Yesterday when I pointed out that delivering water is BIG BUSINESS , I should have been more clear that the old boys club at Metropolitan Wa...

Image provided courtesy of CBS News, Los Angeles. Delivering water is BIG BUSINESS, folks. One would think that a community’s precious w...

What is the IPR?   Indirect Potable Reuse is wastewater treated to a level so pure, we can drink it.   The process mimics what happens ...

Let's learn from Sydney's mistake, and not build a desal plant that is just too expensive!

  Join us this Sunday the 22nd at 10am at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas for our next Lawn Patrol!! We will visit our 3rd Street GAP installat...

The Surfrider Foundation has consolidated all of our issue-based blogs into one Coastal Blog. Come check it out at www.surfrider.org/coastal...

Barry Nelson of NRDC just wrote a great article highlighting efforts by Santa Monica, Long Beach, San Diego and a couple of water districts...

Yesterday USA Today carried a fairly lengthy article discussing the world-wide pressures on fresh water supplies and the response in several...

In San Diego, we have major water issues.  After all, we live in a desert, and water resources are precious.  Yesterday NPR reported on loc...

Putting Green to Work Green Infrastructure On The Rise ...

Alliance Webcast: NYC & LA on Green Infrastructure Clean Water America Alliance President Ben Grumbles will host a free webcast f...

What a great day for Santa Cruz, and the great state of California!  Finally, a community that understands urban planning must include con...

This article in Scientific American points out the considerable energy potential in the "biosolids" content of wastewater. Methan...

About 50% of the water used inside U.S. homes can be reused to irrigate landscapes and flush toilets, according to a greywater report releas...

This editorial is good - it advocates for water to be re-used over and over again, which is key.  However, at Surfrider, while we think it...

As you know, the Earth is a watery place. But just how much water exists on, in, and above our planet? The picture above shows the size of a...

After experimenting with solar panels, gray-water systems and chickens for two years, a budget-minded consumer takes stock of what worked ...

According to current research , return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across...

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words and the photo from a recent New York Times blog article says everything about our water crisis...

For a year, San Diego city officials collected storm water in 24 rain barrels in eight sites across the city to analyze their effectiveness ...

Yesterday the San Diego Union Tribune ran a feature Future wellspring? - New source of drinking water hinges on pilot project and City Counc...

NYC's New Green Infrastructure Plan Submitted by Richard Jarman on Thu, 2010-09-30 10:3 4. In a boost to the City's harbor water qua...

A study in Nature reports that nearly 80 percent of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply isn’t secure. And...

First KUSI's John Coleman calls global warming 'a scam' , now KUSI's Bob Kittle claims "That water (from purified sewag...

A new analysis from the Pacific Institute recommends specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water quickly and at ...

Today, San Francisco's water utility will unveil a proposal for the city's first large-scale water recycling project, an arc-shape...

Southern California Public Radio has continued its series of reports regarding the use of green infrastructure to address the problem of sto...

State regulators are putting in place new rules to capture much of stormwater and dry season urban runoff before it pollutes coastal waters....

Finally rainwater catchment is catching on in San Diego! San Diego County is offering HALF-PRICE RAIN BARRELS for County Unincorporated Resi...

Venturans face higher water fees despite best conservation efforts "Despite laudable water conservation efforts, Ventura residents and ...

D id you know that...? ...a 1,000 square foot lawn in San Diego (that's about a 50'x20' area) uses about 25,ooo gallons of wat...

The IPR demo project is underway; which is a huge step in the right direction for San Diego's future water supply. Please check out this...

There's an old joke that goes, " You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer." The joke is funny to anyon...

We wrote an Op Ed piece calling for water management reform down here in San Diego today .  Our local paper, the Union-Tribune ran it this ...

The Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act ( S. 3561 ) was just introduced into the Senate by Tom Udall (N.M.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I...