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This section of the website is meant to provide the basics of water quality and hydrology for those who don’t have a strong science background or need a refresher. It is organized into three parts:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/additional-resources-overview/water-science-primer/water-as-a-molecule" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="547cdf09-dd95-44bb-bcf7-fd5b23bd07dd" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Water as a Molecule">Water as a Molecule</a> focuses on understanding the remarkable physical and chemical properties of water, and how they affect its behavior (and ultimately its management).</li> <li><a href="/additional-resources-overview/water-science-primer/introduction-to-water-quality" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="9616e2d8-8ce5-412d-8d3f-3285d3cab96f" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Introduction to Water Quality">Introduction to Water Quality</a> covers basic water-quality concepts and explores 16 water-quality parameters.</li> <li><a href="/additional-resources-overview/water-science-primer/introduction-to-hydrology" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="bac3ace6-fb31-4662-9c76-89d39e142a69" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Introduction to Hydrology">Introduction to Hydrology</a> provides “what you need to know” about the movement of water in the environment, organized around the concepts of stocks and flows.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div data-animate-item="enabled" data-component-width="site" data-pull-quote-style="bar-left" data-component-theme="one" data-component-alignment="left" class="pull-quote"> <div class="pull-quote__inner"> <figure class="pull-quote__figure"> <blockquote class="pull-quote__quote"> <p>“Water is wet. Oh water is wet. How much wetter could water get? Not any wetter at all, I bet. Oh water is wet.”</p> </blockquote> <figcaption class="pull-quote__attribution">—<p>Weird Al Yankovic</p></figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div data-animate-item="enabled" data-component-width="site" data-pull-quote-style="bar-left" data-component-theme="one" data-component-alignment="left" class="pull-quote"> <div class="pull-quote__inner"> <figure class="pull-quote__figure"> <blockquote class="pull-quote__quote"> <p>“Liquid water is not in itself wet.”</p> </blockquote> <figcaption class="pull-quote__attribution">—<p>UCSB Science Line (http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=6097)</p></figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </main> </div> <div id="block-yalesitesfooterblock"> <footer data-component-width="site" data-site-footer-border-thickness="8" data-footer-theme="one" data-footer-accent="one" data-footer-variation="basic" class="site-footer"> <div class="site-footer__inner"> <div class="site-footer__primary"> <div class="site-footer__branding"> <div class="site-footer__logo"> <a data-link-style="no-underline" class="site-footer__site-branding site-footer__site-branding--primary" href="https://yale.edu"></a> </div> </div> <div class="site-footer__columns"> </div> </div> <div class="site-footer__secondary"> <div class="site-footer__social"> </div> <div class="site-footer__meta"> <a data-link-style="underline-with-icon" data-link-type="external" class="link link--footer-link link--with-icon" href="https://usability.yale.edu/web-accessibility/accessibility-yale"> Accessibility at Yale</a> <span class="site-footer__divider">|</span> <a data-link-style="underline-with-icon" data-link-type="external" class="link link--footer-link link--with-icon" href="https://privacy.yale.edu/resources/privacy-statement"> Privacy Policy</a> <span class="site-footer__divider">|</span> <span>Copyright © 2024 Yale University. 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