SWIP Tour

In this walk through of the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP), Sunny Wang (City of Santa Monica, Water Resources Division) will lead a walk through of the facility with Debra Scacco, artist in residence at City Yards. Through 2025, Scacco is working with the Water and Resource Recovery and Recycling divisions at City Yards to examine natural resource and waste pathways through the city and beyond, and illuminate the lives of the essential workers who keep Santa Monica functioning. Presented by the Water Resources Division in collaboration with Santa Monica Cultural Affairs.

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Sunny Wang oversees operations for the Water Resources Division of the City of Santa Monica. This includes groundwater production, treatment, and distribution of high-quality drinking water for the City as well as wastewater collection services. Additionally, Wang directs water resources policies and is leading the City’s goal of achieving water self-sufficiency as adopted by the City Council. The City’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP), the first underground water treatment facility in the country, is one of only four international projects nominated for a Global Water Award, a recognition of excellence across the entire international water industry.

Debra Scacco’s 25+ year research-based artistic practice examines cartography as an exercise of power. Her work lives at the intersection of ecology, history and policy; in the uncomfortable space where everything is connected. Scacco is the first civic-appointed artist-in-residence for the City of Santa Monica, in the Water Division and Resource Recovery & Recycling (RRR) Division (2023-25). She is the recipient of a 2023-24 City of Los Angeles Master Artist Fellowship (C.O.L.A.), and is co-director of Getty PST Art project Brackish Water Los Angeles at CSUDH. Her public works have been seen in the Western Mojave Desert, LAX Airport and at Ellis Island. Her work features in collections including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, MOAH and CAA.