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We All Live Downstream

Water pollution affects us all--and we're all part of the solution. Learn how runoff from our farms, forests, and neighborhood streets has become the greatest threat to our supplies of fresh drinking water.
29 minute streaming video.

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After the Rain: Urban Runoff

Explores the importance of water, the pressures our cities are placing on this precious resource, and ways that individuals can protect local drinking water supplies.
30 minute streaming video.

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Life on the Edge: Restoring Riparian Function

Explores the pivotal role riparian areas play in the health of our watersheds, how land uses impact this sensitive strip along water's edge, and the techniques used to improve and protect riparian function.
12 minute streaming video.

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Buying Time: Instream Restoration

Instream Restoration viewers explore the critical role streams play in our watersheds and see what landowners from the coast range to the high deserts are doing to help improve Oregon's precious streams.
15 minute streaming video.

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Tracking Beach Contamination

Oregon State University Extension Service has teamed with state and federal researchers to document the timing of bacterial contamination on south coast beaches and to trace the sources of that contamination.

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Precipitating Change

We asked several Oregon State University faculty members, "Assuming we are in a long-term warming trend, what should we be doing to prepare for the future?"

Gail Achterman, Institute for Natural Resources; 1:08
George Taylor, Oregon State Climatologist; 1:43
Michael Campana, Institute for Water and Watersheds; 1:19
Michael Harte, Marine Resource Management; 1:10
Richard Adams, Agricultural and Resource Economics; 1:21
Ron Neilson, Botany and Plant Pathology; 1:20