http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2008/02/26/why-watersheds/ Northern California River Watch Activist's Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2008/02/26/why-watersheds/comment-page-1/#comment-6162 Eric Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:29:26 +0000 http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2008/02/26/why-watersheds/#comment-6162 It is true that only about half of adults know what a watershed is, but teaching them this is a roundabout way to encourage conservation attitudes and behavior. It is more effective for people like you to speak to the public in their language -- clean water, nature protection, pollution control -- then to try to teach them our language. We're simply too outnumbered for that approach to pay off. It is true that only about half of adults know what a watershed is, but teaching them this is a roundabout way to encourage conservation attitudes and behavior. It is more effective for people like you to speak to the public in their language — clean water, nature protection, pollution control — then to try to teach them our language. We’re simply too outnumbered for that approach to pay off.

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