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San Diego’s Dwindling Conservation

Recent numbers on urban water use in our region have illuminated a less-than-stellar trend: Many of our area water suppliers are reporting negative conservation rates in December and January, meaning we’re using more water now …

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Watershed Spotlight: Meet the Sweetwater

Welcome to our first installment of Watershed Spotlight! Coming up, we’ll be highlighting some of our favorite San Diego County watersheds (hint: it’s all of them) in a new feature series on these amazing places …

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Intern Dispatches: Robyn Gillum and the art of science communication

Hi Friends, Here at San Diego Coastkeeper, we are lucky to have a team of passionate, highly-motivated interns who work with us behind the scenes to inject new ideas and fresh voices into our programs. …

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The Poetry of Water Monitors, Volume II

A couple years ago, our beloved (now former) lab manager, Travis Pritchard, decided he saw something special scrawled in “Notes, Observations, and Comments” section of the field data sheets of our volunteer water quality monitors. …

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A Return To Drought

With conditions across California suggesting an impending return to drought, San Diego is poised to take a meaningful leadership role in sustainable water management – should the city step up and take it.

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Using Conservation to Combat Pollution

As clean water people, we talk a lot about water quality here at Coastkeeper. Because we also care about where our water comes from and how much of it we are using, we also talk …

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New Year’s Resolutions for the Conscientious Homeowner

Water in San Diego County San Diego County imports over 80 percent of our drinking water from far-away sources such as the Colorado River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. We use about half of …

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Water conservation, one kid at a time

Off to a swell start Back in 2013, I landed myself a really swell job. At San Diego Coastkeeper, Project SWELL is the name of our K-6th environmental curriculum. SWELL stands for “Stewardship: Water Education …

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What are San Diego Businesses Doing to Conserve Water?

Still reeling after our most recent multi-year drought, many San Diegans have decided to carry their water-saving practices forward, for good. During the drought, what used to be a mundane, taken-for-granted resource was now frequently …

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What does a year of better water really mean? – San Diego Coastkeeper 2016 Water Quality Report

  For the first time since 2013, some of our watersheds scored “Good” on the Water Quality Index and many of our watershed scores improved significantly from scores over the last few years, but we …

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San Diego’s Dwindling Conservation

Recent numbers on urban water use in our region have illuminated a less-than-stellar trend: Many of our area water suppliers are reporting negative conservation rates in December and January, meaning we’re using more water now …

Read More
DSCF7093-2

Watershed Spotlight: Meet the Sweetwater

Welcome to our first installment of Watershed Spotlight! Coming up, we’ll be highlighting some of our favorite San Diego County watersheds (hint: it’s all of them) in a new feature series on these amazing places …

Read More

Intern Dispatches: Robyn Gillum and the art of science communication

Hi Friends, Here at San Diego Coastkeeper, we are lucky to have a team of passionate, highly-motivated interns who work with us behind the scenes to inject new ideas and fresh voices into our programs. …

Read More

The Poetry of Water Monitors, Volume II

A couple years ago, our beloved (now former) lab manager, Travis Pritchard, decided he saw something special scrawled in “Notes, Observations, and Comments” section of the field data sheets of our volunteer water quality monitors. …

Read More
dry colorado

A Return To Drought

With conditions across California suggesting an impending return to drought, San Diego is poised to take a meaningful leadership role in sustainable water management – should the city step up and take it.

Read More

Using Conservation to Combat Pollution

As clean water people, we talk a lot about water quality here at Coastkeeper. Because we also care about where our water comes from and how much of it we are using, we also talk …

Read More

New Year’s Resolutions for the Conscientious Homeowner

Water in San Diego County San Diego County imports over 80 percent of our drinking water from far-away sources such as the Colorado River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. We use about half of …

Read More

Water conservation, one kid at a time

Off to a swell start Back in 2013, I landed myself a really swell job. At San Diego Coastkeeper, Project SWELL is the name of our K-6th environmental curriculum. SWELL stands for “Stewardship: Water Education …

Read More

What are San Diego Businesses Doing to Conserve Water?

Still reeling after our most recent multi-year drought, many San Diegans have decided to carry their water-saving practices forward, for good. During the drought, what used to be a mundane, taken-for-granted resource was now frequently …

Read More

What does a year of better water really mean? – San Diego Coastkeeper 2016 Water Quality Report

  For the first time since 2013, some of our watersheds scored “Good” on the Water Quality Index and many of our watershed scores improved significantly from scores over the last few years, but we …

Read More