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 Watch the full show online! Visit the Explore More Water Quality video page...
People, homes,
industries, wildlife, recreation, and transportation all depend
on clean sources of water. Everyone uses it, needs it, and many
of us take it for granted. It doesn't matter where we live, in a
city or on a farm, we make a difference in water quality.
 Take
a look at the ways we use water: bathing, cooking, boating, fishing,
washing our cars, producing electricity, swimming...The list is
endless. Each one of these activities uses water in a different
way. But regardless of how we use water and what we use it for,
we need it to be clean. We can't prepare our food with the water
we used to wash our clothes. We can't fish in streams full of runoff
from a hoglot. We can't drink water that collects in puddles on
the sidewalk. Why? Because of water quality.
This site looks
at the importance of water quality. You will research how we use
water, who uses it, and how these uses impact the quality of water.
You will learn how we have changed the way water cycles through
our environment. You will find ways to make a difference in water
quality through the choices you make.
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Hypoxia
& the Dead Zone
 The
Doyle family farms along the Mississippi River in Iowa. Their
corn and soybean crops grow in rich river soil, created by centuries
of sediment deposited by glaciers and the Mississippi's flood
cycles.
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What affect does farming have on water quality?
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