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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds works to protect our marine and fresh water ecosystems
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A  watershed  is an area of land that drains to a common body of water. Every watershed drains to a larger watershed that eventually flows to the ocean. Everyone lives in a watershed    even if you live in the desert or far from the coast.
Healthy communities depend on healthy watersheds
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88,000 square miles of estuaries and bays 41 million acres of lakes, ponds and reservoirs 107 million acres of wetlands 54,000 square miles of ocean and near coastal shoreline U.S. water resources 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams EPA ATTAINS Database, Assessed Waters of the U.S.,  October 2008
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“ I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines.  As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers. America is a great story, and there is a river on every page of it.” Charles Kuralt American Journalist
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Wetlands are the vital link between  land and water ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea ,[object Object]
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Oceans and coasts  sustain the world ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Leading sources of water pollution today ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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  Protects and restores watersheds ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],Protects and restores wetlands
[object Object],[object Object],Protects water quality and habitat in 28 estuaries under the National Estuary Program
 
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Protects and restores  oceans and coasts
Protects and restores habitat ,[object Object]
Reports on the  health of the nation’s waters ,[object Object],[object Object]
EPA’s ocean-going ship, the  OSV BOLD , reports on environmental conditions offshore
EPA works with landowners, watershed groups, state and local governments and others to develop cleanup plans that target priority problems within watershed boundaries
Not matter where you live, we all live in a  watershed.. … .and our actions have a direct impact on the health of local water resources.
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  • 1. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds works to protect our marine and fresh water ecosystems
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  • 3. A watershed is an area of land that drains to a common body of water. Every watershed drains to a larger watershed that eventually flows to the ocean. Everyone lives in a watershed  even if you live in the desert or far from the coast.
  • 4. Healthy communities depend on healthy watersheds
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  • 6. 88,000 square miles of estuaries and bays 41 million acres of lakes, ponds and reservoirs 107 million acres of wetlands 54,000 square miles of ocean and near coastal shoreline U.S. water resources 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams EPA ATTAINS Database, Assessed Waters of the U.S., October 2008
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  • 35. EPA works with landowners, watershed groups, state and local governments and others to develop cleanup plans that target priority problems within watershed boundaries
  • 36. Not matter where you live, we all live in a watershed.. … .and our actions have a direct impact on the health of local water resources.
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