The Summer 2017 California Project WET Gazette is “live” on the Water Education Foundation website. 

Water is flowing forth from the Sierra Nevada, as a record setting snowpack begins to melt into a record setting flow of liquid propelled downhill by gravity. How to better capture, store and release more of this water from abundant storm years has been a big topic of discussion among California water managers and water user groups over our past decade of multi-year droughts, punctuated by a great deluge of precipitation in a single water year. 

The summer edition of the Gazette focuses on includes the activities ‘Capture, Store and Release,’ which has students simulating how natural systems like wetlands, meadows, floodplains and riparian areas act like sponges to capture, store and release water; ‘Color Me a Watershed,’ which explores the relationship between water retention and water yield as the result of different land uses and management practices; and ‘Snow and Tell,’ which investigates variables that influence the rate of snowpack melt.

In addition, the newsletter lists upcoming Project WET workshops and special workshops and events for the summer and fall.

The newsletter is a quarterly publication written by California Project WET Coordinator Brian Brown.

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is an award-winning, water education program and publisher. It promotes awareness, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through classroom-ready teaching aids. The Water Education Foundation is the California Coordinator for Project WET.

Click here to read the Summer 2017 edition of the California Project WET Gazette.