Details are in this Watershed Event invitation, along with a map of the watershed for you to locate your home, and a list of our very generous sponsors of this event. We thank them for their support and hope you will, too.  Our members will have a Special Meeting to vote for three new Board Members, Gina Howden, Dick Jenks, and Ed Olson after the breakfast.

Please come, become a member or renew your membership so you can vote for our new board slate, enjoy a great morning on Lake Beulah, learn What’s so Special about the Mukwonago River Watershed? and what you can do to help sustain its outstanding quality.

We hope to see many of you there.

Water is on the cusp of being limited in a substantial way almost everywhere around the globe. We need to find sustainable solutions to global requirements for the water resources we have.  It will be Groundwater Awareness Week.  Shall we elevate our awareness and make whatever impact we can as individuals to others  about the critical importance of water to our planet?

Think about where your drinking water comes from this week. Municipal and private wells are used to tap the shallow and deep groundwater aquifers that flow beneath the earth’s surface. Nationally, a large proportion of the population obtains their water from groundwater sources. There is a connection between the surface waters you enjoy and the ground water many people drink.

It might be prudent to have annual checkups to ensure that your well and water system continues to provide problem-free service and the highest quality of water possible.

A Mukwonago River Watershed Plan in pdf form.

FACTS ABOUT WATER

A few facts on water compiled from the book and blog of Charles Fishman:

The United States uses 410 billion gallons of water a day, everything from filling morning coffee cups to irrigating crops and cooling nuclear plants.

In four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year.

At 1,300 gallons a day, the U.S. leads the world in per person water use.

Electrical production is the biggest water user in the U.S.; each American uses 250 gallons of water each day to generate electricity used at home.

One in four people in the world – 1.6 billion – must walk at least 1 kilometer each day to get water and carry it home.

The average American flushes the toilet five times a day, which comes to 5.7 billion gallons of clean drinking water down the toilet every day.

Americans spend almost as much each year buying bottled water ($21 billion) as they do maintaining the nation’s entire water system ($29 billion), even though bottled water is often just a refiltered version of municipal tap water.

300 tons of water are required to manufacture 1 ton of steel.