November 2008

      By Kerry Fleisher

High Efficiency Toilet Program Saves Low Income
Families and Small Businesses Water and Money

With California in the middle of a drought, and water prices on the rise, property owners are turning to water saving toilets and other devices to reduce residential and commercial water use. Nonprofit San Francisco Community Power (SF Power), with funding from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), recently launched a program to install 2,000 high efficiency toilets for free to qualifying homes and smallbusinesses in the City. (more...)

      July 2008

      By Alex Lantsberg

San Francisco’s Sewer System in Line for a Make-Over

This year almost 20 inches of rain will fall on San Francisco.  Most of it will land on City streets, where it’ll mix with road waste and flow into a 900-mile network of pipes, pumps, and treatment plants before being discharged into the bay or ocean...(more...)

March 29, 2005
By Lorraine Sanders

The Dirt on Carwashes

With their heavy water use and sudsy asphalt lots, commercial car washes may seem like environmentally un-friendly establishments... (more...)

March 26, 2005
By Randall Frost

Storm Runoffs May Pose Health, Environmental Risks

San Francisco is one of only two cities in the state – the other being Old Sacramento -- that treat storm water, domestic sewage, and industrial wastewater together... (more...)

February 28, 2005
By Erica Gies

In the Swim: Water Quality at Aquatic Park

At 11 o’clock sharp, four days a week, Dolphin Club-member Lou Marcelli enters the frigid water at Aquatic Park along San Francisco’s northern waterfront for a 20-minute swim... (more...)

February 24, 2005
By Daniel Porras

New Tsunami Warning System Installed at Ocean Beach

On an unseasonably warm afternoon at Ocean Beach, surfers ride the waves while kite flyers, lovers, and families enjoy the sun and breeze... (more...)