Programs to protect freshwater habitats include planning, stewardship, education, and regulation….Solutions

25 ways to save water

1. Check your toilet for leaks.
2. Stop using your toilet as an ashtray or wastebasket.
3. Put a plastic bottle in your toilet tank.
4. Take shorter showers.
5. Install water-saving shower heads or flow restrictors.
6. Take baths.
7. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth.
8. Turn off the water while shaving.

Easy Things You Can Do To Protect Drinking Water Sources

1. Properly dispose of hazardous productsPut up signs.
2. Use and dispose of harmful materials properly.
3. Volunteer in your community.
4. Join in a beach, stream or wetland cleanup.
5. Prepare a presentation about your watershed for a school or civic organization.

1. Restrict the construction of dams.
2. Provide incentives for farming business to reduce the use of pesticides.
3. Establish protected wetlands areas.
4. Regulate water withdrawal for human use.

EPA works with states, tribes, local utilities, and many other stakeholders to implement programs that maintain drinking water quality.

Santiago: A new scientific study has reached the conclusion that the fresh water found in Puerto Williams town in southern Chile’s Magallanes region is the purest in the world, the University of Magallanes said.

11 of the Clearest Bodies of Water in the Entire World

• of 11. Cala Macarelleta in Spain.
• of 11. Linapacan Island in the Philippines.
• of 11. To Sua Ocean Trench in Samoa.
• of 11. Jenny Lake in Wyoming.
• of 11. Koh Phi Phi Don in Thailand.
• of 11. The Maldive Islands.
• of 11. Bodrum in Turkey.
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The Cleanest Lake in India – Kankaria Lake.

Blue Lake (below), in New Zealand’s South Island, is the clearest lake in the world. It is fed by water from Lake Constance, above.