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The Missouri River
A tour of the Missouri River and its surrounding area.
Discover a Watershed
"The Missouri River diagonally bisects the continent of North America west to east from Montana to Missouri where its waters join the Mississippi River near St. Louis. This places the citizens within the Missouri River Watershed in a unique position to impact the water quality and quality of life in one of the world's largest river systems. Today's students--the citizens of the future--are the best hope for a continued sustainable economy and healthy environment. Threats to the environment are increasingly complex and represent a clear danger to the ecosystem, human health, and the economic vitality of our respective nations. Through wise application of education materials, methods, and strategies, educators facilitate environmental preservation, protection, and conservation. This educators guide is intended to help teacher and student alike discover the 'personality' of the country from which the good land of the Missouri River Basin was created." --Foreward
The Missouri
This report is a tale of a great peaceful constructive undertaking -- freely assumed by the people of this country. It is a tale, briefly told, of our national effort to develop the vast resources of one-sixth the area of our country -- the Missouri River basin, greatest in the United States and one of the greatest in the world. The goal: Transformation -- of a drought-plagued, flood-ridden land, periodically over-grazed and overplowed; a valley rich in resources yet underpopulated, underindustrialized, and economically unstable -- to a land of greater economic security and strength, contributing its full share to the American welfare. In 1944, Congress authorized the Missouri River basin development program. How the plan works, its results to date, and future objectives are related in this booklet.
River of Promise, River of Peril
Snaking 2,540 miles from Montana to the Mississippi River, the Missouri is the longest waterway in the nation. Its basin—stretching 530,000 square miles—extends broadly into ten states and twenty-five Indian reservations. For millions of years the river and its tributaries meandered untamed. But that irrevocably changed with the passage of the Pick-Sloan Plan, part of the Flood Control Act of 1944. In River of Promise, River of Peril, John Thorson takes the first comprehensive look at how and why the Missouri River basin-now with six major dams and hundreds of miles of navigation canals-has become one of the most significantly altered drainage systems in the country. He also looks at the...
Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as indu...
