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Around the house, the business, the neighborhood and on the streets, there
is much we can do to make a difference and protect the environment
- What can you do to protect water quality? Practical ideas of how you can make a difference.
- Waterwise Landscaping by local author Jim Knopf offers water conservation tips and background information
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Natural History of a House and Yard on Marine Street by John McClellan (additional material coming Summer 2000)
- Household Hazards & Alternatives:tips on the environmental consequences of household chemicals and less harmful alternatives.
- Storm Water Demonstration Project: The Environmental Center of the Rockies building at Broadway and Baseline in Boulder is attempting to minimize the impact from polluted storm runoff by capturing the water on site with a miniature wetland.
Current BASIN News featuring story on a new open space initiative along Coal Creek above Superior.
Students in a CU Environmental Design class are solicting information from the general public regarding current water consumption habits. This class project will later present the resulting water consumption statistics with conservation techniques.
How do we build, from the inside out, more sustainable communities and a greater understanding of the natural environment we inhabit?
- Essays on Sustainability by local authors Al Bartlett and Pete Palmer provide insight into the complexities and challenges of sustainable communities.
- Waterwise Quizzes: Test Your H2O IQ
- Vision for the Environment: excerpted from the Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative 1998 Report
Read the BASIN Stakeholder Update for the latest "behind the scenes" of the project. Email us for more information on how you can become a stakeholder.
Check out the BASIN Calendar of local events relating to water and the environment.
What
can I do every day to make a difference?
What are some of the tools
I can use to be better informed and aware of the local environment?
Where does my water come from? How do I use it? Where does it go downstream?
How can I get involved in local environmental efforts?
"We all live downstream" is an expression
which reminds us
of how the hydrologic cycles connect us with the larger
environmental systems the surround us.
Yet water is so common in our everyday lives
we often don't stop to think about the basics:
"Where does my water come from?"
"How am I impacting the water I use?"
"What happens to the water downstream?"
Given that many key environmental issues are connected to water and yet we often take water for granted in our lives, these are important questions to explore.
In this section of the BASIN website, we examine a variety of indicators relating to community and environmental health that have to do with water in the Boulder area, including the environmental indicators put together by the Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative (BCHCI) and the EPA's Index of Watershed Indicators. We also examine the water quality data available on the BASIN website to look for important indicators of stream health, and water consumption data from recent studies conducted on domestic water use in the region.
Finally, we look at things we can do in our everday lives to become more "waterwise" and environmentally aware.
- In-depth guide to caring for trees during drought from the City of Boulder Forestry Division.
- Tips on residential water conservation from the City of Boulder, the H2OUSE web site.
- Enviroscapes: Interactive models demonstrating water pollution and prevention.
- Non Point Source Pollution: Colorado Water Protection Project --League of Women Voters
- Waterknowledge links from the Stream
- Terrene Institute: National Non-Profit focusing on non-point source pollution and wetlands issues
- City of Boulder Neighborhood Liaison Website
- City of Boulder Greenways Program
- City of Boulder General Water Information: boulderutilities.net
- Boulder Creek Cam @ Boulder Public Library (scroll to bottom of page)
- Composting Tips (and a tip of the hat to Eric Johnson)
- Virtual Chautauqua
- Boulder Community Network
- Natural Resources Law Center at CU Boulder
- Center for the American West at CU Boulder
- Boulder County Almanac - Boulder Daily Camera's online overview of Boulder County
- Environmental Defense Fund Scorecard
Other Communities in the in the Boulder Area
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City of Longmont Water and WasteWater Department
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Map of Louisville (+200K)
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- Town of Superior
The Town of Nederland currently has no website.... but be sure to check out the Rocky Mountain CAM near Nederland with view of the Arapahoe Peaks region.