1. I make an effort to conserve water. 1.Yes 2.No 3.Sometimes

2. Precious Resource

3. Water Resources Availability. Access. Use. Types of pollution. Case study: developed and developing. Culture.

4. Scale Local: creeks and river. Regional: Puget Sound and Mississippi Basin. Global: Pacific Ocean.

7. Water Need 1,000 cubic meters/year. Growing food. Drinking. Hygiene.

8. Availability

10. Percent of access to potable water.

11. Accessibility One billion lack potable water.

12. Worldwide Water Use

14. U.S. Water Use in 2000

15. U.S. Water Use

18. (Some) Pollution Types Sanitation. Agricultural by-product: pesticides and fertilizers. Industrial by-product. Non-point urban runoff: residential and commercial. Particulates/sediment. Trash.

19. What do 700 million people in India not have access to? 1.Clean drinking water 2.A toilet 3.Sufficient irrigation water

20. Ganges River

21. Accessibility 2.6 billion lack proper sanitation.

22. Relative Water Quality

23. Pesticides

24. Pesticide Use

26. Mississippi Basin Drains 41% of continental United States.

29. Dead Zone: Gulf of Mexico 5,800 square miles

30. Non-point Source Pollution

31. Duwamish River

32. Duwamish Watershed Capitol Hill to Tukwila to West Seattle. 32 square miles. 3-5 billion gallons of stormwater/year. Sewage enters the river approximately 48 days each year. 250+ million gallons/year.

33. Superfund Site 5 mile stretch of the Duwamish River. Fish and crabs 7x more cancer causing chemicals. PCBs in nearly all salmon. River bottom exceeds safe standards for heavy metals by more than 400%.

34. Duwamish River

35. PCBs and phthalates PCBs: group of 200+ industrial chemicals used for insolating and plasticizing Banned in 1970s

37. Eastern Garbage Patch Miles long. One million pieces/square mile. 90% plastic trash. 1 million sea birds choked/ tangled each year. 10,000 seals, whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals.

38. Goals of the Puget Sound Partnership include 1.Control Invasive Species 2.Water Quantity 3.Increase recreational use.

39. Puget Sound Partnership Shared strategy for Puget Sound. Six goals. Where are we? Where do we need to be? How do we get there?