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Do beach cleanups do more than just clean beaches?

Meet Monica, our beach cleanup intern-extraordinaire. She signed up with San Diego Coastkeeper to keep our waters swimmable, but discovered a new passion for volunteering itself. Surfers dart past you towards the waves in a youthful jog as you assemble Coastkeeper’s signature blue easy-up gazebo, which in fact isn’t so easy after all. A kind stranger always offers a helping hand and you always accept.

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Does Industry and Government Pollute Our Waters? Not If Coastkeeper Can Help It.

Did you know that clean water is protected by law? A Clean Water Law is Born Prior to 1972, people across America could pollute waters freely — and without much consequence. It wasn’t until the …

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Why We Spend Our Saturdays Collecting Water Samples

We have laws in place to limit industrial pollution and ensure that our water can support all of its uses, from swimming and fishing to hosting endangered wildlife. But without enforcement, these regulations cannot keep …

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Environmental Donor Spotlight: Why We Support San Diego’s Clean Water

Eleanor Musick, a past San Diego Coastkeeper board member, and Abe Ordover are some of our favorite San Diego Coastkeeper donors. We sat with them to talk about why they love fishable, swimmable, drinkable water …

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Will the Trump Administration Destroy San Diego’s Water? We Won’t Let Him.

Who is being put in charge of our nation’s environment? President Elect Trump has appointed Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier with a history of suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to head the EPA. …

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From Matt’s Desk: An Intro to Industrial Stormwater Enforcement

Often, businesses are willing to upgrade their facilities and their practices to the legal standards necessary to keep our waters fishable and swimmable.

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Here’s Your December Drought Update

The numbers are in. California is conserving less water than it needs to. San Diego is doing even worse. California conserved less water this year than last year. In October 2015, California conserved 22.5 percent …

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Top Five Things We’ve Learned from Water Quality Monitoring

We may not think about it every day, but we all live in a watershed. A watershed is the area of land that catches all the rain and snow, which collects into a marsh, stream, …

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Be Like Jo Ann And Ted: Create an Oasis and Save Water at the Same Time

Guest Author is Brook Sarson, H2OME True Water Conservation requires an integrated approach and taking the initiative to be part of the solution. Jo Ann and Ted, in Talmadge, were reluctant to get rid of their front …

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Who Do You Want Planning Your Coastline?

A new plan is in the works that will decide the future of San Diego’s coastline. Recently, the State Lands Commission and the Port of San Diego decided to pursue a marine spatial planning pilot …

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Do beach cleanups do more than just clean beaches?

Meet Monica, our beach cleanup intern-extraordinaire. She signed up with San Diego Coastkeeper to keep our waters swimmable, but discovered a new passion for volunteering itself. Surfers dart past you towards the waves in a youthful jog as you assemble Coastkeeper’s signature blue easy-up gazebo, which in fact isn’t so easy after all. A kind stranger always offers a helping hand and you always accept.

Read More

Does Industry and Government Pollute Our Waters? Not If Coastkeeper Can Help It.

Did you know that clean water is protected by law? A Clean Water Law is Born Prior to 1972, people across America could pollute waters freely — and without much consequence. It wasn’t until the …

Read More

Why We Spend Our Saturdays Collecting Water Samples

We have laws in place to limit industrial pollution and ensure that our water can support all of its uses, from swimming and fishing to hosting endangered wildlife. But without enforcement, these regulations cannot keep …

Read More

Environmental Donor Spotlight: Why We Support San Diego’s Clean Water

Eleanor Musick, a past San Diego Coastkeeper board member, and Abe Ordover are some of our favorite San Diego Coastkeeper donors. We sat with them to talk about why they love fishable, swimmable, drinkable water …

Read More

Will the Trump Administration Destroy San Diego’s Water? We Won’t Let Him.

Who is being put in charge of our nation’s environment? President Elect Trump has appointed Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier with a history of suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to head the EPA. …

Read More

From Matt’s Desk: An Intro to Industrial Stormwater Enforcement

Often, businesses are willing to upgrade their facilities and their practices to the legal standards necessary to keep our waters fishable and swimmable.

Read More

Here’s Your December Drought Update

The numbers are in. California is conserving less water than it needs to. San Diego is doing even worse. California conserved less water this year than last year. In October 2015, California conserved 22.5 percent …

Read More

Top Five Things We’ve Learned from Water Quality Monitoring

We may not think about it every day, but we all live in a watershed. A watershed is the area of land that catches all the rain and snow, which collects into a marsh, stream, …

Read More

Be Like Jo Ann And Ted: Create an Oasis and Save Water at the Same Time

Guest Author is Brook Sarson, H2OME True Water Conservation requires an integrated approach and taking the initiative to be part of the solution. Jo Ann and Ted, in Talmadge, were reluctant to get rid of their front …

Read More

Who Do You Want Planning Your Coastline?

A new plan is in the works that will decide the future of San Diego’s coastline. Recently, the State Lands Commission and the Port of San Diego decided to pursue a marine spatial planning pilot …

Read More