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Welcome!  You are about to enter a fun, multi-media interactive learning world where sight, sound, and real-time participation will enhance your learning experience.  We invite you to explore the sections at your convenience as many times as you would like.

You are likely to find that each time you explore a section, you’ll pick up different bits of information.  Videos, sounds, photos, and diagrams bring these sections to life as a friendly narrator guides you through these lessons:

Water Matters:

• Why water conservation is important
• How the County’s demonstration projects are conserving water
• Ways we can protect water resources indoors and outdoors
• How our water is treated
• How we can help protect our water quality
• The County’s Water Matters outreach programs

At the end of each lesson, you can choose to complete a quiz to see what you've learned. For fun, your scores will show at the end.

Navigation Tips and Extra Learning Tools

As you navigate through the lessons, click the buttons on the bottom right of the screen to pause, play, or skip to the beginning or end. You can click the lesson buttons in the left frame at any time to go to that lesson. If you'd like to take notes to refer to later, simply type them in the box at the bottom right called "My Notes".

Bonus Resources

Throughout the lessons, when you see an icon appear in the bottom corner of your screen -- click on it to connect to all sorts of extra resources. The "web" icon will link to a website that gives you additional information on that topic you may find useful. The "pdf" icon will link to a document or other reference source you can view or print.

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