H20 What Do You Know?

Water, our most precious resource. It is important that our children grow into responsible adults who can make logical decisions that will result in a sustainable water supply for the future. Teaching children to value and protect their drinking water is an important investment in the future, as well as an excellent way to send a message home to parents: Conservation is everybody's responsibility.

Drinking Water & Our Health

The health and livelihood of Americans depends on the availability of a safe drinking water supply. In some portions of the nation drinking water is a scarce resource, while in other areas abundant water supplies are available. Community water systems now supply drinking water to over 80 percent of the U.S. population. Other citizens drink water from private sources, mostly wells. Increasing water demands from a growing population, economic expansion and increasing use per capita mean that we need to emphasize the wise use, proper management and protection of this resource.(http://www.usawaterquality.org)

This web site was designed to enable teachers to access water conservation resources. This resource includes access to free information, articles, water conservation units, lesson plans, experiments, book list, and activities to help facilitate instruction of the concept of water. All the lesson plans are geared for K-6, however, most can be adapted to fit a specific level of instruction.

Our Water Resources

Pages created by Kim Hill along with Bellingham DPW's Public Education Water Administrator, Lori Fafard

Clean Water Act


Full title	Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972
Acronym / colloquial name	CWA / Clean Water Act
Enacted by the	92nd United States Congress
Effective	October 18, 1972
Citations
Public Law	P.L. 92-500
U.S. Statutes at Large	86 Stat. 816 (1972)
Codification
Act(s) amended	Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Title(s) amended	33 (Navigable Waters)
U.S.C. sections created	33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S.2770 by Edmund Muskie on October 28, 1971 Committee consideration by: Senate Public Works Committee Passed the Senate on November 2, 1971 Passed the House on March 29, 1972 Reported by the joint conference committee on October 4, 1972; agreed to by the House on October 4, 1972 and by the Senate on October 4, 1972 Signed into law by President Richard Nixon (Congressional override of Presidential Veto) on October 18, 1972
Major amendments
Clean Water Act of 1977; Water Quality Act of 1987