A resource compilation from Darcy Kind, WDNR Endangered Resources Program.  These are very useful places to go to start your restoration or prairie project.  Many of these can be found in our Tools for Land Restoration under Sites We Appreciate.

Mukwonago River is one of the watersheds with a plan.  Lots of great information for you who love to Know Your Watershed.

A Mukwonago River Watershed Plan in pdf form.

Charles Fishman,  a water revolution looming.

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.

Just in case we forget how important water is to Wisconsin. WDNR on waters held in the Public trust.  History of the doctrine and case law, Champions of the Public Trust.

A thoughtful treatise on the importance of protecting our water, forests and wildlife.  What’s at risk.