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Watershed protection drive launched
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Posted on Mar 09 2001
The Division of Environmental Quality is launching a campaign to help the CNMI public and private sectors learn about environmental maintenance on a watershed basis.
Watersheds are land areas divided by natural or man-made streams that form drainage basins. DEQ is starting in Garapan, which is in one of the 11 watersheds on Saipan.
DEQ said approaching environment concerns on a watershed level makes sense since people will learn about restoring and protecting the immediate areas in which they live, work, and play.
DEQ is reaching out to the community on multiple levels: the businesses, schools, private residences, and other governmental agencies.
Activities for all of these groups, which will demonstrate ways in which people can keep our fresh water supply and marine waters as clean as possible, have been scheduled.
DEQ also invites hotels and businesses to a workshop on April 18 conducted by the Watershed Group and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Office.
“We’ll also hand out questionnaires that test your environmental IQ and ask you to tell us what your particular environmental concerns are,” said DEQ.
The schools will engage in fun exercises such as skits on a clean watershed.
