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106. The Water FAQ

http://www.siouxlan.com/water/faq.html

Text based site answers frequently asked questions on water treatment, tastes and smells of drinking water.

ACTIVITY: What water is best for coffee?

107. Culligan of Canada

http://www.culligan.ca/

Water treatment information service. Defines information on filtration, softening and high purity.

ACTIVITY: Why do we often need to add H2O softeners? What kind of water comes from your faucet?

108. Commonwealth Biomonitoring

http://www.trader.com/users/5012/0614/water.htm

Here youíll find general information and definitions pertaining to the water quality of rivers and lakes throughout the world.

ACTIVITY: What is moss?

109. Hydroweb

http://etd.pnl.gov:2080/hydroweb.html

Award winning, comprehensive and searchable site which contains everything related to hydrology.

ACTIVITY: Why are hydrology and hydrogeology important fields in ecology? What are their functions?

110. Utah State Water Research Laboratory

http://publish.uwrl.usu.edu/

The research mission of the UWRL is to enhance and expand scientific understanding

and engineering technology for environmental and water resources management with a

special focus on problems affecting the State of Utah.

ACTIVITY: If you were a student at Utah State and a member of the UWRL, what type of research would you be doing?

111. Environmental Geochemistry and Environmental Mineralogy

http://www.mineral.tu-freiberg.de/index_en.html

This page is under construction and some is in German, but the university has an instructional mine.

ACTIVITIES:

a. What do mines and water have to do with each other?

b. If you were a researcher going into a mine, what would you be looking for and what would you fear the most?

112. Banaban Heritage Society

http://www.ion.com.au/~banaban

This site describes the ongoing struggle for Pacific Islanders to rehabitate their island after phosphate mining. Specifically, this site deals strictly with the preservation of and bettering the lives of the Banaban people of the pacific.

ACTIVITY: What obligation does society have to sustain and preserve the ways of indigenous people?

113. U.S. Geological Survey

http://h2o.usgs.gov/

This site is water - strictly water, from policy making to drinking water. Includes publications, programs and contact information on specific states.

ACTIVITY: As the population grows our fresh water supply shrinks. Using information from all the water sites, what will our fresh water options look like in the year 2000? What will happen if our fresh water supply diminishes?

114. WaterWiser Home Page

http://www.waterwiser.org/

A water efficiency clearinghouse, WaterWiser's mission is to be the preeminent resource for water efficiency and water conservation information.

ACTIVITY: Why is conserving water important even in states with high annual precipitation rates?

115. Michigan Department of Education

http://cdp.mde.state.mi.us/contentstandards/science/essays/13.html

This text-based sight is dedicated to understanding the hydrosphere.

ACTIVITY: Where is water found on earth and what are its characteristics?

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