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Get to Know our Watersheds & Rivers
Water, water, everywhere... including the Internet! Learn about watersheds and rivers using "on-line" data sets.
  • Learn about the "watershed address" system
  • Research the "Overall Watershed Score" for U.S. watersheds
  • Learn why the the state of watersheds is being carefully monitored
  • Investigate "on-line" river stage and flow data for many stations within a region
  • Discover the relationship between precipitation, river stage, and river flow
  • What makes river flow "jumpy" in some places?
  • Compare the latest river conditions to data collected over many decades
  • What is the "hydrologic equation" anyway?
  • baseflow
  • bedrock
  • cross-sectional
  • designated use
  • discharge
  • evaporation
  • forecast
  • groundwater
  • hydrologic
  • hydrologic equation
  • hydrologist
  • indicators
  • mean
  • median
  • precipitation
  • runoff
  • soil water
  • stage
  • storage water
  • transpiration
  • velocity
  • volume
  • vulnerability
  • water cycle
  • water supply
  • water table
  • watershed
 
 
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