Stewardship of Resources

Environmental Issues:

• LOCAL:

   

• NATIONAL:

  Clean Water Act: helpful links on the Clean Water Act

  • SC-Action Alerts: Clean Water Background Facts - Why HR 961 Must Be Stopped Paper on why HR 961 must be stopped
  • Defending the Environmental Agenda Newsletter by the Sierra Club includes Congressional information and Supreme Court rulings.
  • Clean Water Act.gopher menu List of Environmental Issues. Included is Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Groundwater.
  • Alaska 100% Exemption Paper concerning Alaska and the Clean Water Act possible repeal.
• GLOBAL: This is a work in progress. Eventually this section will have materials concerning the issues of control, equity and quality of water world wide.

Conservation Resources

• World Game Institute "The greatest challenge facing humanity is how to get the most people 'in the know' about the world and its problems in as quick a time as possible."
• Wetlands Roundtable This curriculum plan comes from Earth Generation's New York Educator's Guide, a print publication with 10 complete curriculum plans for junior high students investigating environmental issues relevant to the Great Lakes region.
• Worldwatch The Worldwatch Institute conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging global issues,the results of which are published and disseminated to decisionmakers, the media, and the public.
• EcoNet's Water Resource Menu of Econet's Water resources. This menu includes American Rivers, Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN), Internet Water Resources, Watersheds On The Internet, and Surfrider Foundation.
• Environment Canada's Communications Offices: Water Do's and Don'ts: Individuals Can Do Somehting About Conserving and Using Water Wisely! Includes sections on "In the Kitchen", "In the Bathroom", "In the Laundry Room", "In the Yard and Garden"
• International Ground Water Modeling Center at the Colorado School of Mines
• American Water Works Association An association to monitor devleopments in the field of drinking water and the public policy issures surrounding it.
• World Wide Water To assit those who wish to study water as it related to agriculture, politics and the environmnet organized by geographic area.
• On-Line Renewable Energy Education Module Small units on the areas of Solar, Wind Power, and Small Hydro areas.
• Ocean Planet Homepage Smithsonian Institute Aquarium. Visit different parts of the aquarium exhibit.
• Soil and Water Conservation Society Includes listings of Conservation resources including web sites, books, and media.
• City of Tempe, Arizona Tips on water conservation at home.

Water Conservation Activity

Outcomes

Students will collect, interpret, and display data concerning how much clean fresh water is wasted as we wait for the water to become warm in our faucet.

Procedures

Have students make predictions on the amount of time and the quantity of water wasted as they wait for the water to become warm in the faucet. Students will collect data at home that evening from both a bathroom and kitchen sink. Have students report data to class and find a class average. Ask students how they could make projections from their data to the city, state, and country. Have students use the internet to find the populations of their city, state, and country. Have students find the amount of water wasted per day per person and make projections based on population of the city, state, and country per day, per month, and per year. Have students graph these findings. Discuss possible solutions to the problem of water waste and how students can help at home and at school.

Materials

• a warm water faucet
• a pitcher or similar container to collect water
• stop watch or clock with second-hand
• calculator
• graph paper
• markers or colored pencils