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Las Vegas and Lake Mead
Las Vegas receives about 90% of its water from the Colorado River through Lake Mead.
Water Literacy News
This special topic blog has happily migrated to its new home—here at Miscellaneous.
Lentic and Lotic
Lentic is an ecological adjective describing organisms or habitats situated in non-moving fresh water that includes ponds, swamps, bogs, lagoons, and lakes. The opposite is lotic, which includes moving fresh water as in a run, creek, brook, spring, stream, channel, or river.
Deserts of the Ocean
Without corals to act as the main players in a complex system of nutrient exchange, tropical seas would just be watery deserts. A coral reef is an oasis.
Sand Dune Ecology
“Sand dunes are less arid than they appear; in fact, they are among the moistest of desert habitats. Like a sponge, dunes soak up every drop of rain that falls on them.”
