Barnegat Bay's watershed, which stretches throughout Ocean County, is already 37percentt developed, he said.
restoration at Colorado's Trail Creek watershed, which also supplies Coke's Denver bottling facility.
Those rules also apply to the smaller Skaneateles Lake watershed, which supplies drinking water to Syracuse and some other communities.
It is also critical to the entire Penobscot River watershed, which covers nearly a third of the state.
Most environmentalists point to the watershed, which provides drinking water to New York City and most of Westchester.
"Simultaneously, you can take the aggregated data and start to check the health of a watershed, which is an environmental issue," Luckey says.
That knowledge, or lack of it, extended to the understanding of the large and complex watershed, which includes the slopes of Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the contiguous United States.
When heavy rains occur in the Paria River watershed, which drains rocky territory in southwestern Utah, they frequently flush tons of silt into the Colorado, which the Paria meets below the dam.
(For a character-driven portrayal of the Southwest's ongoing water troubles, watch Robert Redford's new documentary "Watershed," which tells the story of water use in the Southwest by focusing on the role of the Colorado River).
The two watersheds are the New York City watershed, which covers one million acres north and west of the city and provides drinking water to 8.2 million people, and the smaller Skaneateles Lake watershed near Syracuse.
Every day, the toxic run-off from the poultry houses in Arkansas streams into the huge Illinois River watershed, which supplies drinking water for 22 public water utilities in eastern Oklahoma.
