Environmental Water - L13.6

Environmental Water, from Aquatic Science STEM curriculum Lesson 13 (Water for People and Environment) that includes topics: What is the purpose of the Clean Water Act? What kind of water pollution is it intended to prevent? Why does the Act not stop all water pollution? What is watershed action planning? What should people where you live consider when conducting watershed action planning? In Texas, who “owns” surface water? Who “owns” groundwater? Since all water is connected, why do we have different systems of regulation? What is a “water right?” What are the impacts of prior allocation? What is “rule of capture?” What rights and responsibilities are associated with it? What are environmental flows? How are they obtained? What will influence your water supply for the future? .
Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Rosen is a professor in the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. His bio is here: texasaquaticsci...
Aquatic Science Lessons with Dr. Rudy Rosen is an on-line video curriculum arranged into 13 lessons in KZbin Playlists. Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. These short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching instruction or for self-education. A comprehensive teaching guide and enhancements can be downloaded FREE here: www.tpwd.state....
The teaching textbook is published by the Texas A&M University Press and can be obtained here: www.tamupress.c... or at Amazon here www.amazon.com/...
The instructional website is here: texasaquaticsci...
Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the National Science Foundation sponsored Research Coordination Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN-CE3SAR). Some materials were adapted from or provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation.