Water Resources option

What is water resources?

The water resources option in environmental science focuses on understanding and managing the quality and quantity of water resources.

Why water resources?

With the water resources option in environmental science, you will learn and apply environmental concepts for managing and protecting water resources including groundwater, wetlands, lakes, streams, and rivers.

Apply Request more information

Career paths

Employment for graduates occurs in a wide range of fields and sectors including private, non-profit and government agencies. Graduates can look forward to working in one or more of the following fields:

Conservation planning
Environmental scientist
Hydrology
Land-use planning

Soil and water quality
Waste disposal
Wetlands and watershed management

20%PROJECTED JOB GROWTH

Jobs within the environmental science field are projected to grow about 20 percent through 2026, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Highlights

Hands-on learning

Many courses in the environmental science program are hands-on and designed to immerse you in the field, providing you with the opportunity to address environmental problems from the standpoint of ethics, risk, and scientific and social feasibility.

A multi-faceted approach

The environmental science undergraduate major is a multidisciplinary major directly supported by faculty from several departments within the Ferguson College of Agriculture: agricultural economics, biosystems and agricultural engineering, entomology and plant pathology, horticulture and landscape architecture, natural resource ecology and management, and plant and soil sciences. The combined approach, and experience of the faculty members, will give you a unique and multi-faceted academic career.

Undergraduate research

As an environmental science student, you will benefit from working with faculty who are conducting cutting-edge research involving environmental problems. The Ferguson College of Agriculture has long been committed to fostering research opportunities and partnerships that lead to scholastic achievement, societal improvements, technological innovation and economic revitalization.