Slides from the presentation given by Allen Pursell from The Nature Conservancy during the Nov 10, 2011 meeting of the Indiana Sustainable Natural Resources Task Force. More info: http://www.indianawildlife.org/snrtf.htm

1. Freshwater in Indiana
Allen Pursell
The Nature Conservancy

4. ● Flows freely for over 411 miles
● Drains over 33,000 square miles
● From 73 of Indiana’s 92 counties
● 151 species of fish
● 75 mussel species

5. 5 of the richest
40 river
segments in
the US are
associated
with
the Wabash

7. Fawnsfoot Slippershell
Pistolgrip
Pink
heelsplitter
Purple wartyback
Elephantear
Threehorn wartyback
Monkeyface
Ring pink

20. Percentage increases in the amount falling in very heavy precipitation
events (defined as the heaviest 1% of all daily events) from 1958–2007.
31%
Percentage change in very heavy precipitation
0 10 20 30 40 60

22. 9m
3m 3m

30. Total Nitrogen Total Phosphorus
Cumulative Yield Cumulative Yield
State Total % % (kg/km2/yr) State Total % % (kg/km2/yr)
Illinois 16.8 16.8 1734.9 Illinois 12.9 12.9 117.4
Iowa 11.3 28.1 1167.2 Missouri 12.1 25.0 89.4
Indiana 10.1 38.2 1806.6 Iowa 9.8 34.8 89.2
Missouri 9.6 47.8 800.5 Arkansas 9.6 44.4 94.6
Arkansas 6.9 54.7 750.1 Kentucky 9.0 53.4 113.4
Kentucky 6.1 60.8 879.5 Indiana 8.4 61.8 132.3
Tennessee 5.5 66.3 757.7 Tennessee 5.3 67.1 61.9

31. Global Reserves of Rock Phosphate by Country
in billions of tons
Algeria 2009
China Even older estimates 2011
put Morocco in the lead
Jordan
Morocco
Russia
South Africa Previously overlooked
geological reports from
Syria
the 1980’s bumped up
estimates.
United States
other
0 10 20 30 40 50

33. Indiana is losing reservoir capacity. This will potentially
result in more frequent flooding and also water shortages,
especially since current w