While you’re at the Minnesota State Fair, visit the Eco Experience and learn about protecting water, recycling and conserving energy.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, includes:
Blyth Berg Brookman and Tom Skramstad were elected Aug. 17 as the new chair and vice chair of the Freshwater Society Board of Directors. For biographies of board members, click … Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that half of all the water put on lawns each year is wasted. Here are some tips to help you save water and have a green lawn:
Minnesotans used 1.4 trillion gallons of water in 2007. The electrical power industry used 839 billion gallons, mostly for pass-through cooling. Public waterworks used 227 billion gallons. Industries – led by mines and paper producers — used 167 billion gallons. Farmers and other users pumped 167 billion gallons for irrigation. None of the totals includes many small – less than 10,000 gallons a day or 1 million gallons a year — private wells that are not required to report their water usage to the state. — Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Are you looking for a great holiday gift? Is there someone on your gift list who is interested in weather, astronomy and great nature photographs from Minnesota and Wisconsin? Or … Read more
The Freshwater Society gave away fact sheets on water sustainability, demonstrated the way groundwater travels within aquifers and answered scores of questions from visitors to a Freshwater table at a two-day special celebration of water hosted by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
What is 2010 – The Year of Water? Water is a key component to life is Minnesota, whether it is water recreation, fishing or spending weekends at the lake. … Read more
Did you know some grasses require a half- inch or less of water each week and on average only need to be mowed once a year? Would you like to learn how to plant a green roof to prevent water pollution? Did you know that the U.S. is the largest consumer of water in the world per capita because of the goods that we import?
Leaky, dripping faucets and showerheads waste water – lots of water. Even a very slow drip, the kind that takes 10 seconds to form on the end of the faucet, … Read more
Do you linger in the shower? Do you let the water run while you shave or brush your teeth?
Do you prefer a T-bone to tofu?
How do you commute to work? By bike or by car?
Do you have a green lawn that requires regular sprinkling, or native plants that get along on whatever rain falls on them?
Lifestyle choices – some of them big conscious decisions, some of them preferences and habits that are part of our culture and the environment in which we live – determine how much water we all consume.
