Town of Niskayuna
Water Quality Virtual Library
The educational material linked to below has been produced by several different organizations through out the United States.
Regardless of where the material was produced, much of the information presented can be used to protect the water quality
in your own neighborhood.
Water Quality Presentation
Water Quality Educational Videos: Click on the " or " symbols to view.
Links to Viewers:  or  (Windows Media Player)
Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective (Courtesy of Washington State University Extension)
(Previously Recorded)
The Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program's Watershed Issues Series is turning its focus to strategies used by
municipalities and homeowners to manage stormwater. The case studies reflect use of Low Impact Development techniques
to manage runoff on-site and minimize pollution loading to waterways. Every year, billions of gallons of untreated stormwater
flow into streams and rivers across the nation. The Environmental Protection Agency calls it the 'number one water quality
problem.' This video is a examines successful stormwater management strategies used in three watersheds across the
nation - Boone, NC, Willoughby, OH and Portland, OR.
After the Rain: Urban Runoff (Courtesy of Oregon State University Extension Service)
Explores the importance of water, the pressures our cities are placing on this precious resource, and ways that individuals
can protect local drinking water supplies. The video should prove useful to anyone who is concerned about drinking water
safety and improving the natural world around us.
Protecting Our Water: who's got the power?(Courtesy of Delaware Nature Society and Watersheds.tv)
Protecting Our Water: who’s go the power? is a wonderful overview of many of the problems affecting our watersheds
today. Whether you live in a watershed in Pennsylvania or Delaware, or somewhere beyond or in-between, you’ll find
this production a positive educational resource and overview of what a watershed is and why it is such a sensitive yet
powerful system. Along with watershed dynamics, the basics of groundwater recharge and how impervious surfaces
affect our water supplies is also discussed, as well as issues like our changing landscape and how every change we
make to our land affects our water. The video further delves into essential information related to protecting stream
ecology, and what leaf litter and small stream organisms can tell us about the health of a stream.
We All Live Downstream (Courtesy of Oregon State University Extension Service)
Examines urban and rural runoff and the problems it creates for America's surface and groundwater supplies.
Also offers tips that can help people reduce nonpoint source pollution in watersheds across the country.
Are vehicle wastes carried away by stormwater? (Courtesy of NC State Cooperative Extension)
Examines the effects of vehicle washing on water quality.
Down the Drain (Courtesy of NC State Cooperative Extension)
An overview of efforts communities are using to implement stormwater management programs. Provides information
on various stormwater related topics. The video should prove useful to anyone who wants to learn about steps they
can take to protect water quality.
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