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H2Ouse
Learn how to conserve water at your house on this interactive website.
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Water Use Efficiency Program
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Actions
You Can Take to Reduce Lead in Drinking Water
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Do's and Don'ts
Around the Home
Looking at practices around your house that might be contributing
to polluted runoff.
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How to Conserve
Water and Use It Effectively
A narrow-to-wide focus on water conservation
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Fifteen Things You can Do to Make a Difference in Your Watershed
An Earth Day site to encourage community involvement.
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Private Drinking
Water Wells
Testing the quality of a private drinking water supply
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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.
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What You Can
do to Prevent Nonsource Pollution A handful of documents with
information about preventing nonpoint source pollution. NPS pollution
is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground.
As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made
pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands,
coastal waters, and even our underground sources of drinking water
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Adopt Your Watershed
A database of active watershed groups and information on how to start
a watershed group.
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Water Efficient
Landscape Planner
The Water Efficient Landscape Planner was developed to explain the
advantages and principles of water efficient landscaping. (Downloadable
software)
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A Citizen's Guide to Protecting Our Coasts ![Exit EPA Disclaimer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508005237im_/http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/images/epafiles_misc_exitepadisc.gif)
Find out more about water pollution and how individuals can make a
difference.
- How You Can Keep
the Air Cleaner
This chart, found at the bottom of the AIRNow "What You Can Do" page
contains tips for both "every day" and Ozone Action Days.
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Ozone Depletion
Resource Center: Individual Actions to Protect the Ozone Layer
Cars, home appliances, and reporting violations.
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10 Indoor Air Hazards
to Watch For ![Exit EPA Disclaimer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508005237im_/http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/images/epafiles_misc_exitepadisc.gif)
In homes across America, the quality of indoor air can be worse than
outdoor air.
- 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
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.
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Clear Your Home of Asthma
Triggers
Asthma may be triggered by allergens and irritants that are common
in homes.
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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.
- Ten Tips to Protect
Children from Pesticide and Lead Poisonings around the Home
(Also available in a Spanish Version)
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Protect Your
Family and Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
The "Prevention is the Key to Avoiding Carbon Monoxide Poisoning"
section contains a list of suggestions- DOs and DON'Ts.
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Using
Insect Repellents Safely
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Action
Steps for Sun Protection
While some exposure to sunlight can be enjoyable, too much can be
dangerous. Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight
can result in a painful sunburn. It can also lead to more serious
health effects, including skin cancer, premature aging of the skin,
and other skin disorders; cataracts and other eye damage; and immune
system suppression.
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Sunwise School Program for Kids
Children are particularly at risk of overexposure, since most of the
average person's lifetime exposure occurs before the age of 18.
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Hazardous Waste Disposal
Household information that includes prevention, smart shopping, homemade
remedies, reusing, recycling, and composting.
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Guidelines
for Safe Disposal
Guide to household waste disposal. Part of the household hazardous
waste disposal site.
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The
Stored Waste Abatement Program, or SWAP
A program that links people with usable but unwanted products with
others who would use those products.
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The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
Individual consumers can help alleviate America's mounting trash problem
by making environmentally aware decisions about everyday things like
shopping and caring for the lawn.
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Tips for Reducing Solid Waste
Part of the Consumer Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste.
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Waste
Not, Want Not: Feeding the Hungry and Reducing Solid Waste Through
Food Recovery
In the United States, we not only produce an abundance of food, we
waste an enormous amount of it. More than one quarter of America's
food, or about 96 billion pounds of food a year, goes to waste--in
fields, commercial kitchens, manufacturing plants, markets, schools,
and restaurants. While not all of this excess food is edible, much
of it is and could be going to those who need it.