Water pictures: Water Science Picture Gallery

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The Water Science Picture Gallery

What is a Web site without pictures? Where scientific issues like water are involved, a picture can really help explain something. For instance, I could tell you that it can be a shocking experience collecting fish samples, but doesn't it help to see it?

Water Use

Water Supply: Aqueducts
Livestock: Chicken farm happenings
Livestock: Cows cooling their heels
Irrigation: Measuring how long a pump runs
Irrigation: Furrow irrigation
Irrigation: Drip irrigation
Irrigation: Low-energy irrigation
Irrigation: Traditional spray irrigation
Hydroelectric: World's biggest hydroelectric facility
Hydroelectric: Generators in a hydroelectric plant
Thermoelectric: Thermoelectric power plant
Multiple uses:Recreational use of a lake

Humans' Influence on the Water System

A storm sewer to carry off stormwater
Silt fences (good and bad) at construction sites
Sediment pond to catch storm runoff
Land subsidence can be caused by overpumping
Why is this house wearing stilts?

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The Water Science Picture Gallery

Water Use

Humans' Influence on the Water System

Measuring Water

The Water Around Us