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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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 — 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
My husband and I bought a home in May and we were thrilled the house was already outfitted with gutters and a 1,300-gallon rainwater harvesting tank. When we moved in, the tank sat full of water, while the desert-adapted vegetation in the... Read more