Where's Your Watershed? Not sure if you have one? Well, you may not be sure what it's called, but you can be sure you live in a watershed! We all live in a watershed—in fact, we live in small, local watersheds nested inside larger regional watersheds.To find out what watershed you live in in the United States, start by visiting the USGS site, Science in Your Watershed. This will show you your largest scale watershed. You can learn more about this watershed here. To learn more about your local watershed, you can explore regional or local resources, such as a Cooperative Extension or local water resource office._{Image credit: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/research/techtrans/projects/scienceforkids/watersheds.shtml} More on ColombiaThe Avellaneda family works hard to protect the land and water that supports them. Read more about the family here and then read more about other work being done to protect Colombia's resources. _{Image credit: © Erika Nortemann/The Nature Conservancy}Interested in learning more about Colombia? Check out the Rainforest Alliance's Species Profiles page to discover what other animals live there. Make sure to select South America in the dropdown filter at the top, then do your own research to see which animals make their home primarily in Colombia. Click here to explore other information about the geography and environment in Colombia.Protecting WaterYou learned in the video that the páramo in Colombia receives different amounts of rain throughout the year. Sometimes it rains a lot, other times not at all. So making sure there is available water all year is a challenge. The plants help by absorbing water from the atmosphere and by retaining water even after the rains stop. And the people help by protecting water at its source and by working together to make the water fund work. Read more about the benefits of water funds here.Think about where you live. Does it rain regularly throughout the year? Or do you sometimes have to worry about drought? What kinds of things does your community do to manage and protect water? Explore your water and how you can take care of water where you live:What You Can Do to Help (The Nature Conservancy) Where Does Your Water Come From? (EPA)Water Resources (USGS) Groundwater Watch (USGS)

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