Summary for Monday January 11th

Today's lecture was your basic first day format of outlining the information available in the syllabus, and discussion of the topics that will be covered in the term ahead.

I suppose that the take home points from the day were as follows:

1. We use a lot of water- much of which is used on our behalf by the entities that create the things (food, clothing, paper, electricity) that we consume.

2. We are protected from realizing the vast complexities of the infrastructure that delivers our water and water-produced products because the system is designed to work in such a way as to shield us (when everything is working properly).

3. All of the water resource-related problems that we will discuss throughout the course of this term will fall into one of the three following categories:
a. too much water (flooding)
b. too little water (really more like water that is not exactly where you want it to be)
c. dirty water (water quality)

Please read chapters 1 and 3 of Manning by class on Wednesday.

Also, do not forget the homework assignment that is due tomorrow (Tuesday).