The Ecology Center aims to help you and your community design systems and make the choices that conserve this precious resource, prevent its pollution and return it to its natural cycle.

We encourage you to explore the pages below for more detail on our global and local water woes and, more importantly, their solutions.

Water is everywhere - in our bodies, the air we breathe and the food we eat. It flows through the pipes in our walls and beneath our streets.

Click here for quick water access facts and figures and four questions worth knowing the answers to.

While you may have limited control over global water access (though we have a suggestion on that issue, too), you have a big role to play in maintaining the quality of our rivers, lakes, streams and oceans.

Click here to learn about seven threats to surface water quality and how to be sure you don’t contribute to them.

It takes 500 gallons of water to make a t-shirt, 1200 gallons to make a steak and 40,000 gallons to make a computer.

Click here and we’ll show you how it takes all that water to make all those products.

The Ecology Center’s new exhibit, Splash! How Good Water Works presents ten everyday solutions to defeating the 1800 gallon-a-day water monster we call the Juggernaut.

Click here to learn how to defeat your Juggernaut.

 

World Economic Forum No Reason Video

GOOD: Water