In the News . . .

 The Great [Global] Toilet Battle -- Deutsche Welle (DW) Documentary (42:25 min., 2022, CC, Transcript)


• Northern Italy drought threatens olive oil, risotto rice and passata supplies -- The Guardian (13 July 2022)
  
  
• Singapore craft beer uses recycled sewage to highlight water scarcity -- The Guardian (1 July 2022)
  
  
• Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet -- The New York Times (14:27; 01 February 2022)
  
  
• Life at 50C: Mexico's struggle for water -- BBCNews (28 September 2021)
  
  
• Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers -- The New York Times (13 April 2021)
  
  
• Why our food needs to use less water -- BBCReel (18 February 2021)
  
  
• Land subsidence 'will affect almost fifth of global population' -- The Guardian (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Living Soil film documents soil health movement
  -- OrbanicBIZ (20 October 2020)
  
  • Living Soil -- Top Documentary Films, Chelsea Wright, Director (60 min. 2018)
    
    
• Japan to release 1m tonnes of contaminated Fukushima water into the sea – reports -- The Guardian (15 October 2020)
  
  
• Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe -- The Guardian (26 September 2020)
  
  
• 'It smells bad, it tastes bad': how Americans stopped trusting their water -- The Guardian (22 September 2020)
  
  
• 'Water is sacred': 10 visual artists reflect on the human right to water -- The Guardian (04 August 2020)
  
  
• The wells bringing hope in the [Sahara] desert -- BBCfutureplanet (30 July 2020)
  
  
• River Nile dam: Sudan blasts 'unilateral' move as Ethiopia dam fills -- BBCNews (16 July 2020)
  
  
• England's future water supplies at 'serious risk' -- BBCnews 10 July 2020)
  
  
• US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows -- The Guardian (02 July 2020)
  
  
• High levels of arsenic found in US Whole Foods’ bottled water brand -- The Guardian (24 June 2020)
  
  
• Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade -- The Guardian (23 June 2020)
  
  
• The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) webinar series -- United Nations (08 June 2020)
  
  
• Animal feedlots are a likely threat to drinking water in Minnesota, says report -- The Guardian (28 May 2020)
  
  
• Water + Us -- Ag Web (15 May 2020)
  
  
• 'It'll cause a water war': divisions run deep as filling of Nile dam nears -- The Guardian (23 April 2020)
  
  
• ‘There’s No More Water’: Climate Change on a Drying Island [Comoros] -- The New York Times (16 April 2020)
  
  
• Once Was Water -- Christopher Beaver, Director, Bullfrog Films (2019, 55 min.)
  
  
• Waterworld: Living with Climate Change -- Top Documentary Films (42 min., 2019)
  
  
• When the Rain Stops Falling -- Deutsche Welle (DW, 42 MIN., 2019)
  
  
• City without Water [Cape Town, South Africa]-- Top Documentary Films (24 min., 2019)
  
  
• Poor water infrastructure is greater risk than coronavirus, says UN -- The Guardian (21 March 2020)
  
  
• Detroit suspends water shutoffs over Covid-19 fears -- The Guardian (12 March 2020)
  
  
• Amazon people turn to water tanks after environmental disaster [Ecuador] -- The Guardian (28 February 2020)
  
  
• 'Lost communities': thousands of wells in rural California may run dry -- The Guardian (28 February 2020)
  
  
• Everything you need to know about California's historic water law -- The Guardian (27 February 2020)
  
  
• 'Without water we can't grow anything': can California's small farms survive a new water law? -- The Guardian (27 February 2020)
  
  
• Colorado River flow shrinks from climate crisis, risking ‘severe water shortages’ -- The Guardian (20 February 2020)
  
  
• Wellington's water crisis deepens as pollution, leaks and flooding take toll -- The Guardian (19 February 2020)
  
  
• Washington state takes bold step to restrict companies from bottling local water -- The Guardian (18 February 2020)
  
  
• US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought -- The Guardian (22 January 2020)
  
