The Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by tabling at the Fiesta de Independencia at the Luther Bubank Center in Santa Rosa on Sunday, September 14, 2025. The Fiesta has free admission and plenty of family-friendly fun to enjoy. Make sure that you drop by our booth for water saving tips and devices!

You’ve planted your native pollinator garden, or native plant landscape. Now, how do you maintain it? April Owens, Landscape Architect, will explain how landscape maintenance for pollinators differs from traditional landscape. Join us for an hour workshop followed by an optional trip to the Michael A. Hall Pollinator Garden for some hands-on gardening.

Each year, the Partnership publishes an Annual Report detailing accomplishments over the year. All of the small changes the community has made slowly added up to some impressive numbers like the 372,698 square feet of turf that was removed. That's six and half football fields! See the annual report here. All Annual Reports

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership with two WaterSense Sustained Excellence awards – one as a Promotional Partner and one for the partnership’s Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper program as a Professional Certifying Organization. WaterSense honored its Sustained Excellence, Partner of the Year and Excellence Award winners during the WaterSmart Innovations Conference in Las Vegas. The Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership was one of 19 Sustained Excellence Award winners. WaterSense recognized the Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership for its water conservation achievements in 2023, including coordinating the partnership’s Dye Tab Challenge contest with the WaterSense Program’s Fix-a-Leak…