Curated Video
How to Rescue a Sinking Water Table
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison explains the different types of aquifers and the overall strategy for recharging depleted water tables.
Curated Video
AMERICA'S BIG MISTAKE: Watershed Democracy REJECTED!
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains how the USA missed the opportunity in 1878 to create political boundaries based on watershed boundaries, and discusses the multi-faceted implications of that super big mistake.
Curated Video
How to Save a Dying Village | Paani Fdn. India #1
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition and Farmer's Cup Competition. We tour the village of Pimpri Jalsen, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019...
Curated Video
Roadmap to Village Prosperity | Paani Fdn India #2
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition and Farmer's Cup Competition. We tour the village of Nandur Pathar, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2018...
Curated Video
Your Hand Maps the Land
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison demonstrates how your hand is a map of the basic pattern of landform found throughout most of the planet. He then explains how water travels from source to sink in a Permaculture designed landscape...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Quiz
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Science360
Testing the waters: 1,4-dioxane in North Carolinas Cape Fear River Basin
It was an email from a colleague that tipped off environmental engineer Detlef Knappe of possible 1,4-dioxane contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina's largest watershed and a source of drinking water for communities...
Science360
Testing the waters 1,4-dioxane in North Carolinas Cape Fear River Basin
It was an email from a colleague that tipped off environmental engineer Detlef Knappe of possible 1,4-dioxane contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina's largest watershed and a source of drinking water for communities...
Science360
Dead Trees & Dirty Water In The Rockies
The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...
US Department of Agriculture
Efforts To Improve A Great Lake's Water Quality
To help protect or improve the quality of water resources throughout the U.S. is just one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s missions. One of our Nation’s Great Lakes has been in trouble for years, and USDA efforts to expand...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Wastewater
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Pollution
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Running Water
In this video, we learn about running water and how it collects in bodies of water such as streams, rivers, and creeks. We explore the concept of surface runoff and how it eventually flows into these bodies of water, forming watersheds....
The Wall Street Journal
Water Security: Part II
U.S. farms, ever more productive, are draining water supplies and often fouling the nation's rivers. What can farmers do to improve water quality? And how is that objective balanced against the increasing demand for food?
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water as a Natural Resource - Conserve Water
In Water as a Natural Resource we are introduced to words such as habitat, ecosystem, watershed and estuary. Not only do kids learn that water exists everywhere on Earth, but that it is vital for life in plants, animals, and all other...
Science360
Want To Understand Drought? Follow The Water!
Already parts of the world suffer from lack of water, and with increasing demand it's expected to get worse. To better understand and predict drought, 30 universities are collaborating in a multidisciplinary effort called the Shale Hills...
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Floating Classroom: Introduction
These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this...
National Parks Service
Yellowstone National Park - Watersheds
Distance learning video about watersheds.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Looking For Life in Ancient Lakes
As the Perseverance Rover flies toward Jezero Crater on Mars, which once hosted water, astrobiologists are interested in places on Earth that are similar to the rover landing site.
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...
NASA
NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery
From the distant reaches of the Universe, to black holes, and the Martian surface, NASA explores some of the most far out parts of space. But NASA also does research much closer to home. In fact, NASA Earth Science satellites are taking...
NASA
NASA Tracks the Future of Asia's Glaciers
Asia's high mountains are a crucial freshwater source to one-seventh of the world's population. Snow and glaciers in these mountains contain the largest volume of freshwater outside of Earth's polar ice sheets, leading hydrologists to...
US Department of Agriculture
Environmental Credit Trading at Wildwood Farm, Virginia
This story takes you to Appomattox, Virginia where a farmer is using an innovative approach to keeping runoff out of the Chesapeake Bay.
By planting trees on retired cropland, the farmer is helping to filter pollutants from streams in...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Farmers Prevent Runoff And Erosion
An innovative USDA initiative along the Gulf of Mexico is helping farmers in Mississippi's coastal counties prevent sediment and nutrients from washing into nearby waterways that drain into the Gulf.