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Registration Now Open for Northern California Tour:
October 16-18
Registration is now open for
our popular Northern California
Tour October 16-18, and seats always fill
quickly! This 3-day, 2-night excursion across the
Sacramento Valley travels north from Sacramento to Oroville,
Redding and Shasta Lake.
With temperatures spiking across
California this week, now is a great time to reserve your
spot on our Headwaters Tour July
24-25 when we’ll explore the role of the Sierra
Nevada snowpack in the state’s water supply and how heatwaves can
accelerate snowmelt.
As we head into summer, don’t miss your chance to explore the
statewide impact of forest health on water resources in July and
be sure to mark your calendars for our popular fall programming!
Northern
California Tour, October 16-18: Explore the
Sacramento River and its tributaries through a scenic landscape
while learning about the issues associated with a key source
for the state’s water supply. Registration opens June
12!
Water Summit, October 30: Attend the Water
Education Foundation’s premier annual event hosted in
Sacramento with leading policymakers and experts addressing
critical water issues in California and across the West. More
details coming soon!
Mark Arax, an award-winning
journalist and author of books chronicling agriculture and water
issues in California’s Central Valley, will provide the keynote
talk at an international groundwater conference next month.
Groundwater basins in California
and across the world are the source for much of the water that
grows our food. But many challenges come with groundwater:
Keeping use sustainable, nitrate contamination and impacts
from climate change.
The world’s top scientists, policymakers and experts will be
addressing these topics June 18-20 in San
Francisco at the
3ʳᵈ International Groundwater Conference Linking Science &
Policy, along with the latest advancements on
groundwater demand management, conjuctive use, managed aquifer
recharge, groundwater governance and emerging artificial
intelligence resources related to groundwater and agriculture.
We are midway through Big Day of Giving, a 24-hour regional
fundraising event that benefits our tours, workshops and
publications that educate about floods, drought, groundwater,
climate change and more!
You have until midnight to
make a donation that will help keep the Water
Education Foundation as a go-to resource for in-depth, impartial
information about water in California and the West.
If you have had the amazing opportunity to attend one of our
water tours, enjoyed reading our
Western Water articles, or have
purchased any of our beautiful water maps or
Layperson’s Guides, you can show your
appreciation by helping us reach our $15,000
goal!
Donate here on our campaign
page. We have $7,931 to
go!
Big
Day of Giving is nearly over but you still have
until midnight to support the Water Education Foundation’s tours,
workshops, publications and other programs with a donation to help us reach our
$15,000 fundraising goal - we are only
$6,405 away!
At the Foundation, we believe that education is as precious
as water. Your donations help us every day to teach K-12
educators how to bring water science into the classroom and to
empower future decision-makers through our professional
development programs.
Our portfolio of programs reach many people and in many
different ways:
Today is Big Day of Giving! Your donation will help
the Water Education Foundation continue its work to enhance
public understanding of our most precious natural resource
in in California and across the West – water.
Big Day of Giving is a 24-hour regional fundraising event that
has profound benefits for our educational programs and
publications on drought, floods, groundwater, and the importance
of headwaters in California and the Colorado River Basin.
Your tax-deductible donation of
any size helps support our tours, scholarships, teacher training
workshops, free access to our daily water newsfeed and more. You
have until midnight to help us reach our $15,000
fundraising goal!
Big Day of Giving is just around
the corner! Your donation helps support scholarships for
our tours, events &
workshops, expand Project WET teacher trainings
throughout California, provide free public access to
our Western
Water news coverage, updates to our
Layperson’s
Guides and more!
Donate todayor anytime
through May 2 to help us reach our fundraising goal
of $15,000!
Our popular water maps don the
office walls of many in the water world, and our Layperson’s
Guides are the go-to resource for impartial overviews of key
water topics and landmarks across California and the Southwest.
In recognition of Earth Day and National Environmental Education
Week, we’re offering a 20 percent discount
through April 27 on these educational products:
There is no need to wait to show
your love for the Water Education Foundation! Starting today, you
can donate to our Big Day of Giving campaign and help us reach
our fundraising goal of $15,000 by May 2.
Big Day of Giving is a 24-hour online fundraising marathon
for nonprofits. Donations will benefit our programs and
publications across California and the
West.
The Foundation’s Central Valley Tour at
the end of April is nearing capacity and while there’s still some
space on the tour, there’s another very exciting opportunity
on the horizon this summer to engage directly with
groundwater experts from California and across the world.
The Foundation’s Bay-Delta Tour in May
has already sold out, so don’t miss out on the remaining
opportunities this spring and summer to visit important regions
in the state’s water story firsthand and engage directly
with water experts in California and from across the world.
Central Valley Tour: April 24-26
NEARING CAPACITY!
Only a few seats remain on the bus for our Central Valley
Tour that travels the length of the San Joaquin
Valley to explore the challenges of sustaining one of the
nation’s most productive agricultural regions. Participants will
visit farms and some of the state’s major infrastructure, such as
Friant Dam and San Luis Reservoir, as well as the San Luis
National Wildlife Refuge, a major wintering ground and migratory
stopover point for large concentrations of waterfowl and
shorebirds. Register here before
tickets are gone!
Thirteen early
to mid-career water professionals from across the West have
been chosen to participate in the Water Education
Foundation’s 2024 Colorado River Water
Leaders cohort.
Like our California Water
Leaders program, the Colorado River Water
Leaders cohort includes engineers, lawyers, resource
specialists, scientists and others working for
public, private and nongovernmental organizations from
across the river’s basin in the United States and
Mexico. The 2024 cohort roster can be found
here.
Spring is a busy time at the Water Education
Foundation! Don’t miss these upcoming opportunities to visit
important regions in the state’s water story firsthand and
engage directly with water experts in California and across the
world. Plus, you can meet our team in person at our
annual open house to learn more about how
we educate and foster understanding of California’s most precious
natural resource — water!
Water 101 Workshop: April 5
Last call to register for our
Water
101 Workshop, an annual daylong course on California
water hosted at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento! View an agenda here for our popular workshop
that details the history, geography and the legal and political
facets of water in California. Plus, workshop participants are
invited to grab one of the few remaining seats on the
optional groundwater tour April 4. Find more details and
register
here by this Friday, March 29!
As our programs team at the Water
Education Foundation organizes annual events like next week’s
Water 101 Workshop, our journalism team raises water awareness
daily through Aquafornia, our water newsfeed that
helps you stay current.
Our journalists – Nick
Cahill, Chris Bowman,
Alastair
Bland and Jenn Bowles – have
covered water-related news for years, making them ideal curators
of the most important and interesting water stories from around
California and the West.
With National
Groundwater Awareness
Week approaching and 2024 marking the
10ᵗʰ anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in
California, these Water Education Foundation tours and events
will help you gain a deeper understanding of groundwater
fundamentals and the work being done to bring aquifers into
balance. Seating is limited and tickets are going
fast!
Don’t miss a once-a-year
opportunity to attend our Water 101
Workshop on April 5 to gain a deeper understanding
of California’s most precious natural resource.
One of our most popular events, the daylong workshop at
McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento offers anyone new to
California water issues or newly elected to a water district
board — and really anyone who wants a refresher — a chance to
gain a solid statewide grounding on California’s water resources.
Some of state’s leading policy and legal experts are on the
agenda for the workshop that details
the historical, legal and political facets of water management in
the state, including:
We’ve expanded our
digital Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta library. You can now
virtually visit the Delta by watching a series of short videos
that show its multiple dimensions: a hub of California’s
water supply, an agricultural cornucopia, a water playground and
a haven for fish and other wildlife.
