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Hormones and pharmaceuticals, widely used for treatment of humans, domestic animals, and livestock, have the potential to enter the environment, including groundwater. In 2009, nearly 70% of Americans took at least one prescription drug, and more than half took 2 or more.

LSPIV camera setup over USGS gage 09333500 Dirty Devil River above Poison Springs Wash nr Hanksville, UT.

Example water budget visualization for Buck Creek-Delaware River showing the difference between inflow and outflow components.  Full visualization application is located at https://cida.usgs.gov/nwc-static/waterbudget-viz/

A reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary with little living coral and extensive bioerosion. Photo taken under research permit number FKNMS-2016-085-A1. Credit: USGS, Ilsa Kuffner.

Two views from the Rainbow Falls overlook, downstream of the Wailuku River streamgage near Hilo, Hawaii. The image on the left shows a typical base flow of about 35 cubic feet per second (cfs). The image on the right shows the early impact of Hurricane Lane with a flow of about 26,000 cfs taken at 8:35 a.m. HST, August 23, 2018. This U.S.

Research Oceanographer Lauren Toth and student volunteer Liz Whitcher drill a coral-reef core from a reef off Key West, Florida, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Photo taken under research permit FKNMS-2015-058. Credit: Anastasios Stathakopoulos, USGS.

Todd Preston, USGS contract scientist, collecting a surface-water sample from a Prairie Pothole wetland.

Landsat 5 captured this image of the Tampa Bay, Florida area on March 22, 1991.  

Bands 7,2,1 

Image processed at Center for Coastal Geology, St. Petersburg, Florida.

A valley in the Grand Canyon, AZ

USGS scientists on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Did you know that plants can help us understand what is happening underground? Studying plants in an area can sometimes provide information about soil conditions, water availability, and water quality.

Sediment Deposit in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Cross section of deposited sediment in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Rainbow over a canyon in the Grand Canyon, AZ

Comparing 2009 vs 2014 Bank surface after erosion, Grand Canyon AZ. 

Did you know that plants can sometimes help us understand what is happening underground? Studying plants in an area can provide information about soil conditions, water availability, and water quality.

Installing dissolved oxygen sensors at the Salmon River near East Hampton, Connecticut

Hydrologic technician making a streamflow measurement using a FlowTracker ADV in a river.

Aerial image of stream and wetlands collected using a small unoccupied aicraft (sUAS) or drone at Ashville Bridge Creek, Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Water Sampling on the Floodplain of the Missouri River

Aerial Image of the effects of the 2011 Missouri River Flood