Water Environment Issues

Water Environment Issues

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- Reports and articles from the Center for Free Market Environmentalism explain water marketing and its expected benefits.
- Coverage includes water supply, water quality, policy and legislation, litigation and water rights, conservation, climate, and international water news.
- A group of concerned citizens in Sainte-Marie-de-Kent area of New Brunswick in Canada are determined to stop a 10,000 pigs hog farm in their community. Provides information on issues, background and events.
- Coordinated national effort to encourage the formation of local, voluntary watershed partnerships and help assure that these partnerships successfully attain their goals. Provides information and resources.
- American Rivers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of North America's rivers.
- Information on a British Columbia watershed whose pure water supply is threatened by industrial logging.
- In this review of the challenges facing us in managing oceans, author Anne Platt McGinn examines the threats to our oceans and prescribes the steps we must take quickly to protect ocean health. .
- Provides the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with water resources development planning. Provides news, events, publications and resources.
- Clean Water Action Council of Northeastern Wisconsin provides information on activities to protect clean water on many issues.
- Wisconsin organization advocating expedient cleanup of contamination at Badger Army Ammunition Plant and to preserve and protect water resources. Description of current campaigns, media references, newsletter, and volunteer information included.
- Information about a September 2000 letter sent to the U.S. House Committee on Science by the Environmental Protection Agency that stated that tens of millions of Americans may be at risk from drinking fluoridated drinking water.
- Facilitates research for the water industry in the United Kingdom. Scope of work covers drinking water, sewage, sludge, treatment, and regulation.
- International awareness-raising event held on June 5. The theme for 2003 is "Water - Two Billion People are Dying for It!"
- Clean Water Fund, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, brings diverse communities together to work for changes that improve our lives, promoting sensible solutions for people and the environment.
- Provides valuable water conservation tips for Georgia landscaping, as well as suggestions for native drought-tolerant plants and Southern-style xeriscape designs.
- Advocates building a sea level canal to save the dying Salton Sea in opposition to several stopgap remedies proposed by the federal government.
- Ocean98 provides information and education on all aspects of the ocean. Offers facts, history, research and activities.
- Trains Nationals to drill safe drinking water wells and build water pumps (handpumps).
- Informal global network of business, government and civil society supporting, researching and promoting tri-sector partnerships that bring safe water and sanitation to the poor in developing countries. Research, policy documents, practitioner notes, news
- Portal offering news, discussion forums, and articles on U.S. water policy, corporate/water investments, water and wastewater finance issues, Indian water law, and water marketing. Includes links to NGOs, attorneys, government agencies, and other resource
- Information on beach pollution, water quality, and threats to the oceans and the life forms that inhabit them.
- Group of cottagers fighting for the protection of lakes and their natural environment. Site features several articles about lakes, jet skis, mosquitoes and sewage systems.
- Water for Life helps protect rural economies dependent upon irrigation water, and helps farmers and ranchers preserve the environment.
- A national citizens' organization working for clean, safe, and affordable water, and prevention of health-threatening pollution.
- Encourage stewardship for and sustainable use of all areas of the water environment. Provides information on projects, events and resources.
- Provides practical and technical information for people and communities interested in protecting and restoring urban watersheds.
- Watershed management project for the 1,100 square mile Raritan River Basin in central New Jersey.
- Nonprofit organization for the improvement of life in poor countries of the Americas, through the provision of water and sanitation services. Group raises funds to assist with creating water systems. Provides brochure and contact information.
- Offers several suggestions to save water.
- Cranfield University is a world leader in water treatment technology. As well as research and consultancy a number of postgraduate and professional development courses are run teaching people to a high standard ready for a career in the industry.
- Dedicated to providing clean drinking water to those in need. Provides description of services, reports, video clips and donation information.
- Describes a bulk carrier shipping accident during a storm and follow up environmental clean up and salvage.
- Waterwatch is a national forum of consumers, environmentalists, shareholders and individuals concerned about the water industry in the Anglian Water Region of the United Kingdom.
- A unique charity. It is the only one in the UK to specialise in just three things: water, sanitation and hygiene education.
- NSADP is one of the most controversial agricultural projects taking place in current history (map). Its implications far exceeds the boundaries of Egypt. It may lead to a water war between Egypt and other Nile riparian countries.
- Provides information on water issues including oceans, pollution, drinking water, everglades, conservation and restoration.
- Insight to role of water in conflict and co-operation. Water, politics, and conflict in the Middle East with a focus on the Jordan River basin. Section on (inter)national water law in general, conferences, articles.
- WWF, the conservation organization, is campaigning for radical reform of Europe's fisheries policy. Provides news and information on over fishing.
- Scientific and legal views about the problems with aquifer storage, recovery and deep well injection. Provides information about a proposal for Florida groundwater.
- An alliance of over 1000 organization that endorse our platform paper, the National Agenda for Clean Water. The Agenda outlines the need for strong clean water safeguards in order to protect public health and the environment.
- Effort to protect Buckhorn Mountain, in the Okanogan Highlands of Washington State, from an international gold company's proposal to contaminate our water for a pickup truck load of gold.
- A public awareness campaign calling for greater protection of the ocean through a network of fully protected marine reserves along the U.S. Pacific Coast.
- WIN is dedicated to preserving and protecting the health, environmental and economic gains that America's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure provides. Provides news and resources.
- Help people in the developing world achieve adequate supplies of potable drinking water, leading to better health and higher standards of living. Provides information about sponsors, partners, helping out, projects and events.
- A UN-wide program which seeks to achieve a better understanding of those basic processes, management practices, and policies that will help improve the supply and quality of global freshwater resources.
- Mercer and Auglaize Counties, Ohio. General and specific watershed information. Stream monitoring projects that let the public get involved. Includes a kids section for home activities.
- We link donors to high quality partner organizations that help communities design and construct their own sustainable water supply systems.
- NM Water Connections is a resource for all those interested in water issues in the state of New Mexico, providing the means to collaborate with other environmental groups to achieve common goals.

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