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WATER TABLE
Links/resources on water [work-in-progress]
updates for this table will be posted to water.re-configure.org
If you have suggestions, email hologramr [at] re-configure.org
Category
Region or
Medium
Date
Posted
Description
Link
2050 plan
Australia
Blueprint developed by Gosford City and Wyong Shire Councils for http://www.gosford.nsw.g
managing the Central Coast’s water resources over the next four
ov.au/water_and_sewer/w
decades.
ater-plan-2050
2050 plan
Germany
Inviting others to join in the discussion on the future of water
2050 plan
Arizona/Uni
ted States
Tucson Water’s Long Range Water Plan lays out the challenges and http://www.ci.tucson.az.us
opportunities we all face if we want to ensure a secure water future /water/waterplan.htm
for our families and ourselves. Below you will find links to the
entire 255 page document or individual chapters and articles.
Agriculture
Yemen
Qat consumes 37% of the water supply.
The government derives approximately 75% of its revenue from oil
exports, and it in turn has used this revenue to import its food. Why
were they not just growing their own food, you ask? The answer is
simple: qat. Qat is a plant with stimulant properties and it is chewed
compulsively by millions of men and women in Yemen on a daily
basis. It plays such an important role in everyday life that its
production, in 2008 anyway, was responsible for 6% of the GDP and
the employment of 14% of the population.
http://uk.reuters.com/articl
e/idUKLAE656628._CH_
.2420
&
http://www.desertlamp.co
m/?p=5144
&
http://www.commondrea
ms.org/headline/2010/02/
17-2
“Mapping of Integrity and Accountability in Water Activities and
Relevant Capacities in the SADC-Region”
http://www.siwi.org/docu
ments/Resources/Papers/P
AntiBotswana,
corruption/Integr Malawi,
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http://www.water2050.de
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ity
Mozambiqu
e, Namibia,
South Africa
and Zambia
Aquifer
US
Ogallala Aquifer March 2009:
http://www.scientificamer
The massive underground water source feeds the middle third of the ican.com/article.cfm?id=t
country but is disappearing fast. Can it be conserved? $20 billion a he-ogallala-aquifer
year in food and fiber depend on the aquifer
Arsenic
Bangladesh
More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis
http://www.physorg.com/
were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking
news196090774.html
water, new research reports. The large 10-year study is the first to
prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure
to arsenic and its associated mortality risk, the authors said. The
data, collected by an international team from Chicago, New York,
and Bangladesh, will be published early online Saturday in The
Lancet.
Arsenic
US
Arsenic in Drinking Water: Regulatory Developments and Issues
(May 1, 2007)
http://tr.im/QNqI
Arsenic
Bangladesh
Charles Harvey: Water Detective
Charles Harvey traces the source of widespread arsenic poisoning in
Bangladesh, setting the stage for programs that could benefit 20
million people.
http://www.millermccune.com/science/charl
es-harvey-waterdetective-20153
NASA scientists, aircraft and sensors will participate in an airborne
field campaign to study to atmospheric rivers -- narrow regions in
Earth's atmosphere that transport enormous amounts of water vapor
across the Pacific or other regions.
http://news.xinhuanet.com
/english2010/sci/201102/11/c_13727753.htm
Atmosphere
aper-12-SADC.pdf
Awareness
Global
Our Water Commons: Toward a New Freshwater Narrative (39 pg
PDF)
http://tr.im/RLL3
Awareness
Charity
Charity: Water NY Times promo
http://tr.im/Ru28
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Awareness
Movie
Middle East
Marathon filmed related to water awareness through Water.org. 111 http://runningthesahara.co
days and taken them through 6 countries: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, m
Niger, Libya, and Egypt. By the team's daily GPS record, they had
traveled over 4,300 miles (6,920 kilometers).
Awareness
Global
Small network of partners petitioning...and this water clock shows
an estimate that constantly updates of the population, those without
clean water, and those without basic sanitation.
http://www.watertreaty.or
g/index.php
Awareness/Event
The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and http://www.worldtoiletque
Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of
ue.org
campaigners from across the world to demand real change at the
meeting.
Awareness/fundr Web
aising
campaign
Peculiar concept to obtain funds
http://globalfast.org/
Awareness/WW Global
C
The Water Monitoring Alliance, an initiative of the World Water
Council, is made up of organisations involved in the collection,
analysis, reporting and dissemination of information on water in all
its uses.
http://www.watermonitori
ngalliance.net
Bank
Mexico
National water authority Conagua has opened a water bank in
http://tr.im/RE1F
Sinaloa state, the authority said in a release. The bank will offer
assessments in the administrative process of acquiring water rights
and feasibility studies, and will provide information about the supply
and demand for water in the area. The authority is now considering
creating a total of 13 such institutions, one for each water basin
authority in the country, according to Conagua’s northern Pacific
water basin organization head Jorge Miguel Ramírez Pérez.
Basin Council
US
Walla Walla Basin Water Council (Washington State, United States) http://www.wwbwc.org
Bioethanol
US
Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once
thought
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http://www.physorg.com/
news168689599.html
&
Full report
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Book reviews
Global
Bottled
Book reviews on water at PhiBetaIota.net, the public intelligence
blog
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/07/worth-a-lookbooks-on-water-andcivilization/
Non-commercial resource on the quality of bottled water and how it http://www.bottledwaterbl
compares to tap water and home water filtration. Owned by Doss
ues.com
Holdings, Inc. and managed by Charles Strand, CEO of Sun Water
and Author of "All About Water" and others involved in the water
quality and environmental field
Bottled
Animation
Animated story of bottled water
http://storyofbottledwater.
org
Bottled
Book
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled
Water by Peter Gleick
http://tr.im/Rs8g
Bottled
BPA
BPA in plastic bottled water
http://www.sciencedaily.c
om/releases/2009/05/0905
21141208.htm
Bottled
Global
“Think Outside the Bottle” is a campaign working to promote,
http://www.stopcorporatea
protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems.
buse.org/think-outsideWorking with public officials, faith groups, restaurants, celebrities, bottle/
campuses and individuals to support public systems by opting for tap
over bottled water.
Bottled
Graphic
Graphic: Bottled water imports and exports
http://tr.im/RtAI
Bottled
Pay article
“Risk assessment of heterotrophic bacteria from bottled drinking
water sold in Indian markets”
http://tr.im/RtqT
[Non-free article from: International Journal of Hygiene and
Environmental Health]
Bottled
Regulation
fewer regulations on bottled water than tap says GAO
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http://tr.im/RtWd &
http://tr.im/RtWs
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Bottled
True Cost
True cost of bottled water
http://tr.im/Ru5i
Bottled
Global/infographic
Info-graphic showing the corporatized world of water
http://images.huffingtonpo
st.com/2010-07-27bottledwater_500.png
Business Intel
Global
Global Water Intelligence is a monthly magazine about the business http://www.globalwaterint
of water. We aim to do two things for our readers:
el.com/home/

tell you where your next dollar is coming from by tracking
major water projects around the world from conception to
contract award

discuss with you the emerging trends in the industry to help
you formulate strategy in a rapidly changing world
Change over
Time
Photos
NASA Satellite Photos Capture a Decade of Land and Water
Changes
http://tr.im/RtUV
Clean-up
China
Successful clean-up of China water
http://www.worstpolluted.
org/projects_reports/displ
ay/75
Cleanliness
Data US
degree of cleanliness of U.S. drinking water
http://www.good.is/post/T
ransparency-How-CleanIs-Your-Tap-Water
Colorado River
US
Lower Colorado River Authority
http://www.lcra.org
Commercial
document
A revealing aspect to this Proctor & Gamble/USAID document:
I searched through the whole document using the term "rain" in
order to find rainwater and found nothing. The closest terms that
came up were training and drainage. Training came up over and
over and over, yet with all the training, no mention of how or why
to harvest rainwater. This is incredible. Only locals who attended
their training and promotional gatherings mentioned rainwater, but
http://www.ehproject.org/
PDF/ehkm/gda2010.pdf
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Impressive video demo
Main Website: Children's
Safe Drinking Water
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not for water harvesting. The entire document focuses on promotion
of "PUR" to clean dirty water.
Commercial
Flash video
Proctor & Gamble commercial
http://www.wbcsd.org/we
b/stream/sl/procter/pur.ht
ml
Companies
(largest)
Lists
Two of the largest water companies in the world, Veolia and Suez.
Veolia:
http://www.veoliawater.co
m
&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Veolia
Suez:
http://www.suezenvironnement.com
&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Suez_(company)
Company
Global
Company/filtrati US
on
Water Health International
http://www.waterhealth.co
m
(Needs further verification) This company claims: There are 35,000 http://www.freedrinkingw
pesticides containing 600 chemical compounds. Yet municipal water ater.com/watersystems are only required to test for six. (NY Times claims “91
purification-need.htm
contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet
more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States,
according to EPA estimates.” The General Accounting Office
reports that 20% of the nation's 65,000 community systems are
unable to meet minimum standards set by the Safe Drinking Water
Act. More than 700 organic chemicals have been identified in
drinking water, and some of them are suspected cancer causing
agents. A recent government study found that more than 25% of all
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large U.S. public water systems contain traces of one or more toxic
substances. ... Public water systems do not test for the carcinogens
and other dangerous chemicals that are being found.
Conflict
Audio
Few audio segments on water issues from 2002-2005
http://www.theconnection.
org/?s=water+series
Conflict
Canada
Conflicts over Canadian resources
http://www.waterwarcrim
es.com
Conflict
Global
World Water Conflict Chronology by the Pacific Institute
http://worldwater.org/conf
lict.html
Conservation/aw United
areness
States
Claims “36 States anticipate water shortages by 2013.”
http://savewateramerica.c
om
Conservation/Hi U.S.
gh tech
New Street-Smart Fire Hydrants Use High Tech Equipment to
Conserve Water
http://cleantechnica.com/2
010/06/27/new-streetsmart-fire-hydrants-usehigh-tech-equipment-toconserve-water/
Consumption
Feb 2009 China pledges to get wealthier with less water
http://www.nature.com/ne
By 2020, China wants to reduce water-use per unit of gross domestic ws/2009/090219/full/news
product (GDP) by 60%. The plan was announced last weekend –
.2009.111.html
amid the country's worst drought for half a century –
by the water-resources minister Chen Lei in the administration's
annual national conference
in Guilin, Guangxi province.
China
Container/Transp
ort
Contamination
Spragg & Associates is a worldwide group of over 50 corporations, http://www.waterbag.com
groups and individuals (including engineers from M.I.T.), who have
spent the past fifteen years developing and testing waterbag
technology in order to deliver large quantities of fresh water
throughout the oceans of the world.
Arsenic/
Bangladesh relies heavily on groundwater for the irrigation of dry-
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://www.nature.com/ng
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Bangledesh
season rice. However, the groundwater used for irrigation often
contains high concentrations of arsenic, potentially jeopardizing the
future of rice production in the country.
eo/journal/v3/n1/full/ngeo
723.html
Contamination
Arsenic/
Bangledesh
2009 Bangledesh arsenic water field tests("Poisoned backwaters")
http://www.nature.com/ng
eo/journal/v3/n1/full/ngeo
727.html
Contamination
China Map
China river pollution grades map
http://tr.im/RtXI
Contamination
New
Mexico
Radioactive run off in New Mexico
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/?p=15403
Contamination
US
U.S. water contaminant project from the NY Times
http://projects.nytimes.co
m/toxicwaters/contaminants &
series
http://projects.nytimes.co
m/toxic-waters
Contamination
Video
Frontline video “Poisoned Waters”
http://tr.im/RtTZ
Contamination/a South Africa
cid mine
drainage
Feb 2010: A public private partnership (PPP) between South Africa's http://tr.im/RZ5G
Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and mining companies has
been established to formulate a collaborative solution to the acid
mine drainage (AMD) problem in the Witwatersrand gold fields
area, which is affecting the western, central, and eastern basins, and
impacting the Vaal and Crocodile River systems.
Contamination/D Global
etection
"You just need to find out which living creatures, e.g. insects and
http://www.sciencedaily.c
crabs, are found at a certain point along the river and in what
om/releases/2009/09/0909
numbers," Liess explains. The authorities responsible for water
04071905.htm
management usually have such data available, he adds. Liess and his
colleagues have now set up a Web application where this data can be
entered and evaluated to show immediately how high the level of
pollution in the rivers under investigation actually is.
Contamination/D Spain
Robot fish to detect pollution
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http://www.reuters.com/ar
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etection
ticle/idUSTRE52J1RY20
090320
Contamination/fe China
rtilizer
Farmers using 40% more fertilizer than needed report by Renmin
University in China and Greenpeace
Contamination/le US
achate
Maine – 'leachate' (medications in liquids from landfills into river
http://tr.im/RMku
water, could affect other states) reported by Maine Department of
Environmental Qualit...wastewater treatment facilities in Maine are
not equipped to remove medical contaminants from the liquid from
toilet flushing, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) argue that amounts are too small to be serious,
Office of National Drug Control Policy has issued suggestions on
how to safely dispose of unused prescriptions or expired medications
Contamination/m
icro/nano
Eawag Aquatic Research: Worldwide, around 11,000 new
http://www.eawag.ch/med
substances are registered every day...and nanoparticles, which – in a ien/bulletin/20090623/ind
rapidly expanding market – are already found in over 800 products. ex_EN
Contamination/P Nigeria
etroleum
Nigeria - One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters of water
http://www.circleofblue.or
undrinkable. Amnesty reported that residents in the Niger Delta
g/waternews/2009/world/
drink water contaminated with oil. Additionally, a half-century of
war-on-water/
petroleum pollution decimated fish populations that were the
primary source of protein for these communities for generations.
According to a May 2006 joint study by the Nigerian Federal
Ministry of Environment, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation and
several environmental organizations, 9 million to 13 million barrels
have spilled during the history of oil production in the Niger Delta
— the equivalent of a spill the size of the Exxon Valdez every year
for the last fifty years. Shell says that “about half [of its worldwide]
total volume spilled in 2008 was caused by one sabotage incident in
Nigeria, where a large pipeline was damaged by explosives.”
Contamination/S Kenya
lums
Kibera's Soweto East Village in Nairobi -- considered to be the
world's second largest urban slum. There are no official population
figures, but Kibera is thought to be home to as many as a million
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://tr.im/RMmw
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi
bin/blogs/gleick/detail?blo
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people: 25% of Nairobi's population, on 1% of the land (and
there is almost a complete lack of piped safe water and no
formal sanitation).
gid=104&entry_id=59590
Corruption
Alerts
International Water and Sanitation Centre (anti-corruption alerts)
http://www.irc.nl
Corruption
Peru
January 2010: Head of Peru’s main water utility resigns over
corruption allegations
http://tr.im/R1s6
Corruption
Global
Global Corruption in the Water Sector 2008 report
http://www.transparency.o
rg/publications/gcr/gcr_20
08
Corruption Anti
Afghanistan
Direct grants to a village council in Jurm, Badakshan province have
reduced corruption and helped the community set up and manage
their
own water system and to introduce education for girls. This
development model of providing small grants, often less than US$
100,000 (€ 70,000), to Community Development Councils (CDCs),
has been replicated in thousands of other villages as part of
Afghanistan’s
National Solidarity Programme, set up in 2003. Five years later, in
the village of Fargamanch 3,270 families have taps for clean
drinking
water near their homes, reducing waterborne diseases.
http://tr.im/RtNY
Credit
Global
The WaterCredit Initiative represents the creation of a new space at
the intersection of water and sanitation and microfinance.
http://water.org/watercredi
t/
Crisis
Global/vide
o
UN Human Development Report videos on water and sanitation
http://hdr.undp.org/en/me
Footage from: Nairobi, Kenya / West Bank, Palestinian Territories / diacentre/videos/2006/
China/ New Delhi, India / Colombia / Pretoria, South Africa /
Kinshasa, Congo
Crisis
Middle East
Lack of Mid-East peace deepens water crisis
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/lo
w/in_depth/8302161.stm
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Dam
Brazil
Brazil will go ahead with the construction of a controversial
hydroelectric dam in the Amazon forest. It has been estimated that
thousands of the indigenous populations in the area would be
displaced.
