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How Do Climate Change and Population Growth Affect Our Water Supply?

While San Diego has a variety of climates, it is overall fairly arid and cannot sustain a significant human population without importing massive quantities of water from other regions. With a population of just over 3 million, …

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Power cleaning with Power Scuba

On August 4, San Diego Coastkeeper and Power Scuba joined forces for an underwater and beach cleanup. We had walkers, kayakers, snorkelers and divers participate. The following account from diver Dan Prosperi and photos from …

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Student Attorneys: win, win, win, win

If you don’t know, Coastkeeper’s legal clinic is a win-win-win-win. The students get to learn. We get to stretch our programmatic resources. The legal profession gets trained attorneys at graduation. We grow the capacity of …

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We Want You: Help Us Start a Community Advisory Council

Do you or someone you know have concerns about clean water in your community? Make your voice heard and get the tools and support to make the changes you deserve. San Diego Coastkeeper is forming …

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San Diego 6 Invites Megan In Studio to Talk Clear Blue 2012

Today, our wonderful Megan Baehrens, Coastkeeper’s executive director, paid a visit to San Diego 6 morning show to talk about Clear Blue 2012. Besides the fun activities we have planned for the event, Megan also …

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Working Together to Tackle San Diego’s #1 Pollution Problem

Urban runoff is San Diego’s #1 pollution problem.  Because San Diego gets rain so infrequently, pollutants build up on the land over time.  When it rains, those pollutants are carried into our storm drains and …

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Go Jump Off A Boat: It’s Swimmable Day in San Diego

Snorkeling for lures. That’s how I describe my childhood. I grew up near the McKenzie River in Walterville, Ore. That’s just upstream from Eugene/Springfield area. Every summer my brother and I rode our bicycles to …

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One small step for City Council; one giant leap for San Diego’s water supply

We’re running out of water. San Diego imports more than 80% of our water supply, with approximately half our water coming from the Colorado River.  As Mike Lee’s recent article in the Union Tribune emphasized, …

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Rising CO2 Emissions: The Sea of Lemon Juice

Chances are that when you think of nature’s ability to absorb the nasty CO2 that we humans pump into the atmosphere, you think green. That is, trees and very likely the Amazon Rainforest. But what many of …

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A Sense of Place

Hurricane Creekkeeper About two months ago, I went to Portland for the annual Waterkeeper Alliance conference. This year, we joined the folks from River Network for one big happy 700-person celebration of all the things …

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How Do Climate Change and Population Growth Affect Our Water Supply?

While San Diego has a variety of climates, it is overall fairly arid and cannot sustain a significant human population without importing massive quantities of water from other regions. With a population of just over 3 million, …

Read More

Power cleaning with Power Scuba

On August 4, San Diego Coastkeeper and Power Scuba joined forces for an underwater and beach cleanup. We had walkers, kayakers, snorkelers and divers participate. The following account from diver Dan Prosperi and photos from …

Read More

Student Attorneys: win, win, win, win

If you don’t know, Coastkeeper’s legal clinic is a win-win-win-win. The students get to learn. We get to stretch our programmatic resources. The legal profession gets trained attorneys at graduation. We grow the capacity of …

Read More

We Want You: Help Us Start a Community Advisory Council

Do you or someone you know have concerns about clean water in your community? Make your voice heard and get the tools and support to make the changes you deserve. San Diego Coastkeeper is forming …

Read More

San Diego 6 Invites Megan In Studio to Talk Clear Blue 2012

Today, our wonderful Megan Baehrens, Coastkeeper’s executive director, paid a visit to San Diego 6 morning show to talk about Clear Blue 2012. Besides the fun activities we have planned for the event, Megan also …

Read More

Working Together to Tackle San Diego’s #1 Pollution Problem

Urban runoff is San Diego’s #1 pollution problem.  Because San Diego gets rain so infrequently, pollutants build up on the land over time.  When it rains, those pollutants are carried into our storm drains and …

Read More

Go Jump Off A Boat: It’s Swimmable Day in San Diego

Snorkeling for lures. That’s how I describe my childhood. I grew up near the McKenzie River in Walterville, Ore. That’s just upstream from Eugene/Springfield area. Every summer my brother and I rode our bicycles to …

Read More

One small step for City Council; one giant leap for San Diego’s water supply

We’re running out of water. San Diego imports more than 80% of our water supply, with approximately half our water coming from the Colorado River.  As Mike Lee’s recent article in the Union Tribune emphasized, …

Read More

Rising CO2 Emissions: The Sea of Lemon Juice

Chances are that when you think of nature’s ability to absorb the nasty CO2 that we humans pump into the atmosphere, you think green. That is, trees and very likely the Amazon Rainforest. But what many of …

Read More

A Sense of Place

Hurricane Creekkeeper About two months ago, I went to Portland for the annual Waterkeeper Alliance conference. This year, we joined the folks from River Network for one big happy 700-person celebration of all the things …

Read More