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Person in hard hat looks through windows down into the Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric dam control room. The binational dam is located on the border of Brazil and Paraguay on the Parana River.

Itaipu Binacional Dam sign in front of spillway. The binational dam is located on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay.

Speakers at United Nations 2023 Water Conference side event titled, “International and Transboundary Cooperation of Integrated Water Management: From Data Collection to Implementation”. Hydrologist Joel Groten is third from left.

Discussion between participants at United Nations 2023 Water Conference side event titled, “International and Transboundary Cooperation of Integrated Water Management: From Data Collection to Implementation”.

Speakers who presented at United Nations 2023 Water Conference side event titled, “International and Transboundary Cooperation of Integrated Water Management: From Data Collection to Implementation”.

 Joel Groten at the United Nations General Assembly during the UN2023 Water Conference.

View of participants from behind looking forward in the United Nations general assembly at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference.

#WATERACTION sign at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference. Large individual letter sign that states "#wateraction" with New York City skyline in background.

United Nations Headquarters in New York City. View looking up at United Nations headquarters building with flags in foreground.

Illustration of Gage Greatness Round 2 bracket. Winners are shown through Round 1.

At the USGS, we monitor our nation’s water. Our data informs many people, from kayakers to water managers. Gage Greatness allows any Twitter user to vote for their favorite gage (data collection station).

This is the instrument laboratory of the Organic Geochemistry Research Laboratory located in the KS WSC.

Photograph of Summer Lake Wildlife Area, an important stopping spot for migratory birds on their spring and fall migration flights. 

USGS-HIF instrument shelter located on the left bank on the upstream side of the bridge with Iridium and GOES antennas. (Credit: Scott Kimball, USGS) 

USGS-HIF rain gauge and meteorological instrument testing site, “the Corral,” with multiple instruments currently under test. (Credit: Scott Kimball, USGS) 

USGS-HIF Gaging station with elevated platform, two stilling wells and shelters, and plenty of work area for evaluation instruments. (Credit: Scott Kimball, USGS) 

USGS map identifying the percent probability for any location in New Hampshire to have groundwater with radon concentrations greater than the state government’s standard of 2,000 picocuries per liter for drinking water.

This map shows the airborne geophysical survey area and planned flight paths across the Illinois River Basin in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Surveys will not occur directly above populated areas. Planned flight lines and survey progress can be found online. 

(USGS map) 

This is a still, thumbnail image for the U.S. river conditions for Oct 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022.

Thumbnail image of US river conditions from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

A tile map of the US showing streamgages by flow levels through the month of December 2022. For each state, an area chart shows the proportion of streamgages in wet, normal, or dry conditions. Streamflow conditions are quantified using percentiles comparing the past month’s flow levels to the historic record for each streamgage.