http://tr.im/RtOG
Dam
Cambodia
Engineers without Borders Cambodia dam project
http://www.humantranslat
ion.org/project_dam.html
Dam/River
Middle East
Dams, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Kurdistan connections to regional water
supplies
http://tr.im/RYFk
Desalination
Iraq
$20M water desalination project in Iraq
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/?p=16824
Desalination
Solar thermal desalination, “water generation modules” and the
“watercone” (found in the book “Design like You Give a Damn”)
http://www.magewatermanagement.com
Desalination/org Global
anization
International Desalination Association: GWI/IDA Global Water
Summit 2010 Transforming the World of Water. Co-sponsored by
IDA, the Summit will take place April 26-27 in Paris, France, at the
Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center.
http://www.idadesal.org
Drought/manage Book
ment
Browse inside the book here This nonfiction narrative set in the
Encyclopedia
Global
Info source
http://www.waterencyclop
edia.com
Engineers
US
US Army Corps of Engineers list of services includes: Owns and
operates more than 600 dams. Operates and maintains 12,000 miles
of commercial inland navigation channels.
http://tr.im/R6SG
http://www.heartofdryness
Kalahari dramatizes the timeless struggle over water, the fulcrum .com
of political power. Facing drought, scarcity and climate change
the besieged indigenous Bushmen use voluntary survival
strategies while Botswana’s government enforces regulatory rule.
Their rivalry foreshadows our world, where two in three thirsty
humans will soon endure shortages, resource conflict, a $900
billion market, and a global fight for water as a human right.
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Event
U.S.
Event
The Intelligent Use of Water™ Summit - Led by an impressive
http://www.rainbird.com/c
panel of representatives from city and state municipalities and water orporate/IUOW/summits.
agencies that excel in implementing effective landscape water
htm
efficiency and conservation programs, the 11th Intelligent Use of
Water Summit focused on providing greater insight into the water
conservation policies and legislation, programs, initiatives and
trends that ultimately steer city and state-wide efforts to reduce
outdoor water waste.
3/11/201 Singapore International Water Week June 28-July 2, 2010
0
http://www.siww.com.sg
Event
World
Water
Forum
Facebook advocacy for the UN to host the next World Water Forum http://tr.im/RtFR
to control excessive corporate influence
Event
World
Water
Forum-Iraq
2003: The world's forgotten crisis/3rd World Water Forum
Events in Iraq may limit media coverage of the 3rd World Water
Forum to mere footnote status. "Our discussions will have far more
effect on humankind in the twenty-first century than the current
crisis in the Middle East," claims William Cosgrove, vice-president
of the World Water Council, a think-tank dedicated to improving
water resources. But the forum's organizers must know that there is
little hope of gaining firm commitments from nations that are
focused on war.
Event
Asia
“ASIA'S NO.1 WATER & WASTEWATER INDUSTRY EVENT “ http://www.asiawater.org/
index.htm
Event listing
Global
2010 and past event listings
Events
list
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://www.nature.com/na
ture/journal/v422/n6929/f
ull/422251a.html
http://www.swa.org.sg/ev
ents.php
many listed at
http://www.waterintegrity
network.net
&
http://www.mdpi.com/aja
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x/events/water
&
international programs at
http://www.irc.nl/page/36
916
Federal
US
List/links to resources for United States Federal agencies that have a http://www.waterwebster.
relationship to water
com/federal_framebottom.
htm
Filter
Global
Nano-tech teabag filter
http://www.good.is/post/a
-nanotech-teabagdelivers-potable-waterfor-less-than-a-cent/
Filter/carbon
Global
Portable Carbon-filter Water Bottle
http://www.good.is/post/b
ehold-the-portablecarbon-filter-water-bottle/
Filters
Peru
Providing clean water with Bio-sand filters
http://practicalaction.org/s
upportus/community_info
Filtration
Global
Water filter for the individual level
http://www.lifestraw.com
Filtration/Sound US
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
http://www.technologyrev
iew.com/blog/arxiv/25400
Acoustic trapping can remove bacterial spores from water, according /
to a new set of experiments funded by the U.S. Army.
Using Sound to Filter Bacterial Spores from Water
Flood plain
Bangladesh
+ India
2003: Living on the flood plain of three great rivers, the people of
http://www.nature.com/na
Bangladesh endure floods, drought, water-borne disease and much
ture/journal/v422/n6929/f
else besides. the issues are overlaid by fractious
ull/422254a.html
regional politics. For decades, Bangladesh has been in dispute with
its neighbours — particularly India — over their management of the
rivers that drain into Bangladeshi territory.
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Fluoride
US
U.S. says too much fluoride in water (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/
yourlife/health/medical/20
11-01-07-too-muchfluoride_N.htm
Food
US
U.S FOOD (relation to water-use) Top 5 agriculture commodities,
2008
Value of receipts thousand $ Percent of US total value
1. Corn 51,550,748 15.9%
2. Cattle and calves 48,189,205 14.9%
3. Dairy products 34,772,735 10.7%
4. Soybeans 29,058,111 9.0%
5. Broilers 23,112,184 7.1%
All commodities 324,186,533
http://www.ers.usda.gov/S
tateFacts/US.htm#TCEC
State by State data at
http://www.ers.usda.gov/
Data/StateExports
Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2008
Value million $
1. Soybeans and products 19,331.9
2. Feed grains and products 18,147.5
3. Wheat and products 14,836.0
4. Other 12,681.1
5. Live animals and meat 9,454.6
Overall rank 115,451.5
Footprint
Footprint
Global
handbook
Water footprint Manual (2009)
Global
Water Footprints of Nations, “
Footprint/Networ Global
k
http://www.waterfootprint
.org/downloads/WaterFoo
tprintManual2009.pdf
The mission of the Water Footprint Network is to promote the
transition towards sustainable, fair and efficient use of fresh water
resources worldwide by:
i. advancing the concept of the ‘water footprint’, a spatially and
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://waterfootprint.org
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temporally explicit indicator of direct and indirect water use
of consumers and producers;
ii. increasing the water footprint awareness of communities,
government bodies and businesses and their understanding of
how consumption of goods and services and production
chains relate to water use and impacts on fresh-water
systems; and
iii. encouraging forms of water governance that reduce the
negative ecological and social impacts of the water footprints
of communities, countries and businesses.
Forecast
Global
Global water outlook to 2025
http://www.ifpri.org/publi
cation/global-wateroutlook-2025
Foundation
Foundation to address water shortages and urgent threats (former
Google.org guy & eBay prez)
Http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/04/15/us/15foundati
on.html?_r=2&hp
FundUS
raising/Organizat
ion
UNICEF Tap Project: In 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project was born in http://www.tapproject.org
New York City based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask
their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually
enjoy for free, and all funds raised would support UNICEF’s efforts
to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the
world.Growing from just 300 New York City restaurants in 2007 to
thousands across the country today, the UNICEF Tap Project has
quickly become a powerful national movement.
Gas Drilling
Threat
Natural gas drilling in New York threatening water
http://waterunderattack.co
m now found at
http://www.gasland.us
movie &
http://www.gasland.us/wp
Geopolitics
Middle East
Politics and policies affecting development with The Jordan River
basin is the focus area of this website.
http://www.waternet.be
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Globalization
Ghana
Dutch company installed control panels flying in experts from South http://tr.im/RMoR
Africa, pump breakdown
Gov
US
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and
Power
http://tr.im/R5gm
Gov/managemen Singapore
t
PUB is a statutory board under the Ministry of the Environment and http://www.pub.gov.sg
Water Resources. It is the water agency that manages Singapore's
water supply, water catchment and sewerage in an integrated way.
PUB won the 2007 Stockholm Industry Water Award and was
named Water Agency of the Year at the Global Water Awards 2006.
Governance
China
Ministry of the Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of http://english.sepa.gov.cn/
China
#
Governance
US
EPA Information Related to the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009
Governance
US
US Subcommittee on Water and Power: Jurisdiction of the
http://tr.im/R5gm
Subcommittee includes oversight and legislative responsibilities for:
irrigation; reclamation projects, including related flood control
purposes; power marketing administrations (e.g., Bonneville Power,
Southwestern Power, Western Area Power, Southeastern Power);
energy development impacts on water resources; groundwater
resources and management; hydroelectric power; low head hydro;
and energy related aspects of deepwater ports.
