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Water Links:

Glossary of Water Resource Terms

The World Water Links page:- Extensive.

Life Water Canada A very useful list of links.

The WEDC Web
The WEDC Web is a list of useful links to other development institutions and organizations.

The World Water Council
A comprhensive and well presented list of related links

The International Rivers Network - Linking Human Rights and Environmental Protection. The IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.

The Climate Ark is a Climate Change Portal and Internet Search Tool that provides access to a huge amount of reviewed climate change and alternative energy news and information.

World Bank WATSAN page. A whole bunch of resources on water supply and sanitation, poverty reduction, economics, utilities etc., etc.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

International Association for Environmental Hydrology

World Water Council: The International Water Policy Think Tank

Global Water Partnership: During recent years an international consensus has emerged on fundamental principles for water resources management. These principles were endorsed in 1992 at conferences on water and the environment in Dublin and Rio de Janeiro. To help translate these principles into practice the Global Water Partnership (GWP) was formally established at a founding meeting in Stockholm in August 1996. The Partnership is an international network open to all parties involved in water resources management, e.g. governments of developing as well as developed countries, UN agencies, multilateral banks, professional associations, research organisations, the private sector and NGO's

WATERMARK is the world-wide website for drinking water supply surveillance and monitoring in developing and transitional countries. The information available from this site contributes to the World Health Organization's 'Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality'. The development of the information included in the WATERMARK site was supported by DFID (UK) under its Knowledge and Research programme. The WATERMARK site is managed by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University in the UK.

The World’s Water, a site dedicated to providing up-to-date water information and data, and web connections to organizations, institutions, and individuals working on a wide range of global freshwater problems and solutions.

UCOWR
The Universities Council on Water Resources is a professional organization of universities united to encourage education and research in water resources ( history and goals ). UCOWR has over ninety member universities with over four hundred delegates. UCOWR convenes its annual conference every August. The organization is guided by a Board of Directors, a strategic plan, and By Laws, and a system of committees.

EnviroSoft
The Environmental & Related Software Distribution Center offer environmental and related software from various companies around the world. It is the mission of the Center to make Environmental Related Software readily available to as many users as possible.

LINKS ABOUT WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE

UNICEF's Water, environment and sanitation programme
http://www.unicef.org/wes/
UNICEF's first action in the area of water and sanitation was in response to a crippling drought that affected hundreds of villages in northern India in 1966. Since then, UNICEF has worked in more than 80 countries improving access to safe water and sanitation and promoting hygiene awareness.
This website includes statistics, information about the importance of hygiene, priorities and strategies, the role of woman and girls, UNICEF’s actions and news.

Water, Sanitation and Health (WHO)
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/
WHO works on aspects of water, sanitation and hygiene where the health burden is high, where interventions could make a major difference and where the present state of knowledge is poor: drinking water quality, bathing waters, water resource quality, water supply and sanitation monitoring, water, sanitation and hygiene development, water-related disease, wastewater use, healthcare waste, health in water resources development, emerging issues in water and infectious disease and household water treatment and safe storage.

Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and sanitation
http://www.wssinfo.org/
This WHO and UNICEF Programme’s website hosts information related to water supply and sanitation, two issues that concern every one of us on a daily basis and play a crucial role in our health and well-being. The website combines both general and specific information and provides a picture of the state of water supply and sanitation on different scales (global, regional and national). Information is presented in the form of short texts linked to tables, graphs and maps.

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
http://www.wsp.org/
WSP is an international partnership of the world's leading development agencies concerned with improving sector policies, practices and capacities to serve poor people. The goal is to alleviate poverty by helping the poor gain sustained access to water and sanitation services.
This website contains information about sanitation, health, and hygiene, the Millennium Development Goals, participation, gender, publications, news, jobs, links and events.

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
http://www.wsscc.org/home.cfm
WSSCC is a leading international organization that enhances collaboration in the water supply and sanitation sector to accelerate the achievement of sustainable water, sanitation and waste management services to all people, with special attention to the unserved poor, by enhancing collaboration among developing countries and external support agencies through concerted action programmes.
This website contains information about the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) campaign, events, activities, links and publications.

International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC)
http://www.irc.nl/
IRC's mission is to help poor people in developing countries to get the best water and sanitation services by emphasizing the introduction of communication, gender, participation, community management and affordable technologies into water and sanitation programmes.
The website has information about school sanitation and hygiene, projects, publications, news, events, vacancies and links.