What is water pollution and water quality?
What standards are used to measure water quality?
What categories of surface-water pollution are typically monitored?
What is acid mine drainage?
What are point and nonpoint sources of water pollution?
How can pollution from point and nonpoint sources be reduced?
What are the common sources of groundwater pollution and how is this problem being addressed?
How is wastewater treated?
Can wastewater be recycled and reused?
How is safe is drinking water?
What laws and legislation have been enacted to control water pollution and
safeguard water quality?
Ecolinks On The Web
- http://www.epa.gov/epahome/index.html - US - Environmental
Protection Agency (US EPA) home page.
- http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/monitoring/ - US EPA
water quality monitoring programs and procedures - are described
here.
- http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/STORET/ - US EPA's
STORET database - for water quality data. You may obtain water quality
data for streams and waterways throughout the United States through the
Retrieval Request menu. Follow the on-line directions and be very
specific in your request.
- http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS/npsie.html - Nonpoint Source News-Notes. - This is an online version of the Nonpoint
Source News-Notes, a publication sponsored by the US EPA.
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ottaway/home.htm - Drinking Water Help - home page contains questions and answers pertaining to
drinking water contamination.
- http://www.mwd.dst.ca.us/pa/docs/terms/glossary.htm - This is a
glossary of water-related terms -
- http://www.nando.net/nao/neuse/neuse.html - Sold Down the River. The Neuse River in North Carolina - has recently gained
the dubious recognition of being one of the ten most polluted rivers in the
nation. This is a series on the pollution of the Neuse River form the Raleigh NC
News and Observer
- http://www.api.org/resources/valdez/ - EXXON Oil
Spill Research. - Abstracts from research papers on the ecological status of
Prince William Sound since the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
- http://www.humnat.org/aws.htm - Flush with
Pride! - The story of the Arcata, California "constructed wetlands"
that are used to treat the City’s sewage as well as providing wildlife habitat
and salmon aquaculture facilities.
- http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/crypto/cryptos.htm - Cryptosporidium - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
fact sheet about Cryptosporidium.
- http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/dishonorable/ddrivers.html - - List of the 50 most polluted rivers in the United States.
