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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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Your Peek Into The Mind of Susan Cobb, Volunteer Water Quality Monitor

Susan Cobb, one of San Diego Coastkeeper’s most dedicated Water Quality Monitors, spends her weekends collecting water samples from across San Diego for scientific analysis. Passionate volunteers like Susan are the reason we can catch sewage …

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Polluted Runoff: The Stories You Need To Know

Polluted runoff is the single biggest threat to water quality in San Diego. What is polluted runoff? Pollutants like oil, grease, pesticides and litter build up on our streets and sidewalks each day. When it rains, and …

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Meditations in Blue

San Diego Coastkeeper member, Water Quality Monitor, and beach cleanup host extraordinaire Amanda Sousa is a water lover in the truest sense. When she sailed from Ensenada to Oahu, Amanda experienced just how wondrously huge …

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An El Cajon Business’s Journey from Polluter To Environmental Leader

The United States and California have some of the best water quality regulations in the world. The problem is, they are seldom enforced. That’s where we come in. San Diego Coastkeeper’s identifies illegal polluters like …

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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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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

Your Peek Into The Mind of Susan Cobb, Volunteer Water Quality Monitor

Susan Cobb, one of San Diego Coastkeeper’s most dedicated Water Quality Monitors, spends her weekends collecting water samples from across San Diego for scientific analysis. Passionate volunteers like Susan are the reason we can catch sewage …

Read More

Polluted Runoff: The Stories You Need To Know

Polluted runoff is the single biggest threat to water quality in San Diego. What is polluted runoff? Pollutants like oil, grease, pesticides and litter build up on our streets and sidewalks each day. When it rains, and …

Read More

Meditations in Blue

San Diego Coastkeeper member, Water Quality Monitor, and beach cleanup host extraordinaire Amanda Sousa is a water lover in the truest sense. When she sailed from Ensenada to Oahu, Amanda experienced just how wondrously huge …

Read More

An El Cajon Business’s Journey from Polluter To Environmental Leader

The United States and California have some of the best water quality regulations in the world. The problem is, they are seldom enforced. That’s where we come in. San Diego Coastkeeper’s identifies illegal polluters like …

Read More

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