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Training Modules and Workships: Various Restoration Topics (PowerPoint presentation)
The Alliance translates technical or complex information on watershed issues into easy-to-understand PowerPoint presentations and guidebooks for lay audiences. These products range from “do-it-yourself” guides to publications that provide general advice and direction in working with professionals from various fields of expertise.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Web site)
This Web site provides access to an infinite about of information on water, the natural sciences and water education opportunities.

Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring (Web site)
More than 30 water enthusiasts in 15 Utah counties have offered a few hours of their leisure time to monitor the health of the state's lakes and reservoirs.

Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring National Facilitation Project Factsheets (fact sheet/bulletin)
This link connects you with two new factsheets, one for volunteer management and support of water monitoring and one for considerations for planning your program's data management system.

Water Down the Drain (CD)
Irresistible Alex, a sixfoot hip-hopping frog, introduces the causes of non-point runoff pollution in urban settings. Six modules introduce a watershed landscape perspective and provide information about the impacts of impervious surfaces and pollution problems and solutions common to residential lots.

Water Footprint (Web site)
Basis for the water footprint concept and methodology laid by prof Hoekstra at UNESCO-IHE and further developed at the Univ of Twente, the Netherlands. The concept and methods have been firmly established in scientific literature. Thousands of individuals have expressed interest in further developing and/or applying the water footprint methodology.

Water Quality Education Materials: Nonpoint Source Pollution Tool (print materials)
Water Quality Education Materials help educate the general public about what nonpoint pollution is, why it is a problem, and what specific actions people can do about it. Activities shown in the education materials include: * Stormwater runoff from cars. * Pet waste. * Car washing. * Fertilizer/pesticide use.

Water Web Consortium (Web site)
Built on the premise of improving communications and information access to help address the world's water problems.

Water: The Essential Resource (poster)
This poster features a photo and explanation of the hydrolic cycle, along with instructions for both adults and youth to activily learn about home waster water.

Waters to the Sea: The Chattahoochee River (CD)
This interactive multimedia educational tool (CD-ROM) for grades 4-8 provides an in depth multidisciplinary learning experience focusing on the environmental history of Georgia's greatest waterway, the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers. A companion Study and Activity Guide (available for download) provides classroom activities and connections to science and social studies standards.