Wholly H2O offers educational activities that inspire environmental stewardship by forging personal connections with local watersheds.

Our educational programs are tailored to enliven curiosity, knowledge, and yes, even stewardship for California watersheds. We engage people directly in community science, watershed tours, and art. These full-bodied activities grow connections to watersheds that influence peoples’ choices and outcomes.

Take a Tour

Take a walk through your waterhood (watershed + neighborhood), learn about your community’s human history, and meet the natural world right outside of your door.

Watch a Livestream

Join our Walking Waterhoods livestreams and learn from local naturalists and historians guides in virtual tours in East Bay watersheds.

Be a Naturalist

Discover the plants and animals living in your waterhood and help scientists track species over time and space. It’s fun!

Listen to a Podcast

What do you really know about water, the molecule and the substance? Tune into the H2whOa! podcast and explore the big questions with leading scientists and artists.

What is a WaterHood?

When considering watersheds, many think solely of how water moves through a geography, specifically a drainage basin, as in the picture above. Water is captured between highpoints and falls down over the surface creating creeks and rivers, or through the ground as groundwater. But there’s so much more to what makes a watershed functional and thriving (or not). Flora (plants) and fauna (animals) that live there hugely impacts how the . It is not solely water + land but water + land + living ecosystem. More casually, we’re calling them watershed neighborhoods.

Watershed + Neighborhood = WATERHOOD

Wholly H2O encourages California residents to become engaged members of their waterhoods and active stewards of watershed ecosystems. We foster responsible, community-minded watershed management by nurturing the connections people make with their local watersheds both intellectually and emotionally. To know it is to love it. Our educational programs strive to make watershed conservation accessible and fun for all ages.

Upcoming Events

Interested in being active in WhollyH2O’s upcoming events? Click here to sign up and volunteer! We can’t wait to see you in our community!

Help Us Out!

Don’t have time to volunteer but want to contribute to our cause? Donate to Wholly H2O!

Interested in Benefitting from a Wholly H2O intern or volunteer position? See current opportunities here.