Watershed Management Project to Protect Great Lakes

The Nature Conservancy and Method Products entered a partnership with the goal of protecting water in the Great Lakes watershed and improve water quality throughout the area with a program that offers incentives to farmers to increase groundwater recharge.

The Nature Conservancy's programs help ensure clean freshwater systems across Michigan and the Great Lakes. Through this water recharge program, Method Product's goal is to replenish groundwater in equal amounts to the water used in its factory, targeting 30 million gallons of groundwater recharge over five years.

In addition to the groundwater recharge project, Method is working to protect the water in the Great Lakes by installing bioswales in its manufacturing facility where storm water is captured and filtered back into the ground rather than burdening the city's storm water system. Method's manufacturing facility is scheduled to open in early 2015.

Source: Method Products PBC