Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Supporters of CIWR: this space provides me an opportunity to reflect on WaterLab, UCSC's Water Teaching and Research Laboratory, which was returned to the Watsonville Water Resources Center earlier this year. During its several years of operation, WaterLab provided an exciting location for student research and learning, spanning Pajaro Valley elementary students through graduate students, as well as community members. Students from UCSC and Hartnell studied water reuse from multiple perspectives using WaterLab's unique resource o