Alex Anlicker
Wikipedia

Water woes
A map of the different degrees and kinds of water scarcity

(blue: little water scarcity, red: physical water scarcity, peach: approaching water scarcity, orange: economic water scarcity

Credit: IWMI

In the News . . .

• Research Holds Revelations About an Ancient Society's Water Conservation -- ScienceDaily (09 April 2013)
  
  
• America's new love: Water -- CANDICE CHOI AP Food Industry Writer (11 March 2013)
  
  
• Climate Change Report Outlines Perils for U.S. Military -- John M. Broder, New York Times (9 November 2012)
  
  
• New Clues About Ancient Water Cycles Shed Light On U.S. Deserts -- ScienceDaily (27 September 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Tomb Built to Flood—Sheds Light on Peru Water Cult? -- National Geographic News (05 September 2012)
  
  

• American Water Resources Association
  
  
• Ancient Mediterranean Water Supply Networks Revived -- ScienceDaily (09 September 2011)
  
  
• Bacteria Museum
  
  
• Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law -- Peace Palace Library
  
  
• Blue Gold: World Water Wars [video] -- PBS (ca. 90 min., CC, 2008, UM Duluth Library Multimedia HD1691 .B584 2009 DVD)
  
  
• Blue Planet Project -- The Blue Planet Project is an international civil society movement begun by The Council of Canadians to protect the world’s fresh water from the growing threats of trade and privatization.
  
  
• Both ENDS: Environment and Development Service -- Dutch environmental organizations
  • Water
    
    
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
  
  
• Drinking water quality guidelines -- World Health Organisation
  
  
• EarthSave International [ ". . . founded by . . . John Robbins, as a direct result of the overwhelming reader response to his book Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices oAffect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth" (Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope)]
  
  
• The Environmental Institute -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  
  
• EPA: Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air
  
  
• European Environment Agency
  
  
• eWater Cooperative Research Centre -- Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Programme
  
  
• Food & Water Watch
  
  
• Freshwater -- United Nations Environment Program
  
  
• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank -- University of Washington Libraries
  
  
• Global Water Quality online database -- United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) Water Programme
  
  
• Healthy Water - Water Quality -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
  
• Hydrology & Water Resources -- BioSciEdNet (BEN)
  
  
• International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC)
  
  
• International Rivers
  
  
• International Water Centre (IRC)
  
  
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
  
  
• Lake Superior -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Large Lakes Observatory
  
  
• Life's Little Essential -- NOVA
  
  
• Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs -- New York Public Library
  
  
• The Middle East Water Collection -- Oregon State University Libraries
  
  
• Minnesota Sea Grant
  
  
• National Water Management Center
  
  
• National Water Quality Laboratory, Duluth, MN
  
  
• Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) -- UMD
  
  
• New Mexico Waters -- University of New Mexico Libraries
  
  
• Ocean Data Viewer -- UNEP-WCMC
  
  
• Ocean, Great Lakes and Coastal Research -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)
  
  
• [video] Poisoned Waters [Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound]-- Frontline, PBS (21 April 2009)
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• Royte, Elizabeth. Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water. NY: Bloomsbury, 2009.
  
  
• Renewable water resources in the world by country
  
  
• Shale gas drilling's dirty secret is out: The EPA's findings about fracking's contamination of ground water have sent a shockwave through a gas industry in denial -- The Guardian (09 December 2011)
  
  
• Singapore International Water Week -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Small-Holder Farmers in Kenya Dig for Survival -- Guardian (13 September 2011)
  
  
• Solomon, Steven. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization. NY: Harper Collins, 2011.
  
  
• Standing, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses ["Epilogue"]. NY: Walker, 2005.
  
  
• The Tale of Two Umudugudus (Villages) -- New York Times (09 September 2010)
  • Interviews on Water Use Are Thirsty Work -- New York Times (01 September 2010)

See also BBC News Science and Environment

• Test and Treat Before You Drink [K-12] -- Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
  
  
• The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database -- The Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation (PWCMT), Oregon State University
  
  
• Underground Rivers -- Richard J. Heggen, University of New Mexico
  
  
• UMD Sea Grant, see Minnesota Sea Grant
  
  
• UN-Water
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
  • Farm Practices & Management
    • Irrigation & Water Use
  • Natural Resources & Environment
    • Water Quality
      • Irrigation & Water Use
        
        
• U.S. Drought Portal -- National Integrated Drought Information System
  
  
• U.S. Geological Survey
  • Earth's water distribution
  • National Water Quality Assessment Program
    
    
• USGS Minnesota Water Science Center
  
  
• Water -- Colorado State University Extension
  
  
• Water: H₂O=Life -- American Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Water: Asia's Next Challenge -- Asia Society
  
  
• Water [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  
  
• Water -- United Nations Global Issues
  
  
• Waterlife -- National Film Board of Canada
  
  
• Water: Our Thirsty World -- National Geographic (April 2010)

• Water policy in the European Union -- EUROPA > European Commission > Environment > Water
  
  
• Water Quality Information Center (WQIC) -- USDA
  
  
• Water Quality Knowledge and Information Network (WQIN)
  
  
• Water Quality Monitoring -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Water Resources Center -- University of Minnesota
  
  
• Water Resources Science - University of Minnesota Duluth
  
  
• Waterworks Museum -- Boston
  
  
• Why Cleaned Wastewater Stays Dirty In Our Minds -- Alix Spiegel, National Public Radio (16 August 2011)
  
  
• World Rivers Day -- Wikipedia
  
  
• World Water Day -- Wikipedia
  
  
• The World of Water Quality -- United Nations GEMS/Water Programme
  • UNEP Global Environmental Monitoring System