What are the components of wastewater and why are they a problem.
What is the National Pretreatment program? Who does it apply to? How does it work?
What are the components of a wastewater plant? What do they do?
What steps are involved in primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment?
What methods are there for disinfection? What are their pros and cons?

Where is water located? How long does it take to renew?
What are the parameters of the water cycle?
How can they be measured? With what accuracy?
How can water supply be estimated?
What is the definition of water stress? Water scarcity?
How many people are living in water stressed conditions today? In 2025?
What sectors use the most water in the US?

What is the fundamental principle governing riparian rights? prior appropriation?
What are your rights as a riparian owner? Under prior appropriation? How can these rights be lost? What is the nature of reasonable use under each doctrine?
Why did the doctrine of prior appropriation arise? Why didn't we just use riparian doctrines everywhere?
What are the elements of an appropriation, in other words, what has to occur for an appropriation to be valid?
What is surface water law in Texas?
What is the Colorado River compact all about? Why is there a problem with the allocation of the Colorado? How do Mexico and Indian Rights impact the allocation of the Colorado?

What are the doctrines that groundwater can be managed under. How do they work?
What would liability be under the various doctrines?
What is the concept of conjunctive use all about? How does it work?
What are some of the major problems dominating groundwater use in the global society? What are the unique advantages to using groundwater?
What are the issues regarding Los Angeles and the Owens Valley? What is happening now?
Where is the Ogallala or High Plains aquifer? What is the nature of the aquifer? What are the problems? How are they being dealt with?
What is a water conservation district and what does it do?
What are the impacts of groundwater overdrafts and why are these a problem?

What are the major ways to make water more available for human use?
What were the benefits/impacts from the following water storage or redistribution schemes: Aswan Dam, Three Gorges Dam, Aral Sea, Mono Lake?
What are potential conservation efficiencies that can be realized in the following sectors: agriculture, urban?
What are some pricing schemes that can be implemented? How do these affect conservation of water?
What is aquifer storage and recovery? How does it work? Where does it work best? What physical problems are there with its use? What are some of the potential legal impediments to its use?
What are some methods of non-traditional source development? How do they work? What are their pros and cons?

What changes have occurred in the water cycle in the last hundred years? With regard to potential climate change scenarios what changes are we likely to see?
What are the key issues that need to be considered in thinking about potential changes in the water supply?

What are some of the problems of water supply in Texas and mentioned solutions? (film)

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