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Create Your Own Groundwater Model (Web site)
The LVWS creates outreach programs that enhance the public’s understanding and support for the issues that water utilities face, such as conservation, pollution prevention, source water protection and watershed awareness. LVWS focuses its most of its programs on youth education.

"Broadening Participation in Biological Monitoring: Guidelines for Scientists and Managers (Web site)
Participatory inventory, participatory monitoring, participatory research, biodiversity, collaborative monitoring, multiparty monitoring, monitoring plan, forest managers, scientists

'Growth and Water Resources' Training Module (Web site)
Changes in land use are linked to impacts on water resources. This module illustrates how historical trends in growth patterns and activities on land have become the most significant challenge for preserving water quality and meeting future water resource goals.

25 Things You Can Do to Help Protect and Preserve the Illinois River and its Watershed (print materials)
25 things to help protect a wateshed

3rd National Conference on Nonpoint Source Pollution Information & Education Programs (CD)
Registrants from 16 states participated in this national conference to discuss far-reaching programs developed around the nation to educate the public about the complex issues of nonpoint source pollution.

A Farmer's Guide to Agriculture and Water Quality Issues (Web site)
Provides basic information, targeted at farmers, in these water quality areas: erosion and sediment control, nutrient management, pathogens, pesticides, wetlands and riparian protection.

Adopt-A-Stream curriculum on CD-ROM (CD)
Delta Labs has developed a water quality curriculum that combines age-appropriate scientific information with field activities. Adopt-A-Stream: The Water detectives is for elementary students; Adopt-A-Stream: Technology and Environmental Impacts if for middle school students; and Adopt-A-Stream: Environmental Integrity is for high school students.

After the Rain: Urban Runoff (video)
Explores the importance of water, the pressures our cities are placing on this precious resource, and ways that individuals can protect local drinking water supplies. The video should prove useful to anyone who is concerned about drinking water safety and improving the natural world around us.

American Geological Institute Environmental Awareness Series (Web site)
Titles in the Series are Sustaining Our Soils and Society, Metal Mining and the Environment, and Living with Karst-A Fragile Foundation.

Arsenic in Your Drinking Water (print materials)
This piece provides “Just the Facts for Consumers“ on arsenic in your drinking water.

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