Water Education Pages From Enviroment Canada: Freshwater Web Site

Explore Water with Holly Heron
Young students can learn how to become better environmental citizens by increasing their knowledge and understanding about water through simple activities and experiments. Teach them how they can take action to conserve and protect water in their everyday lives. (more)

From the Mountains to the Sea: a Journey in Environmental Citizenship
Children's activity book. Illustrates the interdependence of all parts of the entire ecosystem and the fact that air, water, land, plants and animal life are all interrelated. (more)

Water - Nature's Magician
Water is at once simple and complex. A water molecule itself is simple, made up of three atoms. The make-up includes two hydrogen and one oxygen to form H20. The configuration of these building blocks produces a molecule with almost magical properties. (more)

Water - Here, There and Everywhere
How much water is there in the world? Water covers nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface in oceans as well as rivers, lakes, snow and glaciers. There is water in the atmosphere and water underground. Water leaves and returns to the earth in what is known as the hydrologic cycle. (more)

Clean Water - Life Depends on It!
What's in a glass, a sink, and a river full of water? A refreshing drink? A cleansing wash? An invigorating swim? A home for plants, insects, fish, birds and mammals? It all depends on the water quality. (more)

Water Works!
Water works for us in many ways, making our lives easier and more enjoyable. But we must take great care not to overuse and abuse this precious resource. (more)

Groundwater - Nature's Hidden Treasure
Groundwater is an essential and vital resource many communities. It is their sole source of water for drinking and washing, for farming and manufacturing, indeed, for all their daily water needs. (more)

Water Conservation - Every Drop Counts
The importance of protecting our water resources cannot be overstated. In environmental terms, water is the lifeblood of the planet. Without a steady supply of clean, fresh water, all life, including human, would cease to exist. (more)

Water, Art, and the Canadian Identity: At the Water's Edge
A river is water in its loveliest form, rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the life blood returns to the heart. Roderick Haig-Brown (more)

Water - The Transporter
Discusses water's ability to transport large amounts of soil in the form of sediment. (more)

Water - Vulnerable to Climate Change
For thousands of years we have found it necessary to control water in order to have it where we want it, when we want it. Nonetheless, some areas still suffer from drought, and some from flood. This is due partly to the natural variability of climate and partly to inappropriate land and water use. Now climate seems to be changing beyond that natural variability, and this is likely to impact on the availability and distribution of water. (more)

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