It is imperative that climate change be included in the K-12 Environmental Literacy Strategic Plan. Omission of the subject is an egregious error.

We are already seeing the effects of climate change on our limited precious groundwater resources in western Loudoun County. Finding water is becoming ever harder each year. We are finding less and less groundwater recharge, caused, in part, by climate change. Especially with the two-year drought we are currently experiencing, wells, ponds and spring are going dry, something that has never happened for decades.

David Ward, Hydrogeologist, Retired