Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Need Clean Water? Invest in Nature
World Resources Institute
This post is the first installment of our blog series, Nature for Water. In this series, we'll explore the benefits, opportunities, and best practices of using natural infrastructure like forests to secure clean water. Securing clean water is becoming increasingly difficult in the United...Read more
Conflicting Reporting Systems May Hinder Companies' Water Risk Strategies
World Resources Institute
This blog analyzes how a lack of consistent definitions of water stress and scarcity can impede companies ability to properly measure water risks.Read more
Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?
World Resources Institute
Reducing the growing dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is a huge scientific, technical, economic, and political challenge. It's a conundrum that agricultural and environmental experts from across the United States deliberated at the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force meeting in Louisville,...Read more
Extreme Weather: a Mixed BAG for Dead Zones
World Resources Institute
This post analyzes the potential impact that extreme weather events of 2011-2012-a warm winter, even warmer summer, and a drought that covered nearly two-thirds of the continental United States- and the impacts that continued extreme weather patterns will have upon dead zones in waterways across...Read more
Protecting Waterways from a Deadly Problem
World Resources Institute
This article examines why nutrient pollution emerges as one of the greatest threats to water quality. Using examples such as in the Chesapeake Bay, where large schools of jellyfish scare away swimmers. In the Gulf of Mexico, a 3,000 square mile "dead zone"" threatens a multi-billion...Read more
A Better Way for the U.S. Government to Clean Our Water
World Resources Institute
This article analyzes how reverse auctions can help governments get the biggest bang for their buck when it comes to allocating money for conservation.Read more
Watersheds, Flooding and Pollution Education Resources
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Learning about the water in the watersheds can help develop respect, understanding, and appreciation for the symbiotic relationship that we have with watersheds. Some resources in this collection encourage educators to get students outside. Others provide real-world data, hands-on activities and...Read more
Water Cycle Education Resources
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The resources on this website can help users understand the interactions of the water cycle through models and empirical evidence based explanations. These resources provides real-time and historic data sources that track and measure the water in different parts of the water cycle; satellite images...Read more
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GlobalU.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSIDC offers hundreds of scientific data sets for research, focusing on the cryosphere and its interactions. Data are from satellites and field observations. The website also offers data analysis and imaging tools if you want to create a map projections.Read more
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