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Ground Water and Drinking Water

Resource Management: Protecting your Drinking Water

This document contains an activity about using a simple mathematical model of ground water vulnerability to estimate the vulnerability of a small town's water supply.

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Resource Management: Protecting your Drinking Water (PDF)(2 pp, 306 K, 816-F-08-024)