  
• China Says It Will Ban Plastics That Pollute Its Land and Water -- The New York Times (20 January 2020)
  
  
• Walz: $293M needed to make water infrastructure more resilient to climate change -- MPRNews (10 January 2020)
  
  
• Woodbury takes emergency action to tackle water contamination -- MPRNews (10 January 2020)
  
  
• Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water -- The Guardian (10 January 2020)
  
  
• A 3-decade-long water dispute heads to the Supreme Court -- MPRNews (07 January 2020)
  
  
• Lethal algae blooms – an ecosystem out of balance -- The Guardian (04 January 2020)
  
  
• Water-related violence rises globally in past decade -- The Guardian (31 December 2019)
  
  
• Louisiana church filled a plane with holy water and blessed a whole community -- MPRNews (24 December 2019)
  
  
• Argentina: thousands protest in Mendoza wine region over axed water protections -- The Guardian (23 October 2019)
  
  
• Japan Wants to Dump Nuclear Plant’s Tainted Water. Fishermen Fear the Worst -- The New York Times (23 December 2019)
  
  
• 'Sugar overload' warning for festive hot drinks -- BBCNews (03 December 2019)
  
  
• Venice closes St Mark’s Square as floods hit for third time in week -- The Guardian (17 November 2019)
  
  
• Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness -- The Guardian (03 November 2019)
  
  
• Nairobi water: What's behind severe shortages? -- The Guardian (02 November 2019)
  
  
• Venezuela’s Water System is Collapsing -- The New York Times (19 October 2019)
  
  
• EPA sued for allowing slaughterhouses to pollute waterways -- The Guardian (18 October 2019)
  
  
• 'This will come back and bite us': water company and city officials knew about Flint lead risk -- The Guardian (10 October 2019)
  
  
• Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad -- The Guardian (06 October 2019)
  
  
• It takes 21 litres of water to produce a small chocolate bar. How water-wise is your diet? -- The Guardian (06 October 2019)
  
  
• Shipping Minnesota water to sate a thirsty world: Could it happen? -- MPRnews (05 November 2019)
  
  
• The World's Most Exquisite Chocolate [Peru] -- BBCtravel (17 September 2019)
  
  
• Tainted Water, Ignored Warnings and a Boss With a Criminal Past -- The New York Times (25 August 2019)
  
  
• US states face water crisis as global heating increases strain on supplies -- The Guardian (06 August 2019)
  
  
• A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises -- The New York Times (06 August 2019)
  
  
• In Zimbabwe, the Water Taps Run Dry and Worsen ‘a Nightmare’ -- The New York Times (01 August 2019)
  
  
• Luxury bottled water is absurd – so why is it so popular? -- The Guardian (16 July 2019)
  
  
• India’s Terrifying Water Crisis -- The New York Times (15 July 2019)
  
  
• In the land of El Dorado, clean water has become ‘blue gold’ [Colombia] -- The Guardian (09 April 2019)
  
  
• Blech! Brain science explains why you're not thirsty for salt water -- MPR News (27 March 2019)
  
  
• Climate change: Warming threatens Himalayan glaciers -- BBCNews (04 February 2019)
  
  
• Fast food giants under fire on climate and water usage -- BBCNews (29 January 2019)
  
  
• Why We Need Water Ethics -- David Groenfeldt, American Scientist (01 January 2019)
  
  
• Living Soil -- Top Documentary Films, Chelsea Wright, Director (60 min. 2018)
  
  
• Large hydropower dams 'not sustainable' in the developing world -- BBCNews (05 November 2018)
  
  
• Climate Change Maps and Visualizations -- Reuters (30 October 2018)
  
  
• Farmers in drought summit amid fears of food supply crisis -- The Guardian (28 July 2018)
  
  
• 'Swimming into the unknown:' Mexico's unmapped underwater caves - in pictures -- The Guardian (17 May 2018)
  
  
• Water shortages to be key environmental challenge of the century, Nasa warns -- The Guardian (16 May 2018)
  
  
• 'Day zero' water crises: Spain, Morocco, India and Iraq at risk as reservoirs shrink -- The Guardian (11 April 2018)
  
  
• Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns -- The Guardian (19 March 2018)
  
  
• Bolognese Hot Chocolate -- Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The Splendid Table, MPR
  
  
• Here Are the Places That Struggle to Meet the Rules on Safe Drinking Water -- The New York Times (12 February 2018)
  
  
• 'Gluten-free water" and other absurd labelling trends -- BBCcapital (27 January 2018)
  
  
• Warming, Water Crisis, Then Unrest: How Iran Fits an Alarming Pattern -- The New York Times (18 January 2018)
  
  
• The Simple River-Cleaning Tactics That Big Farms Ignore -- NationalGeographicNews (07 December 2017)
  
  
• Animal agriculture is choking the ​Earth and making us sick. We must act now. -- The Guardian (04 December 2017)
  
  
• Raw waste water use on farms is '50% higher' than estimated -- BBCNews (05 July 2017)
  
  
• 10 things to know about water in the United States -- Alison Burke, The Brookings Institution (21 March 2017)
  
  
• In American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works [A glass of water, courtesy of Wall Street — towns have turned to private equity to improve infrastructure, but it has come at a hefty price] -- The New York Times (24 December 2016)
  
  
• Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs -- BBCNews (23 December 2016)
  
  
• World’s oldest water gets even older -- BBCNews (14 December 2016)
  
  
• Water, Megacities, and Global Change (PDF) -- UNESCO / ARCEAU IdF (2016)
  
  
• Bottled Water or Tap: How Much Does Your Choice Matter? -- The New York Times (20 October 2016)
  
  
• The port city that lost its water -- BBCtravel (13 October 2016)
  
  
• The woman who is allergic to water -- BBCfuture (15 September 2016)
  
  
• Tiny plastic pollution may be more widespread in Great Lakes -- MPRNews (15 September 2016)
  
  
• 7,000-Year-Old Pits Found in Northern Israel Suggest Sophisticated Ancient Irrigation -- Jerusalem Post (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Surface water shifting around the Earth -- BBCNews (25 August 2016)
  
  
• The demise of the Maya civilization: Water shortage can destroy cultures -- ScienceDaily (23 August 2016)
  
  
• Teotihuacan, Mexico’s Pyramid City, Worshipped Water, Scholar Says -- Wall Street Journal (10 August 2016)
  
  
• Last woolly mammoths 'died of thirst' -- BBC News (02 August 2016)
  
  
• Last woolly mammoths 'died of thirst' -- BBCNews (02 August 2016)
  
  
• Woolly Mammoths' Demise Blamed on Freshwater Shortage -- Guardian (01 August 2016)
  
  
• Medieval Water Mills Caused Salmon Decline in North-Western Europe -- Past Horizons (20 July 2016)
  
  
• MN adds more than 300 lakes, streams to polluted water list -- MPRNews (13 July 2016)
  
  
• What is the secret of Burton snatch? -- BBC News (29 June 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Device for Determining Taxes Discovered in Egypt -- National Geographic News (18 May 2016)
  
  
• Sediments in Gulf of Naples reveal impact on Roman water distribution after Vesuvius eruption -- Phys.org (17 May 2016)
  
  
• In battle to keep lead from water, St. Paul digs deep-- MPRNews (25 May 2016)
  
  
• Saving Minnesota's polluted lakes takes science, political will -- MPRNews (20 May 2016)
  
  
• Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide -- MPRNews (18 May 2016)
  
  
• Random acts of conservation: Water quality depends on farmers' willingness, not regulation -- MPRNews (17 May 2016)
  
  
• India's dying mother -- BBCNews (12 May 2016)
  
  
• Water storage made prehistoric settlement expansion possible in Amazonia -- ScienceDaily (28 April 2016)
  
  
• How an Ancient Civilization Conserved Water -- ScienceDaily (08 April 2016)
  
  
• Before It Was Dangerous, Lead Was The Miracle Metal That We Loved -- NPR (06 April 2016)
  
  
• Large Variations in Precipitation Over the Past Millennium -- ScienceDaily (06 April 2016)
  
  
• Is India facing its worst-ever water crisis? -- BBCNews (27 March 2016)
  
  
• Why is this British company selling ice to Swedes? -- BBCCapital (18 March 2016)
  
  
• What makes water unsafe? Not the color, taste or smell -- MPRNews (10 March 2016
  
  
• Your most pressing water questions, answered -- MPRNews (10 March 2016)
  
  
• India caste unrest: 'Ten million without water' in Delhi -- BBCNews (22 February 2016)
  
  
• The Trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses -- Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine (February 2016)
  
  
• Meat Is Murdering American Rivers -- takepart (16 February 2016)
  
  
• They Knew: Michigan Officials Started Giving Clean Water to State Employees A Year Ago -- Nationofchange (29 January 2016)
  
  
• Flint Weighs Scope of Harm to Children Caused by Lead in Water -- The New York Times (29 January 2016)
  
  
• Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt -- Michael Moore (27 January 2016)
  
  
• Michigan governor calls National Guard to help in water crisis -- BBCNews (13 January 2016)
  
  
• In Peru water is a high price for Lima's poor -- BBCNews (09 October 2015)
  
  
• Protesters take aim at McDonald's, potato giant over water use, pesticides -- MPRNews (05 October 2015)
  
  
• After years of low rates, customers can expect to pay more for water -- MPRNews (29 September 2015)
  
  
• The water crisis is already here, struggling inches below our feet -- MPRNews (26 September 2015)
  
  
• Is this the real liquid gold? -- BBCNews (17 September 2015)
  
  
• Is sparkling water really bad for you? -- BBCFuture (14 September 2015)
  
  
• Navajo farmers reject use of water after mine spill -- AP (24 August 2015)
  
  
• Mpls. officials work to dampen distrust of tap water -- MPRNews (17 August 2015)
  
  
• Garden of Eden Dries As ISIS, Turkey and Iraq Fight Over Water -- New Scientist (22 July 2015)
  
  
• How much water does it take to grow a hamburger? -- U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey (13 July 2015)
  
  
• In farm country, tainted water is 'just the way it is' -- StarTribune (04 July 2015)
  
  
• Largest Freshwater Lake on Earth Was Reduced to Desert Dunes in Just a Few Hundred Years -- ScienceDaily (29 June 2015)
  
  
• Our Water-Guzzling Food Factory -- New York Times (30 May 2015)
  
  
• 'Droughtshaming' hopes to out California water cheats -- BBCNews (20 May 2015)
  
  
• California drought: Farms v households -- BBCNews (20 May 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Tech Could Help Solve Lima’s Water Crisis -- Smithsonian (10 April 2015)
  
  
• Kublai Khan Was a Notorious … Polluter -- Science (25 February 2015)
  
  
• The 18th Century Fur Trade Polluted Lake Superior's Shore With Mercury That's Never Gone Away -- Smithsonian (23 February 2015)
  
  
• Water and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire -- Past Horizons (12 December 2014)
  
  
• The Toxic Algae Are Not Done With Toledo. Not By a Long Stretch -- Tom Philpott, Mother Jones (6 August 2014)
  
  
• How Corporations are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage -- Carl Gibson, Nation of Change (1 August 2014)
  
  
• 'Mummy Lake' Used for Ancient Rituals, Not Water Storage -- LiveScience (28 April 2014)
  
  
• Ancient Rome's Tap Water Heavily Contaminated With Lead, Researchers Say -- Guardian (21 April 2014)
  
  
• California drought: Why farmers are 'exporting water' to China -- Alastair Leithead, BBCNews (18 February 2014)
  
