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The Environmental Resources Center website has moved to http://www.uwex.edu/erc.                 MAKE A SPLASH! -- Do you know of a youth group or class that wants to take action to improve local water quality? With Give Water A Hand, young people team up with educators, natural resource experts and committed community members to study water issues and take ACTION! To learn more about Give Water a Hand and how you can launch this successful program in your community, school or home, click here. Find out how YOU can Give Water A Hand!

What do you know about water quality in your community? Do the wild animals, birds, and fish have clean, healthy places to live? Do you care about the streams, lakes or wetlands in your neighborhood? Do you know where your drinking water comes from? Is it being polluted by storm runoff, industrial wastes, or other local sources of pollution?

Most important, what do young people know about these issues? Do the wild animals, birds, and fish have clean, healthy places to live? Do they have skills needed to protect local water resources? How can young people become active environmental stewards?

If these questions make you curious about local water quality and what you can do to help, click here to find out more about Give Water A Hand!

What is Give Water A Hand?

Give Water A Hand is national watershed education program designed to involve young people in local environmental service projects. Following steps in the Give Water A Hand Action Guide (download it for FREE!), your youth group or class plans and completes a community service project to protect and improve water resources.

Here's how it works....Give Water A Hand program activities are presented in two publications -- the youth Action Guide and the Leader Guidebook (for youth leaders and teachers). These easy-to-follow, illustrated guides show how to organize and carry out effective action-oriented projects. To see the basic steps you'll follow to protect and improve your watershed resources, click here.

You can obtain the guides for FREE, by downloading them from this web site.

The Action Guide is also available in Spanish! 

CLICK HERE to download the Guía de Acción FOR FREE!

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For a printed version of the Guía de Acción, please contact our office.

Give Water A Hand 210 Hiram Smith Hall 1545 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706-1289 Phone: 800-WATER20 (800-928-3720) Fax: 608-262-2031 E-mail: erc@uwex.edu
Give Water A Hand is a program of the University of Wisconsin - Environmental Resources Center. Support for Give Water a Hand is provided by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; the US Department of Agriculture, CSREES and NRCS; Church & Dwight, Co., Inc., and the University of Wisconsin.
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