COAST DAY, 2007 - ESSAY CONTEST

Deadline for Entries:  posted by September 22, 2007

Essay - "The Journey of a Drop of Water: Your Watershed Connection to the Coast"

You may know that water comes your way through rain or the plumbing in your house.  But where does it go after that?  Well, it travels through your watershed to the coast by a variety of ways such as groundwater, runoff, even discharges from your community wastewater treatment plant or your septic system.  Water is always recycled - it is a limited resource, one that often takes a different  journey each time it is recycled.

Tell us how a drop of water gets into your watershed, what it might see or do along the way, and where its journey ends.  To help you, we have included a number of websites (at the bottom of this page), but your first task should be to find out what a watershed is because that is a critical part of your life and all life around you.

RESOURCE WEBSITES