UNDERSTAND, PROTECT AND CONSERVE WATER
1. Wiki Watershed: toolkit for freshwater stewardship (monitoring, sensors, teacher curriculum). This also has a FREE online GIS landuse and stromwater mapping tool.
2. Surf Your Watershed -find out your local watershed- we all live in one!
3. Find a local volunteer water quality monitoring group
4. Wisdom and Consciousness of Water through Dr. Masaru Emoto's work
5. About aquatic macroinvertebrates as indicators of water quality
ORGANIZATIONS to Check Out!
1. Stroud Water Research Center - freshwater information, streamside buffers2. River Network
3. Waterkeeper Alliance- to find your local watershed protection group (non-governmental)
4. 5 Gyres- they strive to inform others about plastic pollution in oceans; research
5. Rainforest Flow
BOOKS on different qualities of WATER
1. Masaru Emoto's beautiful books: Love Thyself, Messages from Water, Messages from Water and the Universe2. Water: for health, for healing, for life: F. Batmanghelidji, M.D.
3. Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water: Phillip Ball
4. The Infinite River: William Amos
5. Blue Mind: Wallace J. Nichols
WAYS to HELP WATERS of the EARTH!
In communities
1. Love Peace Harmony Water Project-join many others in sending love to local waterways!
3. Conduct your own river clean up, using the model from this program in Georgia (you can search locally too with land conservancy's or watershed groups-they're easy to organize!).
With YOU! Start with just a few changes and notice how you feel.
4. Be aware of the SOURCE of your food (how far it traveled to get to you, how much water is typically used for growing , are they sustainable practices (e.g. fisheries), were chemicals used in the process of growing/harvesting that won't serve your body, the land and water well, etc.)
5. Are your clothes healthy for you, the land and water? They are all connected. Some plants (e.g. cotton) not only use a lot of water but are chemically intensive to grow. Do your clothes come from a country that doesn't have protective laws for their waterways and can dump polluted water (from dying your clothing) into a local stream or the ocean?
6. Minimize your consumption of 'things' and packaging.
7. Be aware that your choices have an effect on water.
8. Get out on the water and give love and gratitude!
9. Take time to learn from the many teachings water gives us in every moment.
10. Bring others to awareness of water
11. Celebrate World Water Day (every day and moment!), March 22nd
c. NOAA Data (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
4. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Reports on Water Quality
5. Water filtration:
FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS
MOVIES/VIDEOS
With YOU! Start with just a few changes and notice how you feel.
4. Be aware of the SOURCE of your food (how far it traveled to get to you, how much water is typically used for growing , are they sustainable practices (e.g. fisheries), were chemicals used in the process of growing/harvesting that won't serve your body, the land and water well, etc.)
5. Are your clothes healthy for you, the land and water? They are all connected. Some plants (e.g. cotton) not only use a lot of water but are chemically intensive to grow. Do your clothes come from a country that doesn't have protective laws for their waterways and can dump polluted water (from dying your clothing) into a local stream or the ocean?
6. Minimize your consumption of 'things' and packaging.
7. Be aware that your choices have an effect on water.
8. Get out on the water and give love and gratitude!
9. Take time to learn from the many teachings water gives us in every moment.
10. Bring others to awareness of water
11. Celebrate World Water Day (every day and moment!), March 22nd
WATER QUALITY (drinking, filtration & river data)
1. Environmental Working Group's Tap Water Guide (put in your zip code and find the report on your local municipal drinking water supply).
2. How do I get my drinking water tested?
2. How do I get my drinking water tested?
A. One company of many that has certified labs in various states of the U.S.
http://www.watercheck.com/products.html
B. Go to your local/state extension website such as this one in Pennsylvania, which
have a certified testing lab.
3. How do I find data on my local stream, river or lake? There's not (yet) a one-stop show for this. Sometimes you'll need to contact your local watershed monitoring group, and your state department of environmental protection should also have data online for viewing. Here are some other sites.
b. U.S. EPA Databasec. NOAA Data (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
4. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Reports on Water Quality
5. Water filtration:
Ph'ion water devices
Structured Water Devices
FOR TEACHERS & EDUCATORS
1. Project WET(Water Education for Teachers) Curriculum
2. Early Childhood Education (Getting Little Feet WET) Curriculum
*Both of these programs offer trainings in the U.S.
3. Macroinvertebrates.org
*Both of these programs offer trainings in the U.S.
3. Macroinvertebrates.org
MOVIES/VIDEOS
1. Water Memory
ALSO...see my blog site page on WILD WATER, with videos of rivers from around the world!
ALSO...see my blog site page on WILD WATER, with videos of rivers from around the world!
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