Judy Vesel, Principal Investigator and Project Director

Linda Bean-Pardee, Project Designer
Bryce Flynn, Senior Web Designer and Illustrator
Robby Griffin, Web Support Specialist
Topher Hagemeier, Curriculum Developer
Arthur Johnson, Project Evaluator
David Libby, Director of Information Systems
Vanessa Layne, Web Toolsmith
Lisa M. Miller, Senior Web Developer
Matthew O'Toole, Web Consultant
Tara Robillard, Materials Developer and Evaluator
Laura Uhl, Editor

Joni Cooke, Leeds Central School, Leeds, ME; Susan Hurstcalderone, Our Lady of Lourdes School, Bethesda, MD; Sharon Jeffery, Plymouth South Middle School, Plymouth, MA; Robert Kopicko, Abbott Middle School, West Bloomfield, MI; Ivo Mikulasek, Dobronin 163, Czech Republic; Vivian Pokrzyk, Lewiston-Porter Middle School, Youngstown, NY; Bill Richard, Meadowbrook School, Weston, MA; Leslie Seppala, Lancaster School, Lancaster, NH; Jeanine Staab, Medford Area Middle School, Medford, WI; Adah Stock, Irving Middle School, San Antonio, TX; Floyce Taj, Gateway Elementary, Phoenix, AZ; Tom Wellnitz, The Paideia School, Atlanta, GA; Lisa West, Median Middle School, Columbus, OH.

Elena Dworkin Wright, Managing Editor

Concetta Brown, Production Designer
Claudette Dawes, Editor
Sarah McAbee, Production Designer
Alyssa Mito Pusey, Editor
Martha MacLeod Sikkema, Production Designer

This unit was developed by TERC and funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant ESI-9553592, and the National Geographic Society. All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders. A prior version of the unit was developed by TERC in collaboration with the National Geographic Society and published as the Is Our Water at Risk? part of the National Geographic Kids Network series.