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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