WATER : The Essential Resource to Keep for Our Next Generation

PREFACE
CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Water Sciences
1. Water Sciences

Chapter 2. Water resources
1. Surface Water
2. Groundwater
3. Water amounts on Earth?
4. Water on and in the Earth
5. Locations of Earth’s water

Chapter 3. Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
1. Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
2. Drinking water

Chapter 4. Quality Control of Surface Water: lakes, rivers, and streams
1. Control of stormwater
2. Control of wastewater
3. Control of watersheds
4. Control of groundwater
5. Control of impaired waters

Chapter 5. The mighty Mississippi River Journey: From Source to the Gulf of Mexico
1. The mighty Mississippi River
2. The History of The Mississippi River
3. The Mississippi River journey

Chapter 6. Factors Affecting the Roles of Rivers
1. Flooding and floodplains
2. Meanders
3. Dams and levees
4. Deltas
5. Estuaries
6. Intertidal zone
7. Seepage and quicksand
8. Sinkhole and internal erosion

Chapter 7. Riparian Buffers and Their Restoration
1. Riparian management
2. Riparian Zone Estimation Tool (RipZET)
3. Riparian buffers as a green infrastructure (GI)
4. Riparian buffer restoration
5. Restoration practices