Water, Water -- Water Quest, Water Resources

Water Links

"Water Quotes [Quotations] and Facts." (From Johan's Site.)
(jperret.tripod.com/water.html)
Map Your Local Watershed! (Lesson Plan, Grades 4-12, by Eric Hadd, Georgia Middle School.)
(academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/lesson%20plans/map_local_watershed.htm)
American Rivers.org -- take a look at the nation's rivers.
(www.americanrivers.org/)
(See also: American Rivers.org's "Preventing 'Unnatural Disaster' Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina".
(www.americanrivers.org/2015/08/preventing-another-unnatural-disaster-ten-years-after-hurricane-katrina/)
U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources.
(www.usgs.gov/water/)
U.S. Geological Survey's "Upper Mississippi River System".
(www.umesc.usgs.gov/umesc_about/about_umrs.html)
Environmental Protection Agency's "Surf Your Watershed".
(Learn who takes care of your watershed by clicking on the map to find it.) (cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm)
"Know Your Watershed". (Environmental information at Purdue University.)
(www.ctic.purdue.edu/Know%20Your%20Watershed/)
US Watersheds Map. (Interactive Waterhsheds' Interactive Map linking watersheds to community-based restoration projects that were identified by the USDA forest service.)
(http://www.interactivewatersheds.net/uswtrmap.html)

Check out Peter Ward's Rare Earth. This book describes how bacteria survive in hot thermal vents, and links water in these vents to the evolution of life on earth. (www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387952896/qid=1140214895/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5835530-2951851?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)

Do bacteria live best in hot or cold water?: One seventh grader's science experiment suggests that ice may have more bacteria than toilet water -- it won a prize. (See: "Fast-food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water", February, 2006, ABC/Good Morning America; but I'd personally need to see what sort of meat and such surrounded the ice in the refrigerator and what sort of antiseptics were used in the other; in any case, it's generally thought that bacteria more dangerous to us is that which survives between room and body temperature.)

Learn about a watershed.: Learn about the Mississippi, and find out about Katrina's effects at American Rivers' and the U.S. Geological Survey's sites. Learn about other watershed projects around the nation at the Interactive Watersheds' links. Then map your own local watershed! Finally, investigate your watershed's ecosystem, and check it for signs of danger. (Eventually this page will link to kits that help evaluate/test water.)