Right now, ONE Members across the country are making a big push to get clean water out to highly impoverished parts of the developing world by contacting their Senators and urging them to sign onto the Paul Simon Water for the World Act.

But in the late Senator Paul Simon’s home state of Illinois, people can get a chance to learn more about water around the world by visiting The Field Museum in Chicago.

At the Water exhibition, people can discover the importance of Earth’s most vital and fleeting resource and examine how living things adapt to extremes of wet and dry environments, and learn how human behavior alters precious aquatic ecosystems. Become inspired by conservation efforts from around the world and discover what you and your family can do to protect and conserve our planet’s water. Through hands-on activities, immersive dioramas, artifacts, and multi-media, this exhibition presents life’s essential element that unites us, surrounds us, and challenges us, now on display at The Field Museum.

So if you live in the Chicago area – or plan on visiting — don’t miss this chance to see Water at the Field Museum.

-Matthew Bartlett