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Landsat 7 20 Anniversary Spacecraft Facts

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USGS Multi-Year 3DEP Priority Areas for Data Acquisition

USGS Earth MRI FY19 3DEP Priority Areas for Data Acquisition

Learn About Water!

Earth's water is always in movement, and the natural water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Water is always changing states between liquid, vapor, and ice, with these processes happening in the blink of an eye and over

Learn About Water!

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have teamed up to create a water-cycle diagram for schools and kids. It is available in over 30 languages and also in an interactive version made for online

Landsat 8 image of Kandahar, Afghanistan on March 3, 2019, rendered with bands 7, 5, and 1 of the satellite's Operational Land Imager.

USGS Diagram of How Streamgage Data is Transferred To The Internet.

Streamflow Data on the Internet All USGS stage and streamflow information is available in near real time through the National Water Information System Web Interface (NWISWeb) for Texas (fig. 5) at: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/rt). In addition

Diagram of Channel Cross Section With Subsections.

The most common method used by the USGS for measuring velocity is with a current meter. However, a variety of advanced equipment can also be used to sense stage and measure streamflow. In the simplest method, a current meter turns with the flow of the river or stream. The current meter is used to measure water

NWISMapper screenshot of Wyoming-Montana Stream Water-Quality Network Sites

Location (A, B) of Pend Oreille River and tributaries assessed in this study as a spatial network of habitat patches and barriers (C) for which reintroduction of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) (D) was simulated. Bull trout illustration by Joseph R. Tomelleri.

Location map of the Fire Island study area with labels

Components of a simple water budget for part of a watershed, from Healy, R.W., Winter, T.C., LaBaugh, J.W., and Franke, O.L., 2007, Water budgets: Foundations for effective water-resources and environmental management: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1308.

PROSPER in StreamStats screenshot

StreamStats application screenshot

Thermoelectric power water withdrawals for 2015

Livestock water withdrawals in 2015

Mining water withdrawals in 2015

Irrigation water use withdrawals in 2015

Industrial water use in 2015

Domestic Water Use Withdrawals in 2015

Public Supply Water Use in 2015

Figure 1. The USGS FIM Mapper, showing an example flood and hydrograph for Terra Haute, Ind. (Please note, the flood condition displayed represents a higher stream stage than shown in the hydrograph.)

Screenshot of Our Coast, Our Future (OCOF) interactive map view of Stinson Beach, California, showing extent of flooding predicted if subjected to a sea-level rise of 100 centimeters (about 40 inches) and elevated water levels caused by a 100-year storm.

Map of Alaska showing probability (%) of change occurrence. Insets show fire boundaries from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Large Fire Database and Landsat 8 imagery (bottom right; 2016) north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

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NPS Multi-Year 3DEP Priority Areas for Data Acquisition

USFS Multi-Year 3DEP Priority Areas for Data Acquisition

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. Annually, billions of prescriptions are filled

Cover of the 2018 publication, "California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment: Statewide Summary Report."

Total saline water withdrawals by State, 2015

As the chart shows, the use of saline water, and freshwater, also, has been trending downward since peaking in 1980. Of interest, from 1950 to 1975 the use of saline water increased at a much higher rate than freshwater use.

Pie charts of saline-water withdrawals by category of use, 2015.

Two pie charts, showing total water withdrawals (fresh and saline), and saline water withdrawals, for certain categories of water use, for year 2015.

This image showing the Black Hills and Badlands, South Dakota is a mosaic of multiple Landsat 8 scenes acquired in 2015 and 2016. 

Source and Use of Freshwater in the United States, 2015

This diagram uses a "cylinder and pipe" layout to show the source (surface water or groundwater) of the Nation's freshwater and for what purposes the water was used in 2015. The data are broken out for each category of use by surface water and groundwater as the source.

Data are rounded and are reported

Map of the U.S. by state, showing total water withdrawals, 2015

Source and Use of Water in the United States, 2015

This diagram uses a "cylinder and pipe" layout to show the source (surface water or groundwater) of the Nation's water and for what purposes the water was used in 2015. The data are broken out for each category of use by surface water and groundwater as the source.

Data are rounded and are reported in million

Cover of The HayWired Earthquake Scenario—We Can Outsmart Disaster, USGS Fact Sheet 2018-3016

Conceptual diagram showing impact of sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding on atoll-island groundwater. (A) Current sea level. (B) Future sea level. Sea-level rise will allow for greater wave heights (H) and wave-driven runup (R), resulting in frequent overwash that will contaminate the atoll island’s freshwater lens. Note: Heights are exaggerated. From article by

Water-quality sampling sites in the upper Clark Fork Basin, Montana

Wyoming-Montana Stream Water-Quality Network site map

The choice when issuing earthquake warnings is to: 1) issue alerts for weak shaking and potentially provide long warning times, but risk sending alerts for the many events that do not go on to produce damaging ground shaking, or 2) issue alerts only when ground shaking is expected to be damaging, with the tradeoff that the alert will be sent much later, reducing the

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This graphic depicts the status of USGS US Topo map production as of March 20, 2018, showing maps published from 2013 to 2017, and maps planned to be published in fiscal year 2018, under the Alaska Mapping Initiative.

USGS HUC Region Map

ما هي دورة الماء؟ أستطيع أن أجيب على ذلك بكل سهولة – إنها "أنا" في كل مكان! إن دورة الماء تصف وجود وحركة المياه على الأرض وداخلها وفوقها. وتتحرك مياه الأرض دائما، وتتغير أشكالها بإستمرار، من سائل إلى بخار، ثم إلى جليد، ومرة أخرى إلى سائل. لقد ظلت دور دورة الماء تعمل مليارات السنين، وتعتمد عليها كل الكائنات الحية التي تعيش على الأرض حيث من دونها تصبح الأرض مكانا طارداً

Vannets Kretsløp for Barn

Amerikas geologiske undersøkelse (USGS) og FNs mat og jordbruksorganisasjon (FAO) har gått sammen for å lage en plakat om vannets kretsløp for barn opp til ungdomsskolealder.

Hva er vannets kretsløp? Det er "meg" overalt. Vannets kretsløp beskriver forekomsten og bevegelsen av vann oppå, inn i, og over jorden.