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River's Park Edge and its partners are pleased to offer all visitors a fun, educational challenge to locate ecological clues thoughout the park.
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Water
Water is the elixir of life. Every living thing depends on it – including you. Humans can survive only a few days without water, and about 60% of the human body is made of it. The water you drink becomes part of you.
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Here in Council Bluffs, most of our drinking water comes from the Missouri River.
What happens in and around the river affects water quality, which in turn affects our health and well-being. Learn more about your drinking water here.
Although water can transition between solid, liquid, and gas, it doesn’t leave the Earth. Instead, it continually moves through the water cycle – circulating through air, land, rivers, and living things.
This means that the water you drink today could have been sipped by a thirsty dinosaur millions of years ago!
Our world is woven together by watersheds. A watershed is an area of land that drains rain and snow melt into a lake, river, or other body of water. As water runs across the ground, it picks up soil, nutrients, trash, toxins, and biological agents and carries them into a local waterbody. How we care for the land directly affects the quality of our water. And, what happens here matters far beyond Council Bluffs. The Missouri River flows into the Mississippi River, which empties into the Gulf of America, also known as the Gulf of Mexico. A plastic bottle tossed on the ground here could be carried to the Gulf in as little as three weeks, showing how closely connected we all are through our watersheds.