Managing Semi-Arid Watersheds: Related Links on Managing Watersheds

• Adopt-A-Watershed is a K-12 school-community learning experience, using a local watershed as a living laboratory in which students engage in hands-on activities.
• Center for Watershed Protection - provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations
  around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the nation’s most precious natural resources: our streams, lakes and rivers.
• Designer Partnerships -- A Watershed Approach to Ecosystem Management by Barry Lewis, Science Writer, Environmental Associates, Academy of Natural Sciences, January, 1995.
• Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) Resources - lists sites about rivers, water quality, and a wide variety of water topics. Covers sites of interest to researchers and K-12 teachers.
• Know Your Watershed - maps of watersheds and a variety of full-text guides about watershed issues, includes a Watershed IQ Test, by Conservation Technology Information Center.
• Science in Your Watershed - by the U.S.G.S., the purpose of this site is to help you find scientific information organized on a watershed basis.
• Surf Your Watershed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows searching by zip code or state or other factors to identify particular watersheds. This site offers a facility to create maps of particular watersheds.
• Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned - from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds.
• Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database - A project of the Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences to aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution.
• Managing Watersheds to Improve Land and Water - good background and current policy on watershed management in the Southwest.
• Verde River Basin Real-Time Surface Water Data - USGS now provides near real time access to water flow data. This page covers the Verde River Basin, with Beaver Creek about in the middle.
• Verde River Watershed, includes maps of soils, wells, stream gauging information.
• Water and Climate Bibliography by Pacific Institute. A comprehensive database of scientific literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources worldwide. The current version contains 3600 entries.
• Water Science for Schools from the U.S. Geological Survey, including a great glossary of water terms:
  • Water-Science Glossary of Terms
• Watershed Management Council provides a newsletter, a calendar of relevant meetings and conferences, and a database of its full-text publications.
• WaterWiser - provides a Drip Calculator and conservation tips, maintained by the American Water Works Association.
• What is a Watershed -- a brief video on the web illustrates what a watershed is. If you can't access it, you may need to download a plug-in like Apple Quicktime to view it. Other videos: Everyone Impacts a Watershed and Potential Sources of Pollution.