Governance
US
US Bureau of Reclamation Water Operations
Governance
Book
Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local http://tr.im/RlQJ & 25 pg
Politics of Water (American and Comparative Environmental
sample at
Policy)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/bo
oks/chapters/0262013134
chap1.pdf
Governance/cons Philippines
ervation
http://www.epa.gov/water
/eparecovery
http://www.usbr.gov/main
/water
dwindling supplies = conserve [no mention of rainwater harvesting] http://www.senate.gov.ph/
press_release/2010/0218_l
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egarda2.asp
Governance/mon Malaysia
itoring
Malaysia - demand for water doubles every two decades or so even
though rainfall remains the same, said Ir Mohmad Asari Daud,
secretary-general of the Council for Water and Green Technology
Professionals (PROATEK).
http://www.bernama.com/
bernama/v5/newsgeneral.
php?id=476366
Government
Data
GAO report: Energy-Water Nexus: Improvements to Federal Water
Use Data Would Increase Understanding of Trends in Power Plant
Water Use
http://www.gao.gov/produ
cts/GAO-10-23
Graphic
Global
Beyond just the water-energy nexus is all the other aspect of world
society
http://tr.im/RLun
Graphic
Global
Graphic: Water-Centric Holistic Analysis
http://tr.im/RLuf
Gray water/storm NYC
water
An ongoing call for designs that respond to the question: How can
New York City utilize its existing 6,000 miles of roadway and
accompanying 12,000 miles of sidewalk as an opportunity for
stormwater management?
http://mindsinthegutter.or
g
Great Lakes
US
Chicago Asian carp threatening Great Lakes species
http://tr.im/RMl5
Great Lakes
North
America
The Great Lakes Commission is an interstate compact agency that
promotes the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development,
use and conservation of the water and related natural resources of
the Great Lakes basin and St. Lawrence River. Its members include
the eight Great Lakes states with associate member status for the
Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec. Each jurisdiction
appoints a delegation of three to five members comprised of senior
agency officials, legislators and/or appointees of the governor or
premier.
http://www.glc.org/about
Grey water
California
Groundwater
Satellite/Indi
a
http://greywateraction.org
Satellite data show Indian water stocks shrinking
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://www.nature.com/ne
ws/2009/090812/full/4607
89a.html
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Groundwater
Satellite/Indi
a/groundwat
er
Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in northwestern http://www.nature.com/na
India reported by Matthew Rodell and colleagues (Nature 460, 999– ture/journal/v462/n7271/f
1002; 2009) should be backed up with precise ground-based
ull/462276d.html
information for the whole of India, taking into account regional
variations in rock types, aquifers and watersheds. This will help to
ensure effective local remedial action.
Groundwater
loss
California
NASA Data Reveal Major Groundwater Loss in California
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/n
ews/news.cfm?release=20
09-194
Groundwater
map
Global
World’s groundwater mapped
http://www.whymap.org
Health
Africa
Nearly half of the population of the developing world suffers from
http://www.nature.com/na
diseases associated with the inadequate provision of clean water.
ture/journal/v456/n1s/full/
The problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa, where there twas08.39a.html
are an estimated 1.2 billion incidences of diarrhoea annually,
leading to the deaths of some 770,000 children less than 5 years old.
In sub-Saharan Africa, moreover, urban and peri-urban farmers, who
depend on wastewater to grow their crops, produce 70–90% of the
perishable vegetables consumed in African cities.
Health
Research
British Medical Journal found that clean water and sanitation
comprised the most important medical advancement since 1840.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
health/6275001.stm
History/Clean
Water Act
U.S./timelin
e
A brief history of the clean water act from PBS.org
http://www.pbs.org/now/s
cience/cleanwater.html
History/Filtration Global
The Past, Present, and Future of Water Filtration Technology
http://www.historyofwater
filters.com/clean-wateract.html
Human right
Global
Pacific Institute (The Human Right to Water)
http://www.pacinst.org/re
ports/basic_water_needs/
Human Right
Canada
Fight to pressure Canadian gov to recognize water as a human right
+ "According to sources," about 90 Canadians die every year from
http://www.toboc.com/tra
denews/Canadians-Urge-
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water-borne diseases
Export-Ban-And-HumanRight-Status-ForWater/1468.aspx
Hydrogeological
Map
World-wide Hydro-geological Mapping and Assessment Programme http://www.whymap.org
(WHYMAP)
Hydropower
Chile
Chile and hydropower (powers 40% of the electricity) Pascua and
Baker, two of the most remote and cleanest rivers in the world. $5
billion project to construct five large dams would cut through
temperate forests but add potentially 20% power (60% total hydro
power) the environmental evaluation process for the HidroAysén
projects is now on its third revision since 2006—having been
bounced from project engineers to government officials to local
advocacy groups, and back again. The final decision now lies in the
hands of the Aysén Regional Environmental Authority, COREMA.
http://tr.im/RE24
Imagery/map
Water to land percentage map from NASA
http://wwwsurf.larc.nasa.gov/surf/pag
es/water.html
Industry
April 01, 2010 - In the first study of its kind in 30 years, scientists
say they have documented industry's use of water resources in the
United States. The scientists said they estimated water use among
more than 400 industrial sectors and discovered most water use
occurs indirectly as a result of processing, such as packaging and
shipping food crops to the supermarket, rather than direct use, such
as watering crops. Among the findings for consumer products: It
takes 200 gallons of water to make $1 worth of dog or cat food, 270
gallons to place $1 worth of sugar on store shelves and 140 gallons
of water to make $1 worth of milk.
http://www.upi.com/Scien
ce_News/2010/04/01/Stud
y-documents-USindustrial-water-use/UPI96641270150022/?pvn=1
Info-Graphic
Info-Graphic: 10 Things You Should Know About Water
http://www.circleofblue.or
g/waternews/2009/world/i
nfographic-ten-thingsyou-should-know-about-
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water/
Info-graphic
Seven info-graphics (GoogleEarth, too) on water use, shortages,
bottled, irrigation, and cholera.
http://www.circleofblue.or
g/waternews/tag/visualizat
ions
InfoUS/wiki
sharing/Watershe
d
Share your best practices, case studies and lessons learned;
http://www.epa.gov/water
shedcentral/wiki.html







See what other watershed organizations are up to & learn
from them;
Identify partners in your watershed area;
Rate and comment on watershed management tools or report
on new tools;
View a map with water monitoring stations, land use types,
watershed boundaries, high-resolution aerial photography,
and more for your watershed;
Publish your watershed management plan for others to learn
from;
Create a page about your organization, add a map, and share
it amongst members of your group; and
Build the community knowledgebase for more effective
watershed management and implementation!
Information
Austria
Austria water resource
http://www.aquamedia.at/t
emplates/index.cfm
Information
Book
Reviews
Book reviews on water and civilization
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/?p=20160
Information
Africa
The Water Page is an independent initiative dedicated to the
promotion of sustainable water resources management and use. A
particular emphasis is placed on the development, utilisation and
protection of water in Africa and other developing regions.
http://www.africanwater.o
rg
Information
Global
Water Conserve is a Water Conservation Portal dedicated to
http://www.waterconserve
protecting and conserving drinking water and ecosystems worldwide .org
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- with a genuine Internet water search engine, constant water news
and link tracking, and biocentric commentary.
Global Policy Forum – Water In Conflict
http://www.globalpolicy.o
rg/the-dark-side-ofnatural-resources/waterin-conflict.html
Global
Great resource from how much water is used to grow crops versus
meat, many videos, and links to a ton of other resources.
http://waterfortheages.org/
water-what-you-eat &
check out the Photos on
water at
http://www.flickr.com/ph
otos/waterfortheages/with/
4104625371/
Information/Acti Global
vism
The End Water Poverty campaign is demanding that governments
provide sanitation and water for the world's poorest people. We are
calling for:
http://www.endwaterpove
rty.org
Information
Information



One global action plan for sanitation and water monitored by
one global task force
70% of aid money for sanitation and water to be targeted at
the poorest countries
Water resources to be protected and shared equitably
We want rich governments to ensure good water and sanitation plans
in developing countries do not fail due to inadequate financing, and
we want developing countries to commit to implementing these
plans.
