Celebrating Water Week at Schaffer Library  

The United States uses about 346,000 million gallons of fresh water every day and uses nearly 80 percent of its water for irrigation and thermoelectric power.

Read a recent article "Resilient Design: Water in a Drought-Prone Era" - on improving water efficiency from BuildingGreen.com

See Water Fact of the Day Archive 

Events on campus - Full listing of campus events - stay tuned for library specific events too.

Swim for the River - Available to check out - watch this 2006 documentary narrated by Christopher Swain & Tom Weidlinger.

Water Week Contest - look for signs in lobby.

Thanks to all our winners from yesterday's contest - Prizes available for the latest.

A FANCY halts my feet at the way-side well.
It is not to drink, for they say the water is brackish.
It is not to tryst, for a heart at the mile's end beckons me on.
It is not to rest, for what feet could be weary when a heart at the mile's end keeps time with their tread?

It is not to muse for the heart at the mile's end is food for my being.
I will question the well for my secret by dropping a pebble into it.
Ah, it is dry.

Strike lightning to the road, my feet, for hearts are like wells.
You may not know they are dry 'til you question their depths.
Fancies clog the way to heaven, and saints miss their crown.....

Celebrate Black History Month and find more in Trouble the water: 250 years of African-American poetry. Available via ConnectNY

'Moon Water'; 'Bamboo Dream' from Lin Hwai-min: Floating on the Ground (58:31), performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Zurich Ballet & Lin, Hwai-min . Check out more from our Dance in Video resource.