04/27/2021
The Water Players,
Usually not noticed by many & hardly ever given credit.
We all know how important water is - did you know the brain and heart are composed of 73% water??
Safe to say, keeping our water healthy, clean and thriving is a priority.
The water players include the aquatic plants, aquatic animals & bacteria, streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes and rain
Wetlands control flooding and unite water and land - all while acting as a filtration system for the land and controlling pollution.
Lake ecosystems are the homes for many animals like frogs, snails, worms, turtles, marsh birds, beavers, snakes and many insects.
There is so much to be learned about the water players and how they navigate your land on which real food grows/produced.
For now we leave you with this one fact: There is the same amount of water on Earth today as there was when dinosaurs roamed this planet. Less than 1% of that water is available to meet the daily drinking water, sanitation and food needs of nearly 7 Billion people and millions of other species (National Geographic, 2021)
We are lucky to be surrounded by fresh water sources in Thunder Bay - so let’s start having a better relationship with it.