Green Careers: Water Management (clip)

As water becomes more and more scarce, the challenge is to boost water productivity and efficiency while protecting the natural environment.

This program presents an overview of job opportunities in water management such as flood control, reservoir management, levee design and repair, designing and operating dams and sewer systems, river management and restoration, monitoring fish populations, protecting habitats and endangered species, maintaining natural resources, water conservation, irrigation, landscape design, and more.

Water management is a fast-growing job opportunity. State, federal, and local governments spend billions of dollars a year on water management, and employ thousands of trained workers to conserve and distribute water while protecting the environment. You cant have a green world without water. 20 minutes, color.

Jobs profiled in this program include:
Chief Hydrologist, Water Transfer Coordinator, Natural Resource Manager, AmeriCorps Intern, Water Conservation Specialist, and Landscape Coordinator.

Grade Levels: 7 to Adult

direct link to purchase the DVD:

http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=d5692d0a-868...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Green
• Careers
• Water
• Management
• Hydrology
• ecology
• natural
• resources
• conservation
• environmental
• Phoenix
• Learning
• Group

[0102vuleak]

Get your degree and help develop a third world country!!! :-)

[robertico587]

Not sure where you're located, but you want a degree in Geology, Geography is a little bit more of a social science. University of Florida offers a degree in Geology, and they have a few classes in Hydro that you could take to show your specialization, you dont necessarily need your degree to state it.

[RenjiLambrusco]

i am getting into a university that doesn't have a hydrogeology major like i wanted, but it has Geography: water Studies. i might take this instead. any one have a geography degree like this or close to it?

[Argonaut22j]

Well I guess if you aren't going to have a job that really deals with water or levees, I could see how someone wouldn't really care.

[dookie2kie]

who cares? if ya lived in new orleans yu wud care.. see this is the problem, the idea that you design against nature rather than with it, eg flood prevention shud be looked at in terms of where is the floodplain.. and then maybe just maybe NOT build houses or road infrastructure there. Smart prevention rather than a band aid type of a repair..

[RevoBB]

Sometimes, taking down the levee walls and converting the area back into a swamp is the best way to prevent flooding.