What You Can Do

Preventing Stormwater Pollution
Protecting Your Watershed
Water Conservation
Maintaining Your Septic System
Landscaping
Pollution Reduction

Sites with information that individuals can use at home or work to protect the environment and themselves. Realistic "how to" and "what to" lists starting with water then moving to other areas.

Preventing Stormwater Pollution

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After the Storm (PDF, 511KB, 5 pages) (HTML)
Bookmark: 10 Things You Can Do to Prevent Stormwater Runoff Pollution (PDF, 336KB, 2 pages)
More Ideas for Preventing Stormwater Runoff (also called Nonpoint Source Pollution)

Protecting Your Watershed

Watershed Tips

Adopt Your Watershed
A database of active watershed groups and information on how to start a watershed group.
Anglers and Aquatic Resource Protection
Become a Volunteer Water Monitor
Bird Conservation and Habitat Protection
Citizen's Guide to Protecting Our Coasts
Find out more about water pollution and how individuals can make a difference.
Fifteen Things You can Do to Make a Difference in Your Watershed
An Earth Day site to encourage community involvement.
Source Water Protection -- What Can You Do?
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water works with a number of partners to encourage public involvement in source water assessment and protection programs.

Water Conservation

Using Water Wisely in the Home (PDF, 235KB, 2 pages)
Cleaner Water Through Conservation
Water Saver Home
Learn what you can do to reduce water use in your home -- take a virtual tour of this Water Saver Home developed by the California Urban Water Conservation Council in partnership with EPA.
Water Efficiency
Information for homeowners, businesses, and municipalities.

Maintaining Your Septic System

A Homeowner's Guide to Septic Systems (PDF, 1.5MB, 19 pages )
More information on Septic Systems

Landscaping

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Green Landscaping
Water Efficient Landscape Planner
The Water Efficient Landscape Planner was developed to explain the advantages and principles of water efficient landscaping. (Downloadable software)
Water Efficient Landscaping (PDF, 1.6MB, 20 pages)

Pollution Reducation (Reuse, Reduce Recyle)

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Clear Your Home of Asthma Triggers
Asthma may be triggered by allergens and irritants that are common in homes.
Planning Environmentally Aware Events
The key to planning such an environmentally aware meeting or event is to set environmental priorities early in event planning and incorporate them into as many facets of the event as possible.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Source reduction, often called waste prevention, means consuming and throwing away less.
Your Car and Clean Air: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Pollution (PDF, 103KB, 3 pages)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has prepared this fact sheet to answer some of the most common questions about reducing emissions from private vehicles.

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the Adobe PDF files on this page. See EPA's PDF page for more information about getting and using the free Acrobat Reader.

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