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.
Training Volunteer Water Quality Monitors Effectively (fact sheet/bulletin)
Fifth in a series of factsheet modules, this pieces reviews basic elements of successful training and provides some tips for improving volunteer monitoring training strategies.
USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program (Web site)
The NWQA Program collects and interprets data about water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat and aquatic life in more than 50 water basins and aquifers covering almost all 50 states.
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.
Urban Subwatershed Restoration (print materials)
The Center for Watershed Protection has an entire series of subwatershed restoration manuals that provide information on topics such as urban watershed restoration, retrofit practices, repair practices, pollution prevention practices and assessment of unified streams.
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.
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring- list serve (list serve)
This list is designed for people to post questions so that others who may have experience with a specific database issue can respond or offer input to help answer the question at hand.
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 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.