Lake Tahoe Earth Week – Clean Water Wednesday

South Lake Tahoe, CA (April 21, 2021) – Lake Tahoe Earth Week’s daily challenges continue with Clean Water Wednesday. In Tahoe, we’re proud of our blue lake, and what better way to celebrate Earth Day than completing these three easy water-loving activities.

Drink Tahoe Tap - Lake Tahoe provides some of the finest drinking water in the world to your home, restaurant or business. Kick the bottled water habit and drink from the tap. Tap water is better than bottled water when it comes to people’s health, wallets and the environment. Plus, water in plastic bottles is trucked up, and every bottle left outside breaks into tiny toxic pieces. Those microplastics contaminate the environment in a process that scientists call ‘gross.’ The world’s best water is right at your fingertips. Go ahead, turn it on!

Your Dog, Your Doody - Tahoe is a dog’s paradise with endless trails and cool fresh water, but their waste is creating big problems with water clarity. Many towns in Lake Tahoe get their drinking water straight from the lake. As a responsible pet owner, be sure to pick up after our furry friends. Remember, if ‘They drop it, you drink it.’

Clean, Drain, Dry - Everyone loves spending time on Lake Tahoe. Some use water wings, life jackets, and rafts, and some are lucky enough to kayak, paddleboard or boat. Anything used in the water can provide a way for aquatic invasive species to hitch a ride and get into our lake. If these invaders get in, they can spread, become established and cause drastic and devastating changes. You can stop them if you clean, drain and dry your watercraft and gear every time. Go to takecaretahoe.org to take the Tahoe Keeper Quiz and complete the preserve a plant activity to learn how to keep these tiny critters out of our lake.

Join in on Tahoe’s Earth Week fun by visiting takecaretahoe.org/earthweek2021 and sharing your experience online using #earthweektahoe.

The Tahoe Earth Day Foundation, a non-profit organization, formed to educate the general public regarding the Lake Tahoe and Truckee region’s unique beauty and how to preserve and protect it. The means of providing such education include, but are not limited to, regional Earth Day festivals that include environmental and educational booths with focus areas on watershed health, forest health, water conservation, pollution prevention, alternative energy and waste management.