Before water usage or water quality issues can be understood on a grander scale, each individual needs to understand how their daily life and the personal decisions that they make directly impacts water usage and quality.
Some people think that the earth constantly gets new water but in reality, no new water is made.
The water we have now is all the water we are ever going to have or have had in the past. It is the same finite source of water in a closed system, the earth, that is constantly recycled on our planet. As parents, teachers and educators, each of us shares in the responsibility of educating ourselves, and children in the importance and usage of our most precious resource, water. To this end, Georgia 4-H has identified water as an issue for the next three years. Resources, sources of information, speakers, workshops and conferences on water issues will be shared in an effort to better inform our audiences about this most important issue.