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EGR100 (spring 2020): Engineering for Everyone: Sustainable Water Resources

Spring 2020: D. Guswa

Encyclopedias

Scholarly encyclopedias will provide background information and references as well to other useful resources.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Subject Encyclopedia Examples:

Water Encyclopedia (Wiley)

Treatise on Water Science (Elsevier)

Wikipedia - Beware

BEWARE: Can provide useful background information, but don't believe everything you read! Evaluate and verify.

Contentious Science Topics on Wikipedia Subject to Editing Mishchief
by Meghan Rose, Science News [188;7, Oct. 3, 2015, p. 5.]

Other Reference Resources

CQ Press Library Comprehensive information on American government, politics, elections, law, public policy, and current affairs. Includes the CQ Researcher.
Drinking Water Quality (CQ Researcher)

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Subjects: Engineering, Environmental Science & Policy, Geosciences

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