Aug. 1—Marc Bedner shakes his head in disbelief while standing by his two rain-catching cisterns placed at an outside corner of his home in Eldorado. He glances at the brown tanks, both connected to a ...

The painted pavement indicates the underground cistern at the Pico Library in Santa Monica. Photo: Avishay Artsy With periods of extreme drought expected to increase in the Southland, as well as an El ...

When a fire engulfed a house in the Black Forest neighborhood of Wissler's Ranch in 2017, the development's three 10,000-gallon water cisterns built in the 1990s were tested and failed in a real-world ...