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USGS Water Resources Information
Colorado
NAWQA Program - The NAWQA Program studies status and trends in the waters of the United States.
USGS Water Resources of California - Contains realtime streamflow, current conditions in California, data, maps, features, and reports. Updated daily.
Water Quality of San Francisco Bay - The current and past water quality of the SF Bay-Estuary, including temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and other measurements

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.