Watersheds / US EPA
We all live in a watershed -- the area that drains to a common waterway, such as a stream, lake, estuary, wetland, aquifer, or even the ocean -- and our individual actions can directly affect it. Working together using a watershed approach will ... [... more]
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Water / EPA
We work to: ensure drinking water is safe; protect and restore oceans, watersheds, and other aquatic ecosystems; and provide healthy habitats for fish and wildlife, plants, and people. Beaches Biosolids Climate Change Drinking Water Fish ... [... more]
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EPA / Envirofacts
The Reporting Year 2007 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Electronic Facility Data Release (e-FDR) is now available. Envirofacts Data Warehouse Geospatial Data Download Customer Satisfaction to retrieve a sampling of information available pertaining ... [... more]
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Oceans, Coasts, & Estuaries
Factsheet: National Coastal Condition Report III (2008) / PDF Version (2 pp, 434K, About PDF) Comparing Scores by Indicator and Regions: NCCR I and NCCRII / PDF Version (1 pg, 49K, About PDF) Environmental Protection Agency's National Coastal ... [... more]
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New Section 319 Nonpoint Source Success Stories
Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution)Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds. [... more]
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Water Science and Technology for Kids
For students, Pre-K to fifth grades. For students, sixth to twelfth grades. For those who teach: teachers and parents. [... more]
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Welcome to The Water Sourcebooks
The Water Sourcebooks contain 324 activities for grades K-12 divided into four sections: K-2, 3-5, 5-8, and 9-12. Each section is divided into five chapters: Introduction to Water, Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment, Surface Water Resources, ... [... more]
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Nonpoint Source Pointers (Factsheets)
Pointer No. 1: Nonpoint Source Pollution: The Nation's Largest Water Quality Problem Pointer No. 2: Opportunities for Public Involvement in Nonpoint Source Control Pointer No. 5: Protecting Coastal Waters from Nonpoint Source Pollution Pointer ... [... more]
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Pointer No. 1
Why is there still water that's too dirty for swimming, fishing or drinking? Why are native species of plants and animals disappearing from many rivers, lakes, and coastal waters? The United States has made tremendous advances in the past 25 ... [... more]
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Pointer No. 10
The well-known stories about environmental problems tend to focus on big, recognizable targets such as smoking industrial facilities, leaking toxic waste dumps, and messy oil spills. As a result, people often forget about water pollution caused ... [... more]
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What you can do to prevent NPS pollution
The following documents describe different ways you can prevent nonpoint pollution in your home and community. [... more]
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Characteristics of Wetlands
In more common language, wetlands are areas where the frequent and prolonged presence of water at or near the soil surface drives the natural system meaning the kind of soils that form, the plants that grow, and the fish and/or wildlife ... [... more]
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