Virginia Water Central newsletter
About the newsletter
Virginia Water Central is published quarterly by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center (Alan Raflo, editor; George Wills, illustrator). Starting with the December 2007 issue, the newsletter will be distributed electronically only.
Current issue
The November 2009 issue (#51) includes:
- Feature 1: Ida Meets a Nor'Easter and Soaks Virginia
- Feature 2: Water Supply Planning on the Agenda in Virginia and Other States
- Feature 3: The Federal Government Takes Another Step into the Chesapeake Bay
- Feature 4: Virginia's Scenic Rivers Program Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
- Virginia SOLs for selected articles
- Water Status Report (including drought update and tropical storm update)
- In and Out of the News (plus click HERE for additional news items in the November 2009 NEWS SUPPLEMENT)
- Virginia Government Water Issues Overview
- Notices
- Virginia Water Research Conference: October 2009
Virginia Water Central is available in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format (you can download the free Acrobat Reader from here).
Newsletter archives
The archive of the complete issues is in the following table.
Click here for Section Archives.
Water Quality and You (PDF) (with Spanish translations; también en español)
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Typical content:
- Feature Articles - Detailed articles, typically on water-related policy or law.
- Science Behind the News - Explanations of scientific concepts or developments related to current water news.
- Water Status Report - Summaries of recent groundwater, precipitation, and stream flow conditions in Virginia
- Water Quality and You - Tips for individuals actions to protect water resources.
- In and Out of the News - Brief accounts of water news items in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay, and other states.
- Notices - Items about Virginia water-related government meetings, new publications or articles, useful Internet resources, and conferences.
- At the Water Center - Announcements of new publications, projects, grant opportunities, etc.
- For the Record - Compilations of sources for learning about various water-resources topics, such as water quality, laws and regulations, water-related maps, and drinking water.
- Teaching Water - Virginia Standards of Learning supported by Water Central articles.