The Big ONE
Are you Ready for a Culture Change?
The Big ONE is our movement representing a tectonic shift in our thinking about our sustainability. The Big ONE project is designed by a collection of San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organizations and community members. The project peaks every year in June, as a two-day non-commercial free event in Golden Gate Park focusing on solutions-oriented communit ...learn more
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Created: Dec 18, 2007
Updated: Nov 02, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
Inland aquatic ecosystems include running waters (e.g. rivers, streams, thermal springs), standing waters (e.g. lakes, soda and saline lakes, ponds, even minute pools in some plants like bromeliads), and transitional wetlands. Freshwater environments are central to sustainability as inland waters provide drinking water, recreation, irrigation, industrial water, hydropower, fishing, wetland food production, waste discharge and floodplain hazards. Inland water uses are contentious because of dams, channelization, downstream pollution, invasive species, flood-control systems, sediment from hillslope impacts, and water level depletions.
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Keywords inland waters, freshwater, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, water resources, dams, channelization, floodplains, lentic, lotic |
