Global Clean Water

Actions

you can take to protect our water....

Find out how much water you use. Visit the Water Calculator and see what you can do to cut back. http://h2oconserve.org

Stop drinking bottled water. Choose tap water over bottled water whenever possible. Create a bottled water free zone in your classroom, campus, workplace, union, community center, city hall, environmental organization, or faith-based group. http://polarisinstitute.org/water, http://thinkoutsidethebottle.org

Help create a clean water trust fund. Support public control of water resources and increased funding for public drinking water by signing a petition urging Congress to create a Clean Water Trust Fund. http://foodandwaterwatch.org/ water/trust-fund

Conserve water inside. Retrofit with efficient appliances and fixtures, take shorter showers, check faucets for leaks and drips. http://awwa.org/waterwiser

Conserve water outside. Reduce lawn size and choose draught-tolerant xeriscapes. You can also recycle municipal water and on-site gray-water, or harvest rainwater to use in the garden. http://bewaterwise.com, http://rainwaterharvesting.net

Learn about your watershed. Form a watershed group. River Keeper organizations, Friends of Creeks groups, and watershed councils are springing up all over the country. http://4sos.org/wssupport/ group_support/form_run.asp

Help keep your watershed healthy. Support or start water-quality monitoring programs. Citizen-based water-quality monitoring is an accessible and meaningful way to understand the health of your waterways. (http://healthywater.org)

Clean up agriculture. Buy local and organic food. Help with the implementation of on-farm water conservation and protection programs. (http://polarisinstitute.org/water, http://nrcs.usda.gov/programs)

Protect groundwater from depletion and degradation. Help ensure legislation to manage and protect all groundwater. Unlike our system of surface-water rights, the extraction of unlimited quantities of groundwater is largely unregulated. http://groundwater.org

Clean up agriculture. Buy local and organic food. Help with the implementation of on-farm water conservation and protection programs. (http://polarisinstitute.org/ water http://nrcs.usda.gov/programs)

Support the right to water for everyone. Learn more about grassroots movements for water democracy and support for a United Nations covenant on the right to water. http://blueplanetproject.net

Help spread the word. Visit WaterConsciousness.org for more information or to buy a copy of this book for a friend. http://waterconsciousness.org