Water
Water cycles through our watershed. It sustains life on Earth. It’s the ocean, the rain, the rivers, and makes up over half our body weight. It’s used for human consumption, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing and more. Clean water is a finite resource as the ever-increasing water shortages have made clear, and we can’t live without it.
Information relating to Water can also be found on these Topic Resource pages:
- Buildings (siting, design, operation)
- Grounds (landscape design, irrigation)
- Resource Management – Multiple Resources (source includes energy, water and material resource info)
Organizations and Programs
Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
Network of Oregon Watershed Councils
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Clean Water for Salmon Program
Salmon Safe Program
The Freshwater Trust
Tualatin Riverkeepers
World Water Monitoring Day
Stormwater
Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
Sustainable stormwater management information
Water News
11/9/2009 - Afloat in the ocean, expanding islands of trash
New York Times piece on Pacific Ocean gyre garbage patch