Category: People Stories
It doesn’t require a hero to do something heroic! There is great merit even in small acts of water-mindfulness — because of the acts themselves and because of the kind of people it makes us. —H2O IQ editor
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FEATURE: Women in water science make a splash
Dale Hoffman-Floerke receiving new award from Karla Nemeth, two women leaders from DWR. Photo: Florence Low, DWR In a time when both science and women’s rights are being actively challenged, the Sierra Nevada Phillips award shines a light on accomplished women in water resource sciences. Launched with a ceremony last March—Women’s History Month—the new award,…
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Sizing-Up Progress on Nature-Based Infrastructure
Photo: May 2024 – State of the Estuary conference awards ceremony for outstanding projects. It wasn’t the appearance of a flashy, high-ranking California official at the podium, or the review of 35 years of efforts to protect the Bay’s watershed at the beginning of the May 2024 State of the Estuary conference that made me…
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Delta College’s Aqua Ducks are big winners at H2O Hackathon
A San Joaquin Delta College student squad called the Aqua Ducks emerged top prize winner May 4 at the end of a 10-hour coding and presentation competition focusing on state water issues. The seventh annual H2O Hackathon drew more than 200 high school and college students and their coaches to the San Joaquin County Office…
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Meet the Las Vegas teens facing Western drought head on
(LtoR) Katie Kim, Fisher Parry and Kira Anderson with the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Youth Conservation Council are on hand to volunteer their time at an Earth Day event at Springs Preserve on Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) The West has experienced what’s been called “mega-drought” for longer than they’ve been…
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No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silent
Bernie Krause ‘out there and listening to the soundscapes’ in Sugarloaf Ridge state park. Photograph: Cayce Clifford/The Guardian As the soundscape of the natural world began to disappear over 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all The tale starts 30 years ago, when Bernie Krause made his first audio clip in Sugarloaf Ridge…
