National Groundwater Awareness Week
A vital resource, groundwater is a hidden treasure beneath our feet. Its protection is crucial for our future and the planet's.
Position your organization as a steward of critical water infrastructure and sustainability by highlighting groundwater conservation commitments during this awareness week.
- Infographic: 99% of Earth's usable water is groundwater—how does your business protect it?
- Behind-the-scenes: How municipalities and farms depend on aquifer health (6,000-year refill timelines)
- Sustainability pledge: Join the groundwater protection movement with your company's water conservation goals
- Expert interview: Groundwater scientists explain subsurface movement and quality factors affecting your region
Groundwater takes up 99 percent of the Earth’s usable water, accounting for many of the U.S. municipalities, drinking supply, and agricultural irrigation. As the world’s most extracted raw material, many homes and businesses rely on groundwater for everyday use.
National Groundwater Awareness Week, founded by the National Groundwater Association, aim to help raise awareness of the importance of groundwater. The holiday also aims to help fund research to understand how groundwater moves through the subsurface and what factors affect the quantity and quality of that groundwater.
An example, given by the National Groundwater Association, talks about how the largest U.S aquifer, which underlies 250,000 square miles, could take up to 6000 years to refill if it ever ran dry.
National Groundwater Awareness Week is about taking into account research and statistics when it comes to groundwater and informing people about how important groundwater is to countries all over the world. National Groundwater Awareness Week aims to help people learn of new ways to support the ecosystems that thrive off of groundwater.
As an essential drinking supply, groundwater maintains the earth society lives on and if depleted, can lead to devastating consequences. That’s why during this week, scientists and activists get together through seminars and social media to teach people better ways to take care of the world they live in.