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Water is nature’s gift falling from the sky at no cost. Some locales are blessed with abundant water. Others, including Marin, have less.  

The water agency is making progress on its strategic water supply roadmap, which outlines several efforts to add new water supplies, including a new pump and pipeline between Phoenix Lake and Bon Tempe Reservoir.

The idea that a supermajority of voters will support any revenue increase is collapsing.

A higher price structure that took effect in July has recently started showing up in customer invoices.

Marin Municipal Water District staff said the agency should instead prioritize a more urgent security risk with its main software system.

The action comes as negotiations drag on for about 200 workers represented by Service Employees International Union Local 1021.

The Marin Municipal Water District plans to hire consulting teams to conduct in-depth analyses of reservoir expansion, desalination and Russian River aqueduct projects.

Students from the Center for Advanced Technical Studies (The Center) competed in several nationwide contests at the Technology Student Association (TSA) National Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky on June 28 through July 2. Representing all four high schools in School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties, students participated in contests ranging from engineering challenges

For 378 days, the foursome--physician Nathan Jones, MD, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, microbiologist Ancca Selariu, Ph.D., and biomedical researcher and ultrarunner Kelly Haston, Ph.D.--will isolate themselves in a 3D-printed structure called Mars Dune Alpha, which sits inside a large white warehouse at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. Inside the 1,700-square-foot habitat (NASA's word for Mars Dune Alpha), the crew will live and work as if they really are in a spacecraft on ...

Students from the Center for Advanced Technical Studies (The Center) competed in several nationwide contests at the Technology Student Association (TSA) National Conference June 28 through July 2 held in