Surface-Water Topics

• Surface-water use
• Importance of surface water
• Rivers and streams
• What is runoff?
• Rivers and the landscape
  • Rivers and sediment
  • Comparing river lengths
• Lakes and reservoirs
• How is flow in a stream measured?
• Detailed explanation of streamflow
• How does stream height relate to flow?
• Floods and flood plains.

Earth's water Water Science home page USGS Water Resources The URL for this page is http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearthsw.html Comments? Contact Howard Perlman Last Modified: May 28, 2003