Environmental Studies
Water Resources
Earth 911
Water Page
http://earth911.org/water
Water is essential for life and our ecosystems, but only a small fraction of the water on our surface is suitable for consumption. When this water is polluted or not conserved, the supply we have becomes that much more valuable. Proper disposal is key to water conservation because water is easily contaminated. One gallon of improperly disposed motor oil can contaminate one million gallons of fresh water.
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Groundwater Mapping Project
http://gwmap.rsgis.msu.edu/
USGS hydrologist Howard Reeves, and cooperators* in Michigan, just released an interactive website resulting from their newly completed project to inventory and map Michigan's ground-water resources. The resulting database shows ground-water aquifers and features, users of large quantities of groundwater, and other valuable ground-water information for Michigan. *Prepared in Cooperation with State of Michigan and the MSU Institute of Water Research.
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Water Page
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313---,00.html
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Water Use, Levels, and Diversion
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3677_3704---,00.html
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan State University
Institute of Water Research
http://www.iwr.msu.edu/
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan State University
Institute of Water Research
Michigan's Drinking Water
http://www.gem.msu.edu/index.html
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan State University
MSU-WATER (Watershed Action Through Education and Research)
http://www.msu-water.msu.edu/
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Michigan Surface Water Investigation Management System
http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/miswims/
This application is an interactive map-based system that allows users to view information about Michigan’s surface water. It was developed through a cooperative effort by the Michigan Department of Information Technology (DIT), Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Users are able to view and download data collected by the DEQ and DNR from surface water monitoring sites located throughout Michigan.
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Shared Oceans, Shared Futures
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0404/ijge/ijge0404.htm
Humankind has explored, mapped, developed, or settled all but the most hostile corners of Earth's landmass. But our understanding of the oceans —more than 70 percent of Earth's surface— remains highly limited. We know more about the contours of Mars than those of the oceans' floors.
Though we frolic on the oceans' shores, sail and swim their waters, draw food from their depths, and transport freight across their vast horizons, we know very little about life and conditions below the surface. Recent studies have highlighted the urgent need for more knowledge. Vast as they are, the oceans are not unassailable. They cannot endlessly absorb the wastes that human beings are dumping into their waters. The bounty of the sea, which has nurtured life on Earth for millennia, is not limitless.
Technological and financial resources devoted to research have not been adequate to accomplish all that scientists want to learn about our oceans, but attempts are being made in many quarters in the United States to address the situation. We examine many of them in this edition of Global Issues. The U.S. government's top policy maker in ocean-related programs provides an overview of the initiatives being taken to better understand and preserve the seas. A U.S. State Department official describes the many ways the United States works with the international community on matters relating to the oceans. We offer a preview of a comprehensive report about reshaping U.S. oceans policy. And a prominent U.S. oceanographer shares his sense of wonder and curiosity about all that we have yet to learn.
We hope that these and the other features in this electronic journal will inform readers as well as encourage them to learn more about the oceans and about how we can all work together to preserve this resource so vital to us all.
Global Issues : An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State, Volume 9, Number 1, April 2004.
(Last checked 02/21/08)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Water Page
http://www.epa.gov/water/
(Last checked 03/21/08)
U.S. Geological Service
Michigan Water Science Center
http://mi.water.usgs.gov/
U.S. Geological Service
Water Resources of the United States
http://water.usgs.gov/
(Last checked 03/21/08)
Water Resources Research Guide
http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1212
(Last checked 03/21/08)
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