We recognize our local water utilities as excellent treatment facilities that convert highly variable source water to safe drinking water for all Quad Citizens. However, we forget that source water and drinking water are parts of a connected whole.

Maybe you can’t join Tom Sawyer on all his river adventures, but you can learn about this nature stuff and more with River Action.

Here’s a quiz question for you: What landscape architect, journalist, and conservationist designed parks that zigzag across North America from Milwaukee to Montreal, Boston to Baltimore, Seattle to Staten Island, and hundreds of points in between, and whose 200th birthday is in 2022? If you answered Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. you are correct.