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Safe Water: Environmentalists Tout Importance of Groundwater

Maryland officials celebrate Groundwater Awareness Week.

 

A number of Maryland environmental officials met at Sandy Point State Park today in honor of Groundwater Awareness Week. Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Robert M. Summers, along with representatives from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Maryland Environmental Service, discussed the importance of maintaining local and state wells, as well as septic systems. Groundwater has a significant impact on the health of the state's drinking water, the Chesapeake Bay, and the local economy. Officials urged Maryland residents to help keep it clean.

Related Topics: Chesapeake Bay, groundwater awareness week, and maryland

Buck Harmon

8:58 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013

This video give a good perspective of the looming water crisis..
http://survivewatercrisis.com/index-27-cb.php?v=y

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Buck Harmon

10:46 am on Monday, March 18, 2013

Carroll County in particular should be concerned about water quality because of the massive use of petro chemical pesticides, herbicide and GMO production that takes place in the government supported and controlled farming industry.
Fresh ground water is very vulnerable because of these state of the art profit generator's for big chemical companies like Monsanto...

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