Rick Nelson Special to The Citizen Why should you attend a gathering describing Owasco Lake’s water quality? Why should you even care about the status of that water quality? Well, if you consume public water, its source is Owasco Lake. The city of Auburn and the town of Owasco draw water from the lake to supply over 40,000 residents in Cayuga County. If you enjoy fishing, swimming, boating, waterskiing, tubing and other water sports, good water quality is essential. We should all be watershed aware — aware of the human activities taking place throughout the lake’s large 208-square-mile watershed, and whose byproducts eventually flow downstream into one lake. Be aware…