying a “complex network of 663 drinking water systems across six counties… Together these utilities serve 40 percent of California’s population.” The report and companion mapping tool “shed light on disparities in water quality, affordability, govenrnanve and climate resilience.”   The report identifies how “fragmentation complicates oversight, resulting in uneven capacity and disparities in service. It also makes it harder to fix water quality violations,” according to the UCLA Luskin Center for Information.  

Itzel will be speaking on an online panel about the results of the atlas on October 7th: How Does Your Drinking Water System Compare? A Webinar and Demo on UCLA’s New Water Atlas.  Register and learn more about that event here. 

Explore the report and mapping tool here.