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Water Topics
Information organized by water and other environmental topics.
Acid Rain
- Environmental
Effects of Acid Rain
Clean Air Markets Division
Scientists have discovered that air pollution from the burning of fossil
fuels is the major cause of acid rain. Acidic deposition, or acid rain
as it is commonly known, occurs when emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2)
and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) react in the atmosphere with water, oxygen,
and oxidants to form various acidic compounds. This site discusses the
sources and effects.
- Air Pollution and
Water Quality (Major site update August 2001)
Over the past 30 years, scientists have collected a large amount of
convincing information demonstrating that air pollutants can be deposited
on land and water, sometimes at great distances from their original
sources, and can be an important contributor to declining water quality.
This site discusses how air pollutants can have undesirable health and
environmental impacts, such as contaminated fish, harmful algal blooms,
and unsafe drinking water.
- Region
1, New England
Site includes general information about acid rain in New England including
its effects, history, and causes, information about acid rain's effect
on surface waters, forests, automotive coatings, materials, visibility,
human health, and a link to the Plain English Guide To The Clean Air
Act.
Beaches
Birds
- EPA and Bird Conservation
Although wildlife management is not a central part of EPA's mission,
numerous Agency programs and initiatives support and complement efforts
to conserve fish and wildlife and their habitats.
- Birds: Bellwethers
of Watershed Health
A Watershed Academy training module that details how Birds indicate
the health of a watershed. Includes text, photos, and charts.
- Partners In Flight
Find out about this common sense approach to the conservation of birds
and their habitats on a landscape level.
Coast
- Coastal Watersheds
A group of factsheets that discusses different kinds of coastal watersheds
such as near water and coral reefs.
Conservation
- Cleaner Water Through
Conservation
The benefits of water efficiency and why it should be important to us.
Coral Reefs
- Coral Reef Protection
The coral community is really a system that includes a collection of
biological communities, representing one of the most diverse ecosystems
in the world. For this reason, coral reefs often are referred to as
the "rainforests of the oceans."
Cruise Ships
Drinking Water
Farms
- Agriculture Center
The National Agriculture Compliance Assistance Center (Ag Center) provides
comprehensive, easy-to-understand information about compliance approaches
that are both environmentally protective and agriculturally sound. Contains
major laws and programs
that could affect farmers.
- Managing
Nonpoint Source Pollution from Agriculture
A fact sheet about Nonpoint Source Pollution that focuses on farming.
- Fertilizer Storage
and Handling Practices on the Farm
This hypertext-based program gives a general overview of fertilizer
handling and storage, and features a risk assessment section, and recommendations
for correcting fertilizer storage problems.
Fish
- EPA and Anglers
EPA wants to provide anglers with information on the condition of our
nation's waters, activities that anglers and their families can undertake
to improve the health of our valued fisheries, and information on EPA's
role in protecting recreational fisheries.
- Fish and Wildlife
Consumption Adviseries
The states and the four U.S. Territories and Native American tribes
have primary responsibility for protecting their residents from the
health risks of consuming contaminated noncommercially caught fish and
wildlife.
- Brochure: Should I Eat the Fish I Catch? (A guide to healthy eating
of the fish you catch.)
This brochure is intended as a guide to help you select and prepare
fish that are low in chemical pollutants. Note: This is a 4-fold document
that can be viewed in its entirety on-line but must be printed on legal
size (8 1/2" X 14") paper.
- English version
(PDF format, 161KB);
- Spanish version
(PDF format, 131KB);
- Hmong version
(PDF format, 145KB)
Newsletters and Periodicals
- Office of Water Newsletters
and Periodicals
The Office of Water publishes several periodicals that cover a variety
of water topics from Coastlines, a newsletter with information about
estuaries and near coastal waters, to Watershed Events, a newsletter
intended to update interested parties on the development and use of
watershed protection approaches.
Plastic Pellets
- Plastic
Pellets in the Aquatic Environment: Sources and Recommendations
An EPA publication discussing the impacts plastic pellets have on the
environment, identification of these sources of pellets, and recommendations
on how to control the release of them.
Rivers
- American Heritage Rivers
- Ecological Restoration:
A Tool To Manage Stream Quality
This document proposes restoration as an everyday management tool for
streams whose chemical, physical, and biological habitats have been
impaired, a focus that fills the conceptual gap between preservation
and remediation.
Shellfish
- EPA Shellfish
Protection
The U.S. EPA leads or participates in a comprehensive set of programs
and activities that help protect waters that support shellfish. This
website is designed to locate this information by providing a list of
selected EPA websites.
Software
- Environmental Awareness
Download free interactive software on environmental topics from this
site.
Spanish sites in EPA, OW, and partners
Water Quality
Wetlands
- America's
Wetlands: Our Vital Link Between Land and Water
- Types of Wetlands
This site describes the different types of wetlands and the plants and
animals that can be found there. The site includes photos and easy to
read text.
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