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Rock work to create passive rainwater harvesting.

East Valley Tribune

05/14/2018

You can collect more than 400 gallons of free water off the rooftop of a typical home from just half an inch of rain.

You can learn valuable information like this at the Living Green Hydrate Mesa series taking place on Tuesdays, starting... Read more

Students at Continental, photo by Kitty Bottemiller.

Green Valley News

04/26/2018

Continental would finally get some long-awaited greenery, courtesy of sound planning, muscle and what’s known as a rain garden, where storm water runoff is harvested and directed to plantings through channels created by land-contouring, berming... Read more

Santa Cruz River in 1904

Tucson Weekly

03/22/2018

Learn Something New

Drunk History of the Santa Cruz River: If you’ve ever seen Comedy Central’s Drunk History, you probably know that history has the potential to be fun in a whole new way when a drunk person is teaching it. For this... Read more

Tucson Morning Blend

02/08/2018

Watershed Management Group is hosting the Edible Shade Mesquite Pancake Breakfast to celebrate the delicious shade of mesquite! Jamie Manser explains that in addition to the amazing organic pancakes with locally sourced products, the event... Read more

Logan Phillips

Arizona Daily Star

02/06/2018

A few weeks ago, I found myself standing on the south side of the Cushing Street bridge with the mammoth pad for Caterpillar below, imagining the new view of Sentinel Peak and Tumamoc Hill with a huge, unimaginative office building in the... Read more

KGUN 9

02/04/2018

Monsoon's beauty can sometimes be overshadowed by the damage that is left behind. One community is celebrating after the completion of a new rain garden and hope that it will help contain future flooding as a result of heavy rainfall. 

New... Read more

Photo of green infrastructure at New Hope Church by Heather Janssen, Tucson News Now Multimedia Journalist

Tucson News Now

02/04/2018

When it rains, it pours in Tucson.

Flooding is a common problem many Tucsonans know well during the rainiest times of the year, monsoon. At New Hope Church off of Santa Clara Avenue and Valencia, they have become very familiar with... Read more

Photo by Julius Schlosburg

Tucson Foodie

02/03/2018

The Watershed Management Group is celebrating the delicious shade of mesquite and other edible desert-adapted vegetation with a mesquite pancake breakfast from 9 a.m. – noon on Sunday, February 11. 

The pancakes are one-of-a-kind because... Read more

Edible Shade Mesquite Pancake Breakfast

Arizona Daily Star

02/02/2018

Edible Shade Mesquite Pancake Breakfast — Watershed Management Group, 1137 N. Dodge Blvd. Live music, puppets, educational presentations, local nonprofits, and demonstrations. 9 a.m.-noon. Feb. 11. $8. 396-3266. Watershedmg.org/EdibleShade.

Harvesting Rainwater from Tucson Streets

KOLD News 13

01/09/2018

The City of Tucson is considering something that at one time could only be done on public areas, taking water that’s running down the street and using it for the landscape of a home.

It was on the city council study session on... Read more

WMG's Policy & Technical Director Catlow Shipek, center, along with WMG's River Restoration Biologist Trevor Hare (far left), Van Clothier with Stream Dynamics and a volunteer (right) are reviewing opportunities and strategies to restore lower Sabino Creek.

Zocalo Magazine

01/05/2018

During a period that stretched primarily between the 1940s and the 1960s, Tucson’s water table ultimately began to drop and its local perennial streams, creeks, and rivers started drying up. Today, as most Tucsonans know, what remains of our... Read more

Owl & Panther tour at Watershed Management Group in fall 2017.

Southwest Folkflife

10/27/2017

Once, Marge Pellegrino and a handful of volunteers took nine refugee youth to Mt. Lemmon to see snow. Within minutes they were jumping, sliding, and tossing it. “It was magical to watch them negotiate this thing they’d never seen before,”... Read more

Homescape Harvest Tour

KGUN 9 - The Morning Blend

10/23/2017

Watershed Management Group's Green Living Co-op Manager Dan Stormont and Public Relations Manager Jamie Manser discuss the 7th Annual Homescape Harvest Tour taking place on Saturday, October 28 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The tour includes Tucsonans who... Read more

A lush landscape supported by water harvesting.

Arizona Daily Star

10/22/2017

You can check out nearly three dozen gardens and landscapes at two garden tours on Saturday, Oct. 28. Among the stops is a do-it-yourself backyard that embraces desert landscaping. Another shows how a homeowner solved a flooding problem and... Read more

Earthworks created by WMG at a local home that is on the tour.

Edible Baja Arizona

10/18/2017

Tour some of the most eco-friendly homes in Tucson at Watershed Management Group’s 7th Annual Homescape Harvest Tour.

For the seventh year in a row, Watershed Management Group is partnering with some of Tucson’s most environmentally... Read more

The Weekly Green

KXCI's The Weekly Green

10/18/2017

WMG’s Homescape Harvest Tour is an annual event, now in its seventh year, to give people the opportunity to see what is is being done at residential and non-residential sites to regreen our neck of the woods. This year’s tour includes 22 such... Read more

Waterharvesting cistern and earthworks at a Tucson home.

Cronkite News

10/10/2017

Tucson and other parched Arizona cities offer rebates for businesses and homes that harvest rainwater, but the practice struggles to gain momentum in the Phoenix Valley.

The ancient method can conserve thousands of gallons of water,... Read more

WMG's Phoenix Program Manager Ryan Wood.

AZ Family Channel 3TV/CBS 5

09/24/2017

TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - "In an ideal scenario it would be the first source of water we go to," said Ryan Wood, program manager for Watershed Management Group.

Rainwater harvesting has been a practice for Wood and his family for years.... Read more

Curb cut in a local Tucson neighborhood

KVOA Channel 4

09/19/2017

Curb cuts enable storm water to drain from the street in to the dirt. Advocates of curb cutting claim cutting the curb and allowing water to be absorbed in to the ground can reduce flooding and benefit plant life.

"We're seeing more... Read more

Painting by Adela Antoinette

Edible Baja Arizona

08/29/2017

Through an incredible Edible Baja Arizona series called Rain to Table, Watershed Management Group Executive Director Lisa Shipek has been teaching our readers how to harvest rainwater in their own backyards since March. Harvesting rainwater is... Read more

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