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Understanding water quality
Understanding water quality

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Course image: Jon Eby [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

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Figure 1:Arthur Trees/Science Photo Library

Figure 4: Roman Baths, Bath and NE Somerset Council

Figure 5: Richard Hamilton-Smith/Corbis

Figure 8: Copyright © Owen Mountford/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Figure 9: Dr Peter Webb, The Open University

Figure 10: Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queens Printer for Scotland

Figure 11: Copyright ©Environment Agency; Figure 5.12 Sir Frederick Warner (1994) Conference Paper No. 4, Industry and Society, HRH The Duke of Edinburghs Study Conference, July 1994

Figure 14: David Riecks, Illinois-Indiana Sea Great: courtesy Visualizing the Great Lakes www.epa.gov/ ginpo/ image

Figure 15: Race Engineering, North Wales

Figure 16: Environmental Consulting Associates, USA

Figure 17: Peter Leeds-Harrison, Cranfield University

Figure 18: Davie, T. (2002) Fundamentals of Hydrology, Routledge

Figure 19: Courtesy of the Environment Agency

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This resource was created by the Open University and released in OpenLearn as part of the 'C-change in GEES' project exploring the open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the GEES Subject Centre.

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