I spent several hours working the information booth for the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association at Durham's annual Festival on the Eno this 4th of July weekend.
It was gratifying to see the number of groups represented there that are actively involved in keeping our planet healthy.
Two things became very clear. Those that are involved in these organizations are well-informed and passionate about protecting our forests, wetlands, animals and waterways and especially those lands that help keep the balance between people living on and off the land and sustaining that land for future generations. The second thing was that large numbers of our population have only a vague idea of why this is important.
With all the publicity that the Falls Lake water quality issue has generated recently in our area, I would have thought that more people would have an understanding of the relationship between their drinking water and land use. Sadly that is not so.
Everyone of us that uses water lives in a watershed. Do you know which watershed you live in? Do you know how your actions affect your watershed?
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