


With these pollution sources in mind, National Water Quality Month celebrations can include cleaning up your local water sources (such as streams, rivers, lakes or oceans), planting trees to prevent soil erosion, monitoring your area’s water quality, or other solutions and activities that can lead to conserving and cleaning our water. These include dumping industrial effluents, fertilizer runoff, leakage of sewage waste, and chemicals used at home, such as pesticides. Schneller-McDonald presents the basics of water resource protection. The National Water Quality Month website identifies four major sources of freshwater pollution. di Karen Schneller-McDonald - Cornell University Press. Connecting the drops by Karen Schneller-McDonald, 2015, Cornell University Press edition, in English. As a county that is close to not just one but two major bodies of water in our state, the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River, reflecting on water quality is especially important. Water serves as an integral part of the individual, agricultural, and environmental health. It’s National Water Quality Month! This is a month dedicated to reflecting on the clean water we have and making the most of it.