Information/orga Global
nization
World Health Organization's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene page
http://www.who.int/water
_sanitation_health/en/
Infrastructure
From America2050.org
http://www.america2050.
org/water.html
U.S.
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Infrastructure
Video/US
Infrastructure
US
“Liquid Assets” Video from Penn State University
Wastewater Infrastructure Financing: Stakeholder Views on a
National Infrastructure Bank and Public-Private Partnerships
http://liquidassets.psu.edu
http://www.gao.gov/produ
cts/GAO-10-728
Innovation
Asia
August 2009: Innovation urged for water management in Asia
http://www.nature.com/ne
Asian irrigation systems require urgent reform, according to a report ws/2009/090817/full/news
published on 18 August by the International Water Management
.2009.826.html
Institute in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, together with the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other partner
groups.
Irrigation reform needed in Asia (also by the International Water
Management Institute)
73% of the water consumed globally for agriculture is used in
Asia.
Innovation
Disinfection
disinfecting using light
http://www.technologyrev
iew.com/biomedicine/244
15/
Innovation
Government
New Mex water innovation fund since 2004-present (pdf)
http://tr.im/QYZW
Innovation
New York
River
Sensors
IBM & Beacon Institute Hudson River sensors the Beacon Institute
for Rivers and Estuaries is working with IBM to deploy the River
and
Estuary Observatory Network (REON), with floating sensors along
the Hudson River
http://tr.im/REl4
Innovation
Seawater
worlds first seawater farm: “What we do (& have been doing for
over 30 years) is grow plants directly on seawater.”
http://www.seawaterfound
ation.org/sea_eritrea.html
Innovation
Urban
less water + beads for washing clothes? Claims to reduce energy
http://tr.im/Rtrf
costs by 30%, but how will it affect fabric (friction) and how can this
apply to laundromats in large cities?
Innovation
Wireless
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Wireless irrigation control units have been http://tr.im/Rtvp
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New
Mexico
installed on all of Rio Rancho's parks and recreational facilities as
part of a new water conservation initiative. The control units will
allow the city to delay or stop watering cycles when its windy or
raining by simply calling a phone number and entering a code. The
city purchased 55 irrigation control units from Albuquerque-based
Contact Wireless. The equipment supplied by the company was
developed through a $500,000 award from Gov. Bill Richardson's
Water Innovation Fund.
Innovation
Wireless
Meters,
NYC
New York City 2008 Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report.
http://nyc.gov/html/dep/ht
One interesting piece = “There is a citywide automated meter
ml/drinking_water/wsstate
reading network. The systems consist of small, low-power radio
.shtml
transmitters connected to individual water meters that send readings
to a network of rooftop receivers throughout the city.” (these began
to be installed winter 2009...800,000 are planned).
Innovation
Wireless
Rio Rancho
Wireless irrigation control units installed on all of Rio Rancho's
parks and recreational facilities
http://tr.im/Rtvp
Innovation/Detec Natural
tion
Clams used to detect pollution in waterways
http://www.sciencedaily.c
om/videos/2009/0110clam_cleanup.htm
Innovation/infor Global
mation
IBM’s “Smarter Planet” Water Management Ideas
http://www.ibm.com/smar
terplanet/us/en/water_man
agement/ideas/index.html
?re=spf
Innovation/mana Global/repor
gement
t
IBM Global Innovation Outlook report on water management (64
pages)
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/
gio/media/pdf/ibm_gio_w
ater_report.pdf
Irrigation
“I witnessed first-hand how advice that recommended a
http://tr.im/RDJv
comprehensive framework of interventions to cover all types of
irrigation was ignored largely in favor of one fashion; treadle-pump
irrigation.” They continue later saying “..the right irrigation has been
so difficult to deliver that for the last
Africa
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20-25 years donors have largely kept clear of funding irrigation
infrastructure or have seen poor returns to millions invested.”
Irrigation
US
irrigation withdrawals for U.S. only go up to year 2000 in these links http://ga.water.usgs.gov/e
with state to state stats on irrigation amounts and type of irrigation
du/wuir.html
&
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2
004/circ1268/htdocs/table
07.html
Irrigation
US
Irrigated acreage increased from 25M acres in 1950 to 58M acres in
1980, then remained fairly constant before increasing in 2000 and
2005 to more than 60M acres. The number of acres irrigated using
sprinkler and microirrigation systems has continued to increase and
in 2005 accounted for 56 percent of the total irrigated acreage. Acres
irrigated with surface
(flood) irrigation systems declined by 10 percent, from 29.7M acres
in 2000 to 26.6M acres in 2005. Acres irrigated with sprinkler
irrigation systems increased almost 7 percent, from 28.5M acres in
2000 to 30.5M acres in 2005. Five States—California, Nebraska,
Texas, Arkansas, and Idaho—accounted for 52 percent of total
irrigated acreage. Nebraska, Texas, and California accounted for 41
percent of the irrigated acreage using sprinkler and microirrigation
systems. California alone accounted
for 65 percent of the irrigated acreage with microirrigation systems.
Sprinkler and microirrigation systems combined were associated
with more than 56 percent of total irrigated acreage.
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1
344/pdf/c1344.pdf
In July 2009, in the
closing moments of the
G8 meeting in Italy,
President Obama
responded to a question
from the floor regarding
investments in Africa to
tackle food security and
poverty. His answer:
There is no reason why
Africa cannot be self
sufficient when it comes
to food. It has sufficient
arable land. What's
lacking is the right seeds,
the right irrigation, but
also the kinds of
institutional mechanisms
that ensure that a farmer is
going to be able to grow
crops, get them to market,
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get a fair price.
President Obama, G8,
Italy, 10 July 2009
Irrigation/organi
zation
Irrigation/Use
US
The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) was
established on 24 June, 1950 as a Scientific, Technical and Voluntary Notfor-profit Non-Governmental International Organization (NGO) with
headquarters in New Delhi, India.
http://www.icid.org
US Department of Agriculture Briefing Room on irrigation and
water use
http://www.ers.usda.gov/b
riefing/WaterUse/
Irrigation/wealth Video
Cheap drip irrigation system brought to Paul Polak's talk on his book http://fora.tv/2008/04/14/P
“Out of Poverty”and mentions $50 water kiosks in test phase.
aul_Polak_on_Out_of_Po
verty
&
His organization's
technologies
Kiosks
Malawi
Water kiosks for low income communities
http://www1.voanews.co
m/english/news/environm
ent/masina-malawi-waterpart3-12dec09-voamp3.html
Law
US
US Environmental Protection Agency Safe Drinking Water Act
http://tr.im/R9lr
Law
US
US Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Water Act
http://tr.im/R5dQ
Law
US/Senate
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for passing the Water
Infrastructure Financing Act (S.1005) (passed Senate in May 2009)
AmericanRivers.org
http://www.americanriver
s.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2009/waterinfrastructure-1.html
Law/groundwate book/middle
r
east
A New Legal Framework for Managing the World's Shared
http://www.amazon.com/g
Groundwaters: A Case Study from the Middle East (Water Law and p/product/1843390760?ie
Policy) $125
=UTF8&tag=theintwatlaw
p-
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20&linkCode=as2&camp
=1789&creative=9325&cr
eativeASIN=1843390760
Law/regulation
US
US Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Standards,
Laws & Regulations
http://tr.im/R13a
Management/reg Los Angeles
ional
Greater Los Angeles County Integrated Regional Water
Management Plan
http://tr.im/R8Od
Management/Riv Pakistan
ers
Large floods due to river management claims experts
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org
/News_Room/pdf/Nationa
lGeographic_Pakistan_Flo
oding_Because_of_Farms.
pdf
Map
US
US Geological Survey 2001-2012 unit study schedule map
http://tr.im/R5Rp
Mapping
Book
Review: The Atlas of Water, Second Edition–Mapping the World’s
Most Critical Resource
Maps
US
US Geological Survey maps
http://water.usgs.gov/map
s.html
Maps
US
Maps from the US National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA)
Program
http://water.usgs.gov/naw
qa/digmap.html
Global maps and information
http://www.waterwebster.
com/index.htm
Maps/resource
Mekong
Asia
MeKong River Commission (does not include China)
http://www.mrcmekong.or
g
micro/drip
irrigation
Colorado
Colorado State Univ page
http://www.ext.colostate.e
du/pubs/crops/04703.html
Migration
Immigrant
Tool/mobile
phone
Transborder Immigrant Tool - these are recycled cell phones loaded http://cryptome.org/0001/r
with software that points border-crossers to caches of fresh water in icardo-dominguez.htm
the desert..
