Indiana Water
Outreach Program
Goal
Our goal is to provide educational outreach activities that deal with educating Indiana citizens on water quality issues, and ways that they can protect Indiana's water resources. By working as a team, our outreach efforts should be improved, enhanced, and expanded.
The Purdue Pesticide Programs (PPP) office is joining with the Indiana Water Resources Research Center as major Outreach Cooperator. Purdue Pesticide Programs (PPP), a function of the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service (CES), has a unique, interdisciplinary purpose relative to pesticide issues. Its mission encompasses three broad areas: implementation of pesticide education outreach programs directed at pesticide user groups and the general public; coordination of pesticide research and pesticide impact assessment projects between Agricultural Experiment Station researchers and Cooperative Extension specialists; and transfer of regulatory information from EPA and the Office of the Indiana State Chemist to the regulated community and other interested parties.
The Purdue Pesticide Programs has been very active over the last few years in publishing a series of pesticide publications (approximately 100 different publications). These publications are written for professionals who work in government, universities, associations, and also for the general public who want to understand pesticide issues beyond the headlines.
