Free EPA Watershed Academy Training Course

For those of you who haven't seen it, EPA offers a free Watershed Academy training course. "This Web site offers a variety of self-paced training modules that represent a basic and broad introduction to the watershed management field. The modules are organized by the six themes listed above. Modules vary in the time they to complete, from ½ hour to 2 hours." You can take the sessions on line or request a free CD (which is what I did). It's an honor based course where you can retake the self-test module tests if you need/want to. When you complete the 15 core modules, you can request a watershed training certificate. (Press releases about people completing the course would help raise awareness and spread the word.)

http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/

In addition to "Water Issues in Arkansas An Unfinished Story..." , the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation funded "Troubled Water", an AETN original sixty-minute documentary that traveled across the state to learn more about the potential for a water crisis in Arkansas.

http://www.aetn.org/production/programs/water

I sat next to a lady from this foundation at the LID workshop. They would be a good partner for water quality issue projects and it looks like a possible source of funding.