• Polite way of saying there's an overabundance of manure in the water coming from dairy, hog and poultry farms entering Chesapeake
  
  

• How stormwater runoff in Selah could kill an albatross thousands of miles from here

• KC water department gets $1.4M for 'green' storm-water project

• Fish in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of chemicals
  
  

• EPA Puts Up $1 Million to Fund Sustainable Ag Projects
  Explore cutting-edge ways of reducing the use of pesticides on farms.
  
  

• Bush Administration Midnight Rollback Puts Grand Canyon, Water at Risk
  
  

• Algae blooms do billions in damage
  
  

• Rule Would Ease Mining Debris Disposal Overhauling a 25-year-old prohibition
  
  
  (By Michael Williamson -- Post)

• Great perils of the Great Lakes
  
  

• Brazil officials track disease from flood-tainted water
  
  

• In pictures: Venice under water
  
  

• A troubled urban habitat in the shadow of the MOA
  
  

• Charles River Property Owners Must Now Control Stormwater
  
  

Water throughout the World

The majority of the Earth is covered with water, and almost all of that is part of the oceans. 

Only a small portion of the Earth's water is freshwater. This includes such things as rivers, lakes, and groundwater.

A significant quantity of water is stored as ice, within the Polar ice caps. Freshwater is required as potable (drinking), agriculture, and industry. 

Our sources of water are divided into the following resources.

Few rivers flow into the Pacific Ocean since it is bordered by mountains. However, many large rivers flow into the Atlantic Ocean carrying sediment from the land. 

This process is one step of the water cycle .