  
• Peru's Farmers Fight Climate Change Using Modern and Inca Techniques -- Guardian (20 January 2014)
  
  
• Meat’s large water footprint: why raising livestock and poultry for meat is so resource-intensive -- FoodTank (December 2013)
  
  
• For bitterly divided Congress, $12.5 billion water bill a rare, unifying piece of legislation -- HENRY C. JACKSON , Associated Press, StarTribune (27 December 2013)
  
  
• Witch Doctors' Animal Sacrifices Pollute Water Supply -- Discovery News (05 September 2013)
  
  
• Fertilizer by-product an unhealthy, expensive risk to water quality -- Mark Steil, MPRNews (10 September 2013)
  
  
• How much water goes into producing our food and drink? - in pictures -- theguardian (23 August 2013)
  
  
• Water War Between Klamath River Farmers, Tribes Poised to Erupt -- Los Angeles Times (07 May 2013)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Chasing Water -- Pete McBride, Director, Bullfrog Films (18 min., 2011)
  

• 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.
  
  
• California Water Science Center -- USGS
  
  
• CDC TV -- Centers for Disease Control
  
  
• Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
  
  
• Drinking water quality guidelines -- World Health Organisation
  
  
• de Garine, Igor, and Valerie de Garine, (Eds.). Drinking: Anthropological Approaches. Anthropology of Food & Nutrition Series. NY: Berghahn, 2001.
  
  
• 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)]
  
  
• Environmental Ethics Case Studies -- American Physiological Society (APS)
  
  
• The Environmental Institute -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  
  
• Evironmental Protection Agency
  
  
  • Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air
    
  • Water Science
    
  
  
• European Environment Agency
  
  
• eWater Cooperative Research Centre -- Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Programme
  
  
• Food & Water Watch
  
  
• The Foods that Make Billions -- Top Documentary Films (177 min., 2010)

  The Foods that Make Billions -- BBC Two

  The Foods That Make Billions 1 - "Liquid Gold" [bottled water industry] (2010)

  The Foods That Make Billions 2 - "The Age of Plenty" [cereals] (2010) (alternate link) (alternate link)

  The Foods That Make Billions 3 -- "Pots of Gold" [yoghurt] YouTube

  OU on the BBC: The Foods That Make Billions [including episode guides and discussions and extras] -- Open University (flyer)

• Fraser, Evan D.G., and Andrew Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. NY: Free Press, 2010.
  
  
• 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 Desalination Association (IDA)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
  
  

• Morris, Robert. The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink. NY: Harper Collins, 2007.
  
  
• National Water Management Center
  
  
• National Water Quality Laboratory, Duluth, MN
  
  
• Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) -- UMD
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). Oxford University Press, 2015.
  

• New Mexico Waters -- University of New Mexico Libraries
  
  
• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Safina, Carl. Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1997.
  
  
• Schiefenhövel, Wulf, and Helen Macbeth, (Eds.). Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Anthropology of Food & Nutrition Series. NY: Berghahn, 2011.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Things get worse with Coke -- The Guardian (19 March 2004)
  
  
• International Rivers: The State of the World's Rivers -- International Rivers
  
  
• 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 -- United Nations
  
  
• EPA: Water -- United States Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• 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. EPA: Water -- United States Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• 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 -- UNESCO » Natural Sciences » Environment 
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Water Science -- Evironmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Waterworks Museum -- Boston
  
  
• Why Cleaned Wastewater Stays Dirty In Our Minds -- Alix Spiegel, National Public Radio (16 August 2011)
  
  
• Willermet, Cathy, et al. "Water as life, death, and power: Building an integrated interdisciplinary course combining perspectives from anthropology, biology, and chemistry." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 13.5 (2013): 106-124.
  
  
• World Food [and Water] Clock -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  
  
• The World of Water Quality -- United Nations GEMS/Water Programme
  • UNEP Global Environmental Monitoring System
    
    
• World Rivers Day -- Wikipedia
  
  
• World Water Council
  • World Water Forum
    
    
• World Water Day -- 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