Water eBooks

The practice of using living organisms to measure the condition of the environment has been around for many years. The following guide is an introduction to freshwater biomonitoring aimed at students, hobby naturalists, anglers, or anyone interested in becoming involved in citizen monitoring programs to help assess and protect the health and integrity of our waterways.

The step-by-step instructions outlined in this guide will help you perform a catch can irrigation audit on a pop-up sprinkler system.

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of onsite wastewater management, including soil and site selection; septic tank and drainfield construction, operation, and maintenance; wastewater treatment and disinfection systems; and reuse and conservation of wastewater.

This publication explains several key water quality parameters and gives guidelines for managing them for better pond health and productivity.

This publication describes management and prevention methods for controlling filamentous algae in ponds.

This publication gives instructions for using an Excel workbook (available at t http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_water/W-102_workbook.xlsx) to interpret results of water quality analyses.

This publication aims to help water managers, producers, and all users of Rio Grand Project water understand the policies that govern the project’s water use and distribution throughout the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID).

This publication describes methods for sanitizing stored water supplies, including determining volume of water to be treated, chlorine concentration, sanitizing procedure, and post-treatment precautions.