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Water: The Hydrologic Cycle and Human...
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- American Rivers
American Rivers is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring America's river systems and fostering a river stewardship ethic.
- Clean Water Act Reauthorization
This is a scholarly treatment of the recent Congressional legislation presented as a service of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment.
- Encyclopedia of Water Terms
This is a useful and extensive dictionary of water-related terms brought to you by the Texas Environmental Center.
- Glossary of Water Resource Terms
This page is another glossary of water-related terms.
- Groundwater.com
This page contains links to groundwater-related sites, frequently-used environmental sites, and an extensive list of geology sites.
- Mono Lake
The Mono Lake Committee maintains this site which gives historical and current information about the lake and efforts to restore it.
- National Institutes for Water Resources
The National Institutes for Water Resources is a network of research institutes in every state. They conduct basic and applied research to solve water problems unique to their area.
- National Water Data Exchange
The National Water Data Exchange’s primary objective is to assist users of water data and water information in the identification, location, and acquisition of the needed data and information.
- Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
This is the homepage of the USEPA office charged with protection of groundwater and drinking water.
- Safe Drinking Water Act Reauthorization Issues
This is a scholarly treatment of the recent Congressional legislation presented as a service of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment.
- Universities Water Information Network
The Universities Water Information Network disseminates information of interest to the water resources community and all concerned with our water resources.
- Water Resources of the United States
This is an excellent and extensive page from the U.S. Geological Survey.
- WaterWiser
WaterWiser's mission is to be a resource for water efficiency and water conservation information.
- World Water Council
Web site for the World Water Council, this has both of the documents produced for the World Water Forum of 2000. An excellent source for international perspectives on water problems.
- Transboundary Water Dispute Data Base
Transboundary Water Dispute Data Base – a web site that contains water-related treaties around the world and in the United States, giving summaries and the actual legal documents.
- International Rivers Network
The International Rivers Network, an organization with the mission to value and protect rivers and their watersheds for the human and biological communities that depend on them. It is a good source of information about the Three Gorges Project in China (opposed to it).
- “Linkages among water vapor flows, food production, and terrestrial ecosystem services,”
Electronically published source for the article “Linkages among water vapor flows, food production, and terrestrial ecosystem services,” by Johan Rockstrom et al. 1999. In it the authors explain the distinction between blue water and green water, and perform a bottom-up estimate of water vapor flows for the first time.
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