Managing Semi-Arid Watersheds: Related Links on Managing Watersheds
Adopt-A-Watershed is a K-12 school-community learning experience, using a local watershed
as a living laboratory in which students engage in hands-on activities.
Center for Watershed Protection - provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations
around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the
nation’s most precious natural resources: our streams, lakes and
rivers.
Know Your Watershed - maps of watersheds and a variety of full-text guides about watershed
issues, includes a Watershed IQ Test, by Conservation Technology Information
Center.
Science in Your Watershed - by the U.S.G.S., the purpose of this site is to help you find scientific
information organized on a watershed basis.
Surf Your Watershed by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows searching by zip code or
state or other factors to identify particular watersheds. This site
offers a facility to create maps of particular watersheds.
Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database -
A project of the Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences to aid in the assessment
of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution.
Verde River
Basin Real-Time Surface Water Data - USGS now provides near real
time access to water flow data. This page covers the Verde River Basin,
with Beaver Creek about in the middle.
Water and Climate
Bibliography by Pacific Institute. A comprehensive database of
scientific literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources
worldwide. The current version contains 3600 entries.
Water Science for
Schools from the U.S. Geological Survey, including a great glossary
of water terms: