Surfers Without Borders

Fostering Good Works in places with Good Waves

This group came about as a desire to share the stoke of surfing while providing sustainable assistance to communities in need in the form of Permaculture Design.  The primary ecological focus is to help communities create a secure water and food supply.  The primary geographical focus is Latin America. The fact that over two-thirds of the world is lacking c ...learn more

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Created: Dec 08, 2007

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Inland Water Ecosystems


Inland waters make up a minute portion of the planet's water resources (less than one hundredth of one percent). Nevertheless, they are crucial to human survival, hold a disproportionate number of species (more threatened than either oceans or land species), and are central to sustainability issues. Inland water ecosystems include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, standing water, and wetlands.

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inland waters, freshwater, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, water resources, dams, channelization, floodplains, lentic, lotic, aquatic ecosystems
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Inland Aquatic Ecosystems

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Lakes and Ponds

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Riparian Ecology and Conservation

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River-Lake Ecology and Biodiversity

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Rivers and Creeks

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Wetlands

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What get me is why cont to kill all the water that  were to suppose to run as they were running before man's want to change it., it seen that we are at the system that begin to become the old way,s on have we used mother earth like we did care about what we do, in some thing's that are as human as need ,but to learn and stop to  think about how we are doing this place where we live, by waking other pay for what we did wrong, now we do do wrong, beside doing more damage's then we already have done though the years we have did, but what we have done, when there were plenty to go around for all to enjoy, not just for few the with bad idea's but to learn how to recoiled where we are at time in our World.
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