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Migration
Video
3:22 commentary of a woman with “The Samaritans” who says she
was given a room for the rest of her life by a man whom she gave a
bottle of water to in the desert that helped save his life.
http://www.youtube.com/r
esistnetwork#p/u/5/iEBdo
9F-F0Y
Monitoring
NYC
DEP’s Automated Meter Reading (AMR) technology offers new
ways to track and understand your water usage online. The
instructional videos below offer information about AMR and how to
create your own DEP account so you can track your water usage
online, review your water meter reading history, and more.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/
dep/html/water_and_sewe
r_bills/amr_learn_more.sh
tml
Network
Global/wiki
(Undeveloped since 2007) OpenWater wiki, which provides a
platform for water quality scientists, researchers and practioners to
discuss analytical methods that are "tried, but maybe not true."
http://www.ungiwg.org/op
enwater/
Global water partnership
http://www.gwpforum.org
/servlet/PSP
Network
Network
US
Water Infrastructure Network (website down as of 3/13/10)
http://www.winwater.org/
Network
Global
Global Water Challenge: coalition of 24 organizations focusing on
collaborative learning, connecting leaders, and investing in
sustainable, scalable and replicable projects with the goal of
universal access to clean water and safe sanitation.
http://www.globalwaterch
allenge.org/home
Network
Global
Millennium Water Alliance
http://www.mwawater.org
/
Network/Civil
Global
Freshwater Action Network is a major network of civil society
organisations implementing and influencing water and sanitation
policy and practice.
http://www.freshwateracti
on.net
News
Global
Many catagories featured here for news
http://www.waterworld.co
m/index.html
News
Global
Water Strategist Community - News and information for water
professionals
http://www.waterchat.com
News
Arid and
Arid and semi-arid news from around the world
http://www.sahra.arizona.
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Semi-Arid
News
Developing
Countries
News
Global
News
US
News
Global
edu/newswatch/
WASH international: international news on water supply, sanitation http://washinternational.w
and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries, collected by ordpress.com
Cor Dietvorst, the editor of Source Weekly published by the IRC
International Water and Sanitation Centre.
http://globalwaternews.co
m
News on Clean Water Policy
http://www.cleanwaterpoli
cy.com
http://www.terradaily.com
/Water_World.html
News/informatio US
n
U.S. Water News: “Current water and wastewater news for the
professional”(2009) & link resource
News/Informatio Global
n
International network of leading journalists, scientists and
http://circleofblue.org
communications design experts that reports and presents the
information necessary to respond to the global freshwater crisis. It is
a nonprofit affiliate of the internationally recognized water, climate
and policy think tank, the Pacific Institute
Ocean (rift)
Ethiopia
35 mile rift in Ethiopia could become a new ocean in the distant
future
http://tr.im/RLwR
Organization
Global
World Toilet Organization - a global non- profit organization
committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions
worldwide.WTO is a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and
an Ashoka Global Fellow. WTO was recently appointed to the
World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Water
Security.
http://www.worldtoilet.or
g
Organization
NYC/global
Earth Institute Water Center
http://water.columbia.edu
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http://www.uswaternews.c
om
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Organization
North
America
The Alliance for Water Efficiency is a stakeholder-based 501(c)(3) http://www.allianceforwat
non-profit organization dedicated to the efficient and sustainable use erefficiency.org
of water. Located in Chicago, the Alliance serves as a North
American advocate for water efficient products and programs, and
provides information and assistance on water conservation efforts.
Organization
Army Corp
of
Engineers/Fl
orida
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers related: In June the state of Florida
made an unusual announcement: it would sue the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers over the corps plan to reduce water flow from
reservoirs in Georgia into the
Apalachicola River, which runs through Florida from the GeorgiaAlabama border.
Organization
Global
Water Integrity Network: view anti-corruption measures as central to http://www.waterintegrity
equitable and sustainable development, economic efficiency and
network.net
social equity. WIN is committed to accountability, transparency,
integrity, honesty, mutual support and knowledge exchange among
its members. These characteristics, to which any member should
adhere, unite the network. (96 countries)
> Sourcewatch.org claims the steering committee membership
consists of individuals with strong ties to the World Bank and
private water lobbying groups such as AquaFed.
Organization
Peoples
Water
Forum
The people's water forum
http://peopleswaterforum.
org
Organization
Tennessee
Valley
Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority, nations largest provider of electricity,
5th largest river system
http://www.tva.gov/aboutt
va/pdf/valleyfacts.pdf
Organization
Water
Studies
Institute
First freshwater studies in the nation at Northwestern Michigan
College’s fledgling Water Studies Institute.
http://tr.im/RtJS
Organization
Global
World Water Council: international multi-stakeholder platform. It
was established in 1996 on the initiative of renowned water
http://www.worldwaterco
uncil.org
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http://tr.im/RElx
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specialists and international organizations, in response to an
increasing concern about world water issues from the global
community.The World Water Council's mission is "to promote
awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical
water issues at all levels, including the highest decision-making
level, to facilitate the efficient conservation, protection,
development, planning, management and use of water in all its
dimensions on an environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit
of all life on earth."
Organization
Global
International non governmental organization. Our mission is to
transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and
sanitation in the world's poorest communities. Interesting example
from products page
http://www.wateraid.org.u
k
Organization
Global
UNESCO water portal (United Nations Education, Science, and
Cultural Organization).
http://www.unesco.org/wa
ter
Organization
Global
International Water Management Institute: IWMI is one of 15
international research centers supported by the network of 60
governments, private foundations and international and regional
organizations collectively known as the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It is a non-profit
organization with a staff of 350 and offices in over 10 countries
across Asia and Africa and Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
IWMI's Mission is to improve the management of land and water
resources for food, livelihoods and nature.
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org
IWMI's Vision, reflected in the Strategic Plan is to be a world-class
knowledge center on water, food and environment.
Organization
Australia
Centre for Ground Water Studies
Organization
Global
Food & Water Watch (non-profit): dedicated to working on behalf of http://www.foodandwater
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http://www.groundwater.c
om.au
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the public to assert and regain these rights as we lobby for effective
government standards and oversight, organize the public to take
action, and educate the public and the media on these basic issues.
watch.org
http://www.arcsa.org/new
s.html
Organization
US
The American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association is a nonprofit organization to promote rainwater catchment systems in the
United States. Memberships consists of professionals working in
city, state, and federal government, academia, manufacturers and
suppliers of rainwater harvesting equipment, consultants, and other
interested individuals. Membership is not limited to the United
States.
Organization
Global
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is http://www.wsscc.org
a global multi-stakeholder partnership organisation that works to
improve the lives of poor people. WSSCC enhances collaboration
among sector agencies and professionals around sanitation and water
supply and contributes to the broader goals of poverty eradication,
health and environmental improvement, gender equality and longterm social and economic development.
