Conserve the Quality
This "service" protects and enhances the lives of plants, animals, and their habitats.
What is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
This group has some of the nation's oldest water rights, but these rights are infrequently honored.
What is Native American Indian tribes?
USFS: Manages the largest single source of water in the U.S., conducts research, and regulates streamflows.
What is the U.S. Forest Service?
These buck-toothed engineers have been building dams for flood control and wetland creation far longer than any federal agency.
What are beavers?
Dr. Marston means business, and why not given he obtained this advanced degree.
What is an MBA?
Concerned with the safe water drinking act and urban hydrology among other things, this federal group is a safeguard for both health and nature.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This Interior agency manages more than a tenth of the nation's surface area, with water projects like stream culverts, water diversions, and low-water stream crossings.
What is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)?
USGS: Measures and documents the quantity and quality of ground and surface waters.
What is the U.S. Geological Survey?
This group operates some dams but their primary function is planning, construction, and operation of works for navigation and flood control in rivers and harbors.
What is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
Dr. Marston went to this university as an undergrad. Don't ask about March Madness.
What is the University of Kentucky?
What is Natural Resources?
This government level is responsible for allocating water among various users.
What is a State?
NWS: Conducts basic research in all areas of the hydrologic cycle, particularly rainfall and runoff forecasting.
What is the National Weather Service?
This group builds and operates dams in the Western U.S. primarily for agricultural irrigation and hydroelectric power.
What is the Bureau of Reclamation?
Dr. Marston once worked for this federal group, but don't expect to see him wearing a uniform anytime soon.
What is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
This law's stated objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters.
What is the Clean Water Act (CWA)?
These groups advocate for but rarely implement water plans.
What are Non-government Organizations (NGOs)?
NOAA: Provides predictions, forecasts, and reports for weather, climate, and water
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?
You might not find it on "TV" but this government-owned Authority provides power and flood control with 29 hydroelectric dams across 7 different states.
What is Tennessee Valley?
Dr. Marston worked at this university before coming to Virginia Tech.
What is Kansas State?
These calculations determine the maximum amount of a pollutant allowed to enter a waterbody and still meet water quality standards.
What are TMDLs?
Better known for "America's best idea" this group manages public lands, including the revitalization of waterfronts.
What is the National Park Service?
FEMA: In case of floods and other water-related emergencies you might want to give this Agency a call.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)?
Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell anchor this Bureau project, whose dams store water for millions of people across seven basin states.
What is the Colorado River Storage Project?
Dr. Marston has this many kids, they say good things come in _____.
What is three?