Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET)

The Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET) was developed to help educate local officials and other concerned citizens about water resources. InterWET gives a technical and multi-perspective response to local watershed issues, using as a case study the Spring Creek Watershed in central Pennsylvania. InterWET can be used as a stand-alone educational resource and as part of larger watershed educational efforts for a variety of people in many different watersheds.


InterWET consists of a set of web pages that present the water resources issues of surface runoff, groundwater, sediment, in-stream nutrients, and fish populations from the perspectives of a researcher, a conservationist, and a local official. Each web page has a short lesson which uses an interactive calculator or interactive map. These lessons are meant to increase the knowledge and understanding of the learner.


InterWET was designed as solely an educational tool. The calculators, maps, and monitoring data developed and used in InterWET are based on many assumptions and should not be used for local planning or policy. Actual planning and policy, however, may make use of the original source data sets, which are listed throughout InterWET. The web pages are arranged to focus on either the water resource issues or the different perspectives.


This web page is the starting point for InterWET. To go through the components in InterWET, you use either a water resources sequence or a perspectives sequence. Both sequences will take you through all the web pages.




This imagemap shows these two sequences and can take you directly to any page.


Begin Page Runoff Intro Groundwater Intro Sediment Intro Nutrients Intro Fish Intro Researcher Intro Conservationist Intro Local Official Intro Runoff 1 Runoff 2 Runoff 3 Groundwater 1 Groundwater 2 Groundwater 3 Sediment 1 Sediment 2 Sediment 3 Nutrient 1 Nutrient 2 Nutrient 3 Fish 1 Fish 2 Fish 3 Final Summary



You can also use these navigating buttons to go through InterWET. For either the water resources sequence or the perspectives sequence, use the proper button to get to the next page in the sequence.
Back for Water Resources
Back for Perspectives
Home
Next for Water Resources
Next for Perspectives


For more details on using InterWET, there is an Online User's Guide which is part of the Doctoral Dissertation Research that produced InterWET.




Questions or Problems? Let me know at parson@andassoc.com.
Last revision 9/9/01.
Created by Shane Parson, Copyright 1999.