Organization
Global
The Water Policy Institute is a think tank project of the major U.S.
law firm Hunton & Williams. In the 2007 Supreme Court case
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, Hunton lawyers
argued that the EPA can not regulate carbon dioxide, under the
Clean Air Act. WPI's corporate members include BP, Central
Arizona Project and GE Water.
http://www.hunton.com/R
esources/Sites/general.asp
x?id=527
Associated with “playpumps” and World Water Corps.
http://www.waterforpeopl
e.org
Organization
Malawi/Vid
eo
Organization
Organization
&
http://www.sourcewatch.o
rg/index.php?title=Water_
Policy_Institute
Operating Division of Emergency Response Resources, Inc., a 501c3 http://www.worldwaterreli
charitable corporation.
ef.org
Arizona
Arizona water banking authority
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http://www.azwaterbank.g
ov
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PSIRU researches the privatisation and restructuring of public services
around the world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management,
and healthcare. It produces reports and maintains an extensive database
on the multinational companies involved.
http://www.psiru.org/
Organization/San Africa,
itation/Access
South Asia,
and Central
America
A nonprofit organization that has transformed hundreds of
communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America by
providing access to safe water and sanitation. Consisting of a
corporate CFO, an actor, a sanitation engineer, Peace Corps
volunteers, an executive from the energy sector, a researcher from
the EPA, a community organizer, a teacher, and some from hightech.
http://water.org
Organization/We Malawi
lls
Very small group based in Australia providing wells
http://waterformalawi.org
Organization/We United
lls
States/Afric
a
California non-profit organization dedicated to drilling and
maintaining safe water sources in the rural communities of Malawi,
Central Africa.
http://waterwellsforafrica.
org/
Overview
Charity
Facts on water from a Canadian water charity delivering access to
safe water
http://www.ryanswell.ca/d
ifference/facts_on_water.h
tml
Overview
US/islands
U.S. EPA Page on Water Info for all 50 States
http://www.epa.gov/water
/region.html
Ownership/Book Book
Book: “Who Owns the Water?”
http://www.amazon.com/
Who-Owns-Water-KlausLanz/dp/3037780185?ie=
UTF8&s=books&qid=117
7618347&sr=8-1
Partners
US EPA
US EPA list of partners
http://www.epa.gov/safew
ater/links.html
Peak water
Video/Globa
l
“Peak Water” Video by Peter Gleick
http://vimeo.com/9352377
Organization
Research
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Performance
Index
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDEX 2010
http://epi.yale.edu
Permaculture
Video
“permaculture rain harvesting” associated with
http://permaculture.org.au
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=kPrfNVzDNME
Permaculture
Jordan/Vide
o
“Greening the Desert” video on “greening the Dead Sea” zone
depleted of (*incredible real life short story*)
http://www.youtube.com/
earthintelnet#p/f/254/4S6
kTlz6Mk4
Photos/Water.org Global
Water.org Flickr page of photos from around the world, the latest are http://www.flickr.com/ph
of Haiti from March 2010
otos/waterdotorg/
Policy
global
International law firm Hunton & Williams established the Water
Policy Institute chaired by former U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency chief turned PR consultant Christine Todd Whitman, with
Hunton & Williams partner Kathy Robb as its director. Its founding
corporate members included BP, Central Arizona Project and GE
Water.
Policy/Law
Global
International Water Law Project: Created and directed by Gabriel
http://www.internationalw
Eckstein, the mission of the International Water Law Project (IWLP) aterlaw.org
is to serve as the premier resource on the Internet for international
water law and policy issues. Its purpose is to educate and provide
relevant resources to the public and to facilitate cooperation over the
world’s fresh water resources.
http://www.sourcewatch.o
rg/index.php?title=Hunton
_%26_Williams
Pollution/Toxins US/web
series
New York Times continuing series “Toxic Waters” on worsening
water pollution in America and regulator responses.
Portable/Rainwat Global
er
The Clean Hub is a portable, self sustaining source for clean water, http://openarchitecturenet
electricity and sanitation. Designed within an intermodal shipping
work.org/node/456
container, the Clean Hub can be fabricated, shipped and deployed
anywhere in the world in a matter of days. The Clean Hub uses a
photovoltaic array with battery storage, a 4,400 gallon water
reservoir, a rainwater catchment system, ceramic and reverse
osmosis filtration, and composting toilets.
Priority/Strategy Global
Global strategy outlook on cost of helping resolve the world's
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://projects.nytimes.co
m/toxic-waters
http://www.bigpicturesma
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problems with water as the top strategy.
llworld.com/warpeace/programcosts.shtml
Privatization
Ghana
National Coalition Against Privatization of Water in Ghana, “access, http://tr.im/RMpd
quality and reliability indicators in the water sector had suffered
woeful decline since the signing of the AVRL management
contract” & failure of the World Bank-sponsored urban water
reforms, “The World Bank and Government of Ghana have therefore
got it all wrong by proposing a management solution to an
investment problem,”
Privatization
History
HistoryCommons.org timeline
Privatization
Movie
Case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh http://www.flowthefilm.c
water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human om
rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Privatization
Report
"Money Down the Drain: How Private Control of Water Wastes
Public Resources."
http://tr.im/RtEf
Privatization/Wa Global
ste
Money Down the Drain: How Private Control of Water Wastes
Public Resources (Food and Water Watch report)
http://tr.im/RLM5
Protection
Global
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.
http://www.blueplanetproj
ect.net
Public Systems
US
US Environmental Protection Agency Public Drinking Water
Systems Programs
http://tr.im/QRzj
Publication
Global
Interdisciplinary journal addressing the full range of issues that
water raises in contemporary societies.
http://wateralternatives.org
Pump
Africa
Maker of foot powered water pumps for small agricultural plots of
land for rural farmers to earn more money.
http://www.kickstart.org
Pumps/students
Malawi/Was
hington
State
Multidisciplinary student teams develop a technology and business
plan to enable success of the technology with a focus on Malawi.
http://eerc.wsu.edu/malaw
iwaterpump.html
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http://tr.im/RtPl
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University
Purification
Article
Moringa tree seeds for water purification:
http://tr.im/RLni
Thousand-year-old Indian method of using tree seeds to purify water
should be used more widely for tackling waterborne diseases
+ Indian tree seeds that purify water could dramatically
reduce disease in the less-industrialised world, say
researchers.
+ The technique of crushing seeds from the Moringa
Oleifera tree and adding them to water has been used in
its native India for thousands of years.
+ Now researchers from Canada say it is time to
publicise the technique more widely in order to reduce
water born diseases across the world.
Purification
Study
Bioremediation of Turbid Surface Water Using Seed Extract from
Moringa oleifera Lam: An indigenous water treatment method uses
Moringa oleifera seeds in the form of a water-soluble extract in
suspension, resulting in an effective natural clarification agent for
highly turbid and untreated pathogenic surface water. Efficient
reduction (80.0% to 99.5%) of high turbidity produces an
aesthetically clear supernatant, concurrently accompanied by
90.00% to 99.99% (1 to 4 log) bacterial reduction. Application of
this low-cost Moringa oleifera protocol is recommended for
simplified, point-of-use, low-risk water treatment where rural and
peri-urban people living in extreme poverty are presently drinking
highly turbid and microbiologically contaminated water.
http://www.currentprotoco
ls.com/protocol/mc01g02
Purification
Yemen/Audi
o
An American in Yemen has become one of the few global
manufacturers of affordable and deceptively simple ceramic water
filters that could play a vital role in bringing safe drinking water to
millions of people. Using technology that originated in Latin
America, he sold 20,000 filters last year at $25 apiece, and hopes to
http://www.npr.org/templ
ates/story/story.php?storyI
d=124012949
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expand his operations this year.
Purification/Orga Global
nization
Since 1998, Potters for Peace has been assisting in the production
worldwide of a low-tech, low-cost, colloidal silver-enhanced
ceramic water purifier (CWP). Field experience and clinical test
results have shown this filter to effectively eliminate approximately
99.88% of most water born disease agents.
http://www.pottersforpeac
e.org
Purification/Orga Global
nization
Canadian non-profit - Through our affiliation with Potters For Peace. http://www.potterswithout
We are researching Ceramic Water Filter technology as part of a
borders.com
solution to waterborne disease. (forum)
Quality
U.S.
Water Quality Information Center (WQIC) provides electronic
access to information on water quality and agriculture. The center
collects, organizes, and communicates the scientific findings,
educational methodologies, and public policy issues related to water
quality and agriculture.
http://wqic.nal.usda.gov/n
al_display/index.php?info
_center=7&tax_level=1&t
ax_subject=596
Quality
Assessment
US
US National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program:
provides an understanding of water-quality conditions; whether
conditions are getting better or worse over time; and how natural
features and human activities affect those conditions.
http://water.usgs.gov/naw
qa
Quality/monitori Global
ng
GEMStat is designed to share surface and ground water quality data http://www.gemstat.org
sets collected from the GEMS/Water Global Network, including
more than 3,000 stations, close to four million records, and over 100
parameters. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables
(available in the future) or download the data in different formats
(available in the future).
Quality/monitori Global
ng
The United Nations GEMS/Water Programme provides
scientifically-sound data and information on the state and trends of
global inland water quality required as a basis for the sustainable
management of the world's freshwater to support global
environmental assessments and decision- making processes.
http://www.gemswater.or
g
Radioactive
Radioactive groundwater laced with the remnants of Cold War
http://tr.im/RDYh
Nevada
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nuclear weapons testing (Nevada): “Under our strategy we don't do
any remediation. The only thing we can do at this point is
adopt a long-term monitoring plan,” said Bill Wilborn, director of
the drilling and monitoring project.
Rainwater
United
States
Great rainwater harvesting resource with an update on
law/regulations
http://www.harvesth2o.co
m/statues_regulations.sht
ml
Rainwater
Harvesting
Video/India
90 second video that seeks to deliver a simple message: Rain water
belongs to each of us and that we should collect and share.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4xtMnE9Bo6s
Rainwater
harvesting
Texas
Texas A & M rainwater harvesting web resource
http://rainwaterharvesting.
tamu.edu
Rainwater
Harvesting
Kenya
The Rainwater Court is a full-court basketball court with an
integrated rainwater collection and UV purification system with
solar panels for the water system and night lighting in areas without
electricity. The full-court configuration has a 4,850 sq ft playing
surface covered by metal roof and guttered to collect an estimated
90,000 liters of water per year. The building incorporates 30,000
liters of rainwater storage, with UV purification.
http://openarchitecturenet
work.org/node/5252
Rainwater
harvesting/Grey
water
US/NYC
New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority using
rainwater harvesting and storage to was buses, also resuing the
washwater.
http://tr.im/QDFA &
Sundance channel video at
Big Ideas for a Small
Planet - Season 2
Rainwater
Global
Harvesting/netw
ork
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance
http://www.irha-h2o.org
Rainwaterharvest Global/India
ing
The source of all water is rain. Supply comes from the sky. Let us
http://www.rainwaterharv
apply this understanding: in order to meet demand, then, what we
esting.org
actually need to do is harvest the rain. Not dam a river, and block its
flow. Not boost water out the ground, and suck the earth dry. Not
build canals, lay kilometers of pipes. But merely harvest the rain. In
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India, the monsoon is a deluge. In India the monsoon is brief..about
100 hours of rain in a year. It is this 100-hour bounty that must be
caught, stored, and used over the other 8,660 hours that make up a
year.
Reference
Global
Digital atlas on water
http://www.gemswater.or
g/digital_atlas/chapter1/in
dex.html
Reference
Global
World Water Vision: Making Water Everybody’s Business
http://www.worldwaterco
uncil.org/index.php?id=96
1
Reference
Global
The much anticipated sixth volume in the highly regarded series,
The World’s Water 2008-2009 from the Pacific Institute
http://worldwater.org
Reference
Global
Earth Intelligence Network Overview of World Water Overview
(Public Daily Brief for Water as of 2006)
http://reconfigure.org/PDBWater.
pdf
Regulation
U.S./EPA
(June 17, 2010) - The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking http://news.yahoo.com/s/a
to tighten rules protecting the safety of water in public systems.A
p/20100617/ap_on_he_me
new rule proposed Thursday would call on water suppliers to make /us_safer_water
repairs whenever testing indicates the possibility of contamination.
For example, that could mean when tests detect even harmless
microbes, which could suggest a broken water main or other
pathway that also might allow dangerous germs into the
system.Currently, water systems are required to do periodic tests and
to make repairs if hazardous microbes are discovered. No effective
date has been set for the new rule, which will be open to public
comment for 60 days.
Regulation
US EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening drinking water
standards to impose stricter limits on four contaminants that can
cause cancer: tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, acrylamide and
epichlorohydrin.
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
stories/2010/03/22/health/
main6322740.shtml?sourc
e=related_story
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Report
China
2008 China Water Market Report
http://www.chinawater.net
/reports/08reports/index.ht
ml
from
http://www.chinawater.net
&
http://www.h2ochina.com
Report/Infectious Global/USA
Disease
connection
CIA report/National Intelligence Estimate from January 2000 The
Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United
States which mentions “Water management efforts, such as dam
building, will encourage the spread of water-breeding vectors such
as mosquitoes”.
http://www.dni.gov/nic/P
DF_GIF_otherprod/infecti
ousdisease/infectiousdisea
ses.pdf
Research
Institutes
List/links to resources for national water research institutes
http://www.waterwebster.
com/NationalWater_fram
ebottom.htm
Research/organiz Middle East
ation
Middle East Desalination Research Center
http://www.medrc.org
Resource
Water on the Web was funded by the National Science Foundation
from 1997 to 2005. ..helps college and high school students
understand and solve real-world environmental problems using
advanced technology.
http://www.wateronthewe
b.org
US
WOW is a complete package containing two sets of curricula, data
from many lakes and rivers nationwide, extensive online primers,
data interpretation and Geographic Information System Tools, and
additional supporting materials.
Resource
encyclopedi
a
Encyclopedia of Earth water section
http://www.eoearth.org/by
/Topic/Water
Resources
US
U.S. Geological Survey – Water Resources of the U.S.
http://water.usgs.gov
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River (Int’l)
Database
International River Boundaries Database
River basin
California
San Fernando Basin had a Superfund site, 40% had to be abandoned http://tr.im/Qjvk
River Basin
Global
River Basin Initiative Portal was developed to establish a global
network to share information and lessons learned, as well as to link
and support activities which uses an integrated approach in
managing our biodiversity, wetlands and river basins.
http://www.riverbasin.org
Rivers
US
Endangered river list for 2009
http://tr.im/RMhz
Rivers
US
Tennessee Valley Authority river system
http://www.tva.com/river
Rivers
Global
Sharing river information and various information on water in
general
http://mouthtosource.net/ri
vers
Rivers
US
AmericanRivers.org
http://www.americanriver
s.org
Rivers/monitorin AU
g
River monitoring data from the government of western Australia's
department of water
http://kumina.water.wa.go
v.au/waterinformation/tele
m/stage.cfm
Rivers/organizati Latin
on
America,
Asia and
Africa
Our Mission: To protect rivers and defend the rights of communities http://www.internationalri
that depend on them. We oppose destructive dams and encourage
vers.org
better ways of meeting people's needs for water, energy and flood
protection.
Rivers/restoratio Asia
n
Asian River Restoration Network
http://www.a-rr.net
Salinization
article
..salinization of soils owing to over-irrigation, water pollution and
eutrophication—the pollution of land and water ecosystems with
nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers.
http://www.nature.com/e
mbor/journal/v9/n11/full/e
mbor2008196.html
Sanitation
Global
5 steps to achieving clean drinking water
http://catapultdesign.org/r
ecent-blogs/clean-water
Sanitation
U.K.
Sanitation Policy Background Paper “Water is Life, Sanitation is
http://tr.im/RZaP
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/
resources/irbd/
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Dignity”
Sanitation
Global/poll
British Medical Journal poll: Sanitation: voted most important
medical advance since 1840
Sanitation
Global
report
Review of Decision-Making Support Tools in the Water, Sanitation, http://www.pacinst.org/re
and Hygiene Sector (reviewed 120)
ports/WASH_tool
Sanitation/Clean Africa
Objective is to increase awareness of the African situation, empower http://www.h20africa.org
people to action, and create sustainable alliances between people
who want to help, the best organizations in the field to make it
happen, and some of the amazing communities of Africa that have
no clean water.
Sewer history
Global
Over the past fifteen years, Jon Schladweiler, the Historian of the
http://www.sewerhistory.o
Arizona Water Association, has researched and collected materials rg
related to the history of sewage conveyance systems. Many of these
have been displayed in a traveling exhibit entitled "The Collection
Systems Historical Photo and Artifacts Display." The overall
collection of sewer history materials covers the era from
approximately 3500 BCE through the 1930s CE. The purpose of this
website is to house this dynamic collection of materials about the
evolutionary development of sewers over the past 5500 years, and to
provide a location for the sharing and distribution of information to
others. The donation of additional photos, sketches, articles, books,
or other sources of historical information on the history of sewers is
welcome.
Shortage
US
The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water
http://www.phibetaiota.ne
t/2010/10/journal-10-uscities-short-on-water/
Singapore
Video
Variