Detailed Festival Information:
The Missouri River Watershed Festival is a 2-state, 7-county, Metro KC regional event, sponsored by the MO River Watershed Festival Committee and the Little Blue River Watershed Coalition. The Missouri River Watershed Festival fosters awareness and elicits behavioral changes in youth regarding non-point source pollution (NPS) throughout the Metropolitan Kansas City region.
The Missouri River Watershed Festival goals are to:
- Educate participants about NPS pollution
- Emphasize behavior changes by demonstrating how an action in one part of the watershed can affect the entire region
- Demonstrate how critical thinking in system analysis can lead to effective problem solving and decision making
- Teach about widespread repercussions of individual actions and allow the participants to apply these concepts to many aspects of their daily lives
- Improve participants potential to become effective, critical thinking members of society who will pass these values on to peers and offspring; thereby, establishing a sustainable environmental ethic
The Missouri River Watershed Festival is a unique gathering of participants from 2 states and 7 counties and numerous cities. The event works hard to further the understanding that watersheds, pollution and stormwater management are regional issues and not limited by political boundaries.