Form a regional team to determine water education needs and coordinate team outreach efforts through a variety of techniques:
Use multiple methods to introduce specific concepts. Repeat concepts throughout the education experience Continue reading →
Rely on these outreach components for a conservation initiative (Dietz, 2004 Symposium):
Tailor materials to details of the farm operation.
Facilitate farmers developing their own water quality management plans. Emphasize, peer information exchange in farm quality planning. Continue reading →
Identify specific locally-defined problems related to water conservation. These may not be what an expert would typically expect due to unique cultural or situational needs. Continue reading →
Carry out education outreach initiatives through community-based organizations that already have a relationship with the target audience. Continue reading →
With Latino youth programs, use place-based pedagogies so that the education of citizens might have direct bearing on the well-being of the social and ecological places people actually inhabit.
Conduct voluntary and confidential assessments on individual farms, in cooperation with groundwater technicians. Develop an “Improvement Action Plan” for individual farms. Continue reading →
Use water education activities to provide “situated problem-solving” practice that can translate to workforce skills. Continue reading →
