Alabama Water Quality Information System

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	1.-		Are there greater impacts of water-related hazards because so many people now live in coastal areas?


	2.-		Can floods be predicted?


	3.-		Can snowmelt runoff cause floods?


	4.-		Can urbanization increase flooding problems?


	5.-		How are diversions used to reduce potential flooding?


	6.-		How can I find out more about dam safety?


	7.-		How can natural stream system storage capacity be altered to reduce potential flooding?


	8.-		How do dams reduce flood damage?


	9.-		How do dams work?


	10.-		How do you floodproof structures built in flood prone areas?


	11.-		How does flooding impact human behavior?


	12.-		How much monetary damage can hail cause to property and annual agricultural crop production in the United States?


	13.-		How much monetary damage can intensive rainfall cause to property and annual agricultural crop production in the United States?


	14.-		I am downstream of a dam and concerned about my safety if there's a flood. How can I find out who is responsible for the dam and what they're doing to make sure I'm not at risk?


	15.-		Is it true that you should not build close to a river because you might get flooded?


	16.-		My house isn't near a creek, so why should I have to pay for flood protection?


	17.-		What are cyclones and hurricanes?


	18.-		What are dykes or levees and how do they reduce flood damage?


	19.-		What are some of the benefits and potential problems associated with stream channel modification?


	20.-		What are the causes and effects of flooding?


	21.-		What are the potential impacts of global warming and a changing climate?


	22.-		What are the primary features of the Emergency Watershed Protection Program?


	23.-		What are the primary measures used to reduce flood damage?


	24.-		What causes flash flooding?


	25.-		What causes shoreline flooding?


	26.-		What do I do in an emergency to disinfect my drinking water?


	27.-		What is a 7Q10 flow and how is it measured?


	28.-		What is a tsunami?


	29.-		What is the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?


	30.-		What is the greatest flood producing single rainfall event documented in the United States?

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This website was developed by the ACES Water Quality Team, under the leadership of Dr. James E. Hairston. It is funded, in part, by USDA-CSREES water quality grant support under Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998.