Many helpful resources from US Environmental Protection Agency on how we use water and how we can conserve it.

A service organization for 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington. Assists tribes in their role as natural resources co-managers. The commission provides direct services to tribes in biometrics, fish health and salmon management.

Cascade member communities serve more than 380,000 residents and 20,000 businesses. Water efficiency is a critical part of the water management strategy as Cascade makes the best use of existing water supplies before developing expensive, new sources.

Engineering 101 for Wastewater: Crisp, well explained overview of each step of the process; Includes humor, graphics and simple animation.

A clean and safe toilet ensures health, dignity and well-being, yet 40% of the world’s population does not have access to toilets. World Toilet Organization is a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide empowering individuals through education, training and building local marketplace opportunities to advocate for clean and safe sanitation facilities in their communities.

Learn about environmental monitoring data through King County's database.

Archive blog for Billy Frank Jr., the Chairman for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. He is known as the Martin Luther King of local treaty rights.

This beautiful animated 8-minute video cleverly uses ink and water to explain how water reaches our homes, where it goes when we flush it or drain it through our sinks and showers, and then how we clean it to put it back into the water cycle

Using biosolids as a fertilizer has numerous benefits to our environment. King County’s website outlines the process and explains the benefits. Loop Biosolids has helped King County become one of the nation’s first carbon neutral wastewater facilities.

Find 20 years worth of reports on ways to reduce or reuse energy, water and nutrient sources during wastewater processing, benefiting ratepayers and the environment.

Despite massive cuts in harvest, careful use of hatcheries and a huge financial investment in restoration during the past four decades, salmon continue to decline along with their habitat. This trend shows no signs of improvement. As the salmon disappear, so do tribal cultures and treaty rights.

An international observance and an opportunity to learn more about water related issues, be inspired to tell others and take action to make a difference.

Learn why voters created Metro and developed a regional wastewater treatment systems in the 1950s as a response to the wastewater flowing into Lake Washington and Puget Sound and many rivers and smaller lakes without enough treatment, fouling water and making a sullied mess of local beaches.

Learn what King County and Seattle are doing to control combined sewer overflows (CSOs), relief points in sewer systems that carry sewage and stormwater in the same pipe. When heavy rains fill the pipes, CSOs release sewage and stormwater into rivers, lakes, or Puget Sound. They prevent sewage backups into homes and businesses. But, they can harm people and animals living in the water because they carry chemicals and germs.

Find out about Singapore's “Four National Taps” or sources of water, including NewWater a way of turning wastewater into potable drinking water, and also harvesting 90% of the island Nation's rainwater. Impressive engineering and policy decisions.