Your Watershed Moment
One Small Choice Can Help Protect Our Water and the Places We Share
The White River connects our neighborhoods, parks, streets, yards, and communities. What happens on the land often ends up in our water.
That means everyday choices can either help or hurt the waterways that support the places we live, work, and play.
You do not have to change everything. Start with one clear choice.
What Happens Here Flows Downstream
When rain falls, it runs across lawns, sidewalks, driveways, streets, and parking lots. Along the way, it can pick up fertilizer, litter, oil, soil, pet waste, and other pollutants before flowing into storm drains, creeks, rivers, and reservoirs.
Small actions close to home can reduce what washes away.
Simple Choices That Make a Difference
Pick the action pledge that fits your life.
- Help keep extra nutrients out of streams, rivers, and reservoirs.
- Use less fertilizer. Lawn Fertilizer – It Grows Algae Too
- Keep bacteria and pollution from washing into storm drains and waterways.
- Pick up pet waste. Pet Poo – It All Piles Up
- Help rain soak into the ground and reduce runoff.
- Plant native trees, flowers, or grasses. Native Plants & Pollinators – Roots are All the Buzz
- Keep leaves, litter, and debris from flowing directly into local water.
- Keep storm drains clear. Adopt a Storm Drain – Only Rain Down the Drain
- Protect neighborhoods, parks, streets, and waterways.
- Stop litter before it spreads. Litter & Plastics – Show a Little Love
Your Choice Counts
Taking a pledge is more than a promise. It is one practical action that joins thousands of others across Indiana.
Your action may feel small. But when neighbors, families, schools, businesses, and communities each take one step, the impact grows.
This is Your Watershed Moment
The White River is part of daily life in Central Indiana, even for people who do not see it every day. It provides the water we drink, powers our economy, and connects our communities. It connects our neighborhoods, parks, communities, and future.
Protecting it does not require a big speech or a complicated plan.
It starts with one clear choice. Take action, take a pledge, make a difference!
Your Watershed Moment
Purpose
The White River watershed supports millions of Hoosiers, thousands of businesses, critical infrastructure, and some of Indiana’s fastest-growing communities. The decisions we make about land, water, and growth today will shape our economy, neighborhoods, and quality of life for generations.
Clear Choices Clean Water Program
Clear Choices Clean Water is designed to increase awareness about the choices we make and the impacts they have on our streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. After all, this is our drinking water, the water we play in, and a vital part of nature’s ecosystems. Water-friendly practices help to protect our precious water resources. By educating individuals on these actions and giving them the tools needed to make behavior changes, Clear Choices Clean Water empowers everyone to do their part for water quality and conservation.
Our mission is to inspire widespread behavior change that reduces water pollution and protects water supplies.
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