Invigorate the Common Well is an Initiative: To inspire gratitude for Water, one of the most precious gifts of life. To listen to the teachings of water toward the interconnectedness of all life, as it tunes our hearts and minds towards the value of "THE COMMONS", a founding principal of the USA. To invest our financial and imaginative resources towards "THE COMMONS" - the non-partisan, collective assurance of healthy water for all - with a faith that sustainable, healthy systems are possible within urban and rural settings. To connect our drinking water, and all our local water practices to the Mississippi River Watershed,-- to understand that our bodies, our individual practices, are literally part of the Mississippi Watershed. To connect our local drinking water experience with the large issues facing global water quality, consumption, conservation, and ownership - that the Mississippi Watershed connects with all the Water in the world. To conduct public art/ecology residencies throughout the region to invigorate public wells (drinking fountains) as places of meeting, of physical and spiritual sustenance while educating and engaging the public in major local and global water concerns. To discourage the proliferation of plastic water bottles mounting up in land fills of the world. To encourage the collective power of individual citizens toward water stewardship in everyday practices, enacting positive change upon the problems created by the accumulation of the individual actions. MANY THANKS TO OUR PROJECT ADVISORS: Annika M. Bankston, P.E., Minneapolis Water Works Gemma Bulos, International Water Networker Tara Chadwick,