Saturday, August 24 @ 10:30am
Join Imagine Water Works, Recharge NOLA, and ISeeChange for a watery event! Learn about rainwater monitoring and harvesting and how community efforts can improve our relationship with water. Stop by and you could win a Recharge NOLA rain barrel or an ISeeChange rain gauge! Leave with a book or two from the Little Library of Water! And take advantage of this month’s “late fee amnesty” while you’re at the library, too. Triple win.
Come “check out” the new Recharge Mobile Unit from Recharge NOLA! This outdoor education station on wheels features informational boards on the water cycle, our watershed, green infrastructure, and details the basics on how to build and install a rain barrel. Recharge NOLA strives to promote citywide rainwater harvesting through self-sustaining social enterprise networks that act to strengthen neighborhood ties, increase community capacity, and inspire civic and ecological responsibility.
ISeeChange will be available to teach us how our stories and data can help the city monitor, measure, and better adapt to increasingly intense rainstorms and local flooding. Attendees can register and will receive free rain gauges to record the designed storm events and water heights in their neighborhoods. The ISeeChange team will demonstrate how the data we collect can provide additional situational awareness during storms, but can also help inform where to focus stormwater mitigation efforts.
All ages welcome – children under 10 years must be accompanied by an adult.
This program is part of the Little Library of Water Program Series developed by New Orleans Public Library and Imagine Water Works and made possible by support from Waggonner & Ball, The Nature Generation, and Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.
Read more about the Little Library of Water here.
Have a book or author to recommend? We’ll add it to the installation.
Submit your ideas via our (really quick!) form here.
NOTE: We are specifically looking for books, poems, and other materials that are written by BIPOC writers, researchers, and artists.