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Winter 2025 Edition
The High Desert Droplet is a collection of tips to help you prevent stormwater pollution in your community.
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Mojave River Watershed Group Talks to 350 Future Environmental Leaders at Innovators High Desert Water Summit
The Mojave River Watershed Group had a great time at the Innovators High Desert Water Summit, connecting with students and educators about the importance of watershed protection. Our team demonstrated the Enviroscape, an interactive model that shows how pollution moves through our waterways. Through hands-on learning, students and educators gained valuable insights into stormwater pollution and steps we need to take to protect our local watershed. It was exciting to engage with so many future environmental stewards and share ways to keep the High Desert’s water clean!
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Creation Station: Spread the Love by Showing the Love 🌎
This month, spread the love by showing love for the planet! Get creative with arts and crafts that are both eco-friendly and meaningful. Whether you're recycling or upcycling, you're helping reduce waste to keep our environment clean—all while making something special.
Gift it to someone special and share the love in more ways than just one. Join us this last week of February in making a positive impact, one creation at a time.
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Future Troopers … Gather!
How can you join the force as a Stormwater Trooper?
Start by understanding stormwater pollution and how it affects our planet. When it rains, water flows over surfaces like roads, rooftops and lawns, collecting harmful contaminants like oil, chemicals, trash, dirt and more. This polluted water often runs straight into storm drains and waterways where it can cause serious damage to ecosystems, wildlife and our water quality.
But here's the good news: You can be a Stormwater Trooper every day by making a few simple changes to your daily habits!
1.) Pick up after your pets
2.) Avoid littering & pick it up when you see it
3.) Make recycling part of your routine
By doing this, you’ll help protect the Mojave River Watershed—a main source of water in the High Desert—from harmful pollutants.
To learn more about how you can make a difference, check out these tips and resources at our website below or follow us on social media @MojaveWatershed.
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Be Part of the Change ... Volunteer!
Stormwater pollution is a major concern for the health of our planet, including our home in the High Desert. Polluted runoff can harm the Mojave River Watershed—our region’s vital source of water. Understanding how it happens and how we can prevent it is key to protecting the local environment and wildlife.
The Mojave River Watershed Group invites all High Desert residents to join us in our mission to protect and preserve our desert’s water quality. Volunteering at a city-organized Clean Up Day is an impactful way to take action and make a real difference. Plus, you might just make a friend!
It’s all too common seeing plastic bags, fast food wrappers and discarded auto fluid bottles scattered across our desert fields. But when community members come together, we can remove debris in just a few hours, restoring the desert to its natural beauty and reducing stormwater runoff pollution.
To get involved in your community, be sure to check your local community and/or city calendar for a list of upcoming clean-up days and recycling opportunities.
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Thanks, Partner 🤝
It takes a village. The Mojave River Watershed Group's Stormwater Trooper Business Alliance is an important way we protect our local communities from pollution. With 18 business parters and counting, we are proud to have other High Desert leaders on our force to help protect the Mojave River Watershed, its plants and wildlife.
Thank you to our newest business partners!
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