What is Know Your Watershed?
It is a coordinated national effort to
encourage the formation of local, voluntary watershed partnerships and
help assure that these partnerships successfully attain their
goals.
Who sponsors it?
The initiative is sponsored
by more than 70 diverse National Partners representing private and
public corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.
Each National Partner agrees to provide financial and/or in-kind
support.
Who coordinates it?
The national effort is
coordinated by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a
non-profit data and technology information transfer center.
What do you do?
In addition to coordinating
the National Watershed Network, National Watershed Calendar, and many
other on-going tools for watershed coordinators, the effort also...
- Stimulates multiplication of
consistent messages among all National Partners to state and local
leaders of organizations, government agencies and companies.
- Serves as a conduit between National
Partners who have useful tools and coordinators of local watershed
partnerships.
- Shares state activities and successes
with state-level stakeholders in other states and regions.
- Facilitates and/or encourages
broad-based state-level partnerships that encourage and provide
support to local watershed partnerships.
- Encourages use and sharing of
processes and methods that have been found to work successfully for
watershed coordinators.
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