Education

Knowledge is power. We believe that every single person can make a difference in the world around them when they are provided with the necessary resources, whether it’s as personal as adding water conservation techniques to your everyday life or as large-scale as implementing green infrastructure to prevent pollution into the Charles.

To accomplish our goals, CRWA needs the help and support of those who live and work in the watershed. CRWA engages with the public about the Charles River and shares our expertise in river restoration through workshops, classroom visits, and online resources. CRWA offers training and outreach to a variety of different audiences including other water or environmental professionals, municipal employees, school children, students, and watershed residents.

We look forward to the chance to speak with residents in person! Read on for more information about having CRWA attend your local event or come to your school or youth group meeting.

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What can I do to help the Charles?

Volunteer

With more than half a dozen different volunteer opportunities, there are a variety of different ways you can offer your time and expertise to support a Clean Charles.

Practice water smart landscaping

Whether you live on a tiny lot in Cambridge or Boston or an expansive estate in the Upper Watershed, we have tips for what you can do to make your property a bit more water friendly.

plant a rain garden

For residents who want to take the next step in environmentally friendly lawn practices, we offer an easy to use guidebook to constructing a rain garden on your own property. Rain Gardens treat and/or infiltrate stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces to reduce the amount of pollution entering the river.

Reduce Impervious surfaces

Consider reducing the size of your own parking area or patio, or promote low impact development and minimizing impervious area on development projects in your community. Higher impervious cover across a watershed is directly proportional to poorer water quality.

drive less

You probably know that walking, biking, and taking public transportation are good for the air, but it makes a big difference for water quality too. Burning all those fossil fuels and wearing down all those tires add pollution to our waterways, not to mention all those the roads and parking lots constructed to support our car culture.

We’ll let you know when there is an opportunity for activism! (Hint: It’s usually as easy as sending an email or making a call at a critical time. Give us your address and we can send you local alerts too.)

give to crwa

More than half of our funding comes from individual donors, please consider making a one time or sustaining gift to CRWA today!

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