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Friday 11/15: Santa Cruz Bread & Roses Fall Fundraiser
London Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz
O'Neill Sea Odyssey
Listed under: Education Environment Water
Since the Gold Rush era, land reclamation projects have helped to build California, but they are also damaging the state’s environment for people, plants and animals by eliminating essential wetlands.
California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.
Almost one million California residents are forced to drink from contaminated water supplies, or pay for bottled water. Economic inequality makes the crisis worse. What is the state doing to fix it?
2023’s torrential rainstorms have eased California's drought conditions. But there’s a lot more to drought than the amount of rain, and this drought isn't over yet.
Community service districts can do most anything a city government can do. Here’s how they work and how to start one.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.
Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.
Santa Cruz County's water system is run by a decentralized collection of entities.
Santa Cruz is one of the few California communities that receive 100 percent of its water from local rainfall.
From The Pajaronian...
Work is moving forward on a project to restore native habitat and implement a series of water quality treatment projects to redesign the path of stormwater to Middle Struve Slough.
From San Lorenzo Valley Post...
Running a water district is a lot like managing a household—they both need a funding source like a job or a fee structure; they both have bills to pay like maintenance, PG&E, and transportation; and both have to balance income with expenses. If the paycheck fails to keep up with raising costs, something has to change.
From Santa Cruz Sentinel...
From Lookout Local...
From Hilltromper Santa Cruz...
The Pleasure Point Night Fighters sparked the global beach-cleanup movement in the 1960s with a campaign launched around a slogan and the iconic “Pack Your Trash” logo. Also in Santa Cruz, Save Our Shores mentors students on ocean conservancy.
From Los Angeles Times...
From Santa Cruz Local...
Voters in San Lorenzo Valley Water District in November will decide whether to reverse a recent water bill hike and cap some future charges.
From KSQD...
John Hunt is a collaborator at the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation and a research toxicologist at the University of California, Davis.
In a statement released Wednesday, August 28, 2024 the San Lorenzo Valley Water District announced that the SLVWD Board has accepted the resignation of Interim District General Manager, Brian Frus.
Later this year, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency will start construction of its $600 million Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project, a long overdue effort to improve levees along the Pajaro River and Corralitos and Salsipuedes creeks.
Elkhorn Slough, the vast natural area south of Watsonville that serves as a transition zone between land and sea and is home to myriad species of birds—as well as water and land animals—got a boost last week with a $6 million award.
In the wake of the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s recent historic $71 billion award, a look back at the first National Oceans Conference.
From the bluffs above the waves in San Mateo County, you can watch humpbacks breach—and feel the power of nature.
From Press Banner...
San Lorenzo Valley Water District is moving forward to replace 12 water tanks to improve reliability, capacity and drought resiliency.
Swimming holes and beach-swims near Santa Cruz that let you work in some exercise.
From CalMatters...
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District (SLVWD) announced on June 2, 2024 that it will be replacing 12 water storage tanks in several locations in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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