World Water Monitoring DayBureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
October 18, 2004
Assistant Secretary of State John F. Turner (right) and EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt (left) join Washington, D.C.-area students in testing water samples from the Chesapeake Bay. Turner and Leavitt participated in the event to mark World Water Monitoring Day, an annual event that aims to raise awareness of how individual actions affect watersheds. In conjunction with this event, citizens from all 50 U.S. States and 40 countries around the globe monitored their local watersheds for one month and submitted the results to an international database. [State Department photo]
Assistant Secretary of State John F. Turner (right) and EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt (left) participate in an event to mark World Water Monitoring Day at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, MD. [State Department photo]
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