Stewardship Week is a week set aside annually to promote stewardship, or the conservation and the wise use of our natural resources, such as water, soil, forests and habitat.
It serves as a reminder that each individual has the ability to conserve our natural resources and improve our world.
Water is one of our most precious resources and we all live in a watershed.
There are 2,100 watersheds in the continental U.S.
Having available, clean water is important to everyone, whether it be for drinking water, recreation, irrigation, manufacturing, or habitat for wildlife.
Only 3 percent is fresh water.
The earth is considered to be pretty much a closed system, like a terrarium.
As a whole, it neither really gains nor loses water.
The water we have now is the same water that existed in the time of dinosaurs.
The water is constantly moving and changing form, from liquid to vapor and ice.