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The Water Science Photo Gallery

Water Use

Water Supply: Aqueducts
Livestock: Chicken farm happenings
Livestock: Cows cooling their heels
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?

Measuring Water

Stream gage on a bridge
Making a stream-discharge measurement from a bridge
Taking a water sample from a bridge
Sampling a small stream
A quick way to measure high water
Sampling a lake bottom
Automatic stream sampler to collect water samples
Shocking fish to collect biological samples
pH meter to measure acidity

The Water Around Us

An artesian well
Truck-based drill rig
The messy job of drilling a well
Groundwater flowing from a road cut
Groundwater seeping to the surface
Example of a watershed

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