Building on Rivekeeper’s key educational efforts
February 7, 2025
Riverkeeper Team
Over the past five years Riverkeeper has led a program with the nonprofit Media Sanctuary to offer high school students paid participation and training through Riverkeeper’s Community Science program, which includes hands-on water testing on the Upper Hudson River.
For the first time, thanks to the support of the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Riverkeeper and the Media Sanctuary’s popular “Source to Estuary” summer course will be fully funded and college-accredited. The course traces the drinking water in Troy, NY from its source, the Tomhannock Reservoir, to its return to the Hudson River via the Rensselaer wastewater treatment plant. The course allows students to gain a deeper understanding of and connection to where their water comes from, where it goes, and what happens to it along the way, all through the lens of land use and conservation, Indigenous legacy and land relations, and drinking water advocacy and activism.
For the first time, thanks to the support of the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Riverkeeper and the Media Sanctuary’s popular “Source to Estuary” summer course will be fully funded and college-accredited. The course traces the drinking water in Troy, NY from its source, the Tomhannock Reservoir, to its return to the Hudson River via the Rensselaer wastewater treatment plant. The course allows students to gain a deeper understanding of and connection to where their water comes from, where it goes, and what happens to it along the way, all through the lens of land use and conservation, Indigenous legacy and land relations, and drinking water advocacy and activism.
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