Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Webinar on "Living Shorelines - Types, Tools and Techniques"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This webcast will introduce living shoreline projects and explain the values of such projects and their implementation methodologies. Important points to be covered include: site selection criteria, appropriate techniques for differing energy regimes, innovative practices, and implementation tools.Read more
Webinar on "Wetlands Supplement: Integrating Wetlands Into Watershed Planning"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Wetlands are the crucial link between the land and water and play an integral role in the healthy functioning of watersheds. The Supplement promotes using a watershed approach that protects existing freshwater wetlands and maximizes opportunities to use restored, enhanced, and created freshwater...Read more
Webinar on "How Can We Build the Capacity and Effectiveness of Watershed Groups"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This webcast will feature an exchange of ideas on supporting local stakeholder efforts to protect and restore watersheds. Panelists will discuss how the U.S. EPA and other organizations are addressing the needs of watershed groups by providing technical tools and support to the local level and what...Read more
Webinar on "Tools for Protecting Coastal Wetlands"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This webcast will provide information on several tools that can help address impacts on coastal wetland ecosystems from immediate impacts (development) to long-term (sea level rise) in order to help improve decision-making and provide readily accessible information to practitioners.Read more
Webinar on "Eight Tools for Watershed Protection in Developing Areas"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This webcast will highlight effective tools communities can apply to minimize the impact of land development on their streams, lakes and estuaries. It will begin by showing how impervious cover (IC) is used as a key index of watershed development. Next, current research will be reviewed on the...Read more
Assessing the Economic & Environmental Benefits of Industrial Water Use Productivity and Efficiency in the Great Lakes Region
The Alliance for Water Productivity and Efficiency, with funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, assessed five representative industries within the Great Lakes watershed that are supplied with treated drinking water and that discharge to a local wastewater utility. The assessments that were...Read more
Assessing the Economic & Environmental Benefits of Industrial WUE in the Great Lakes Region
Published:
February 1, 2013Alliance for Water Efficiency
The Alliance for Water Efficiency, with funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, assessed five representative industries within the Great Lakes watershed that are supplied with treated drinking water and that discharge to a local wastewater utility. The assessments that were conducted focused...Read more
Assessing the Economic & Environmental Benefits of Industrial WUE in the Great Lakes Region
Published:
February 1, 2013Alliance for Water Efficiency
The Alliance for Water Efficiency, with funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, assessed five representative industries within the Great Lakes watershed that are supplied with treated drinking water and that discharge to a local wastewater utility. The assessments that were conducted focused...Read more
Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction
Published:
January 1, 1970National Groundwater Association
This 20-minute DVD demonstrates the interaction between groundwater and surface water through a video demonstration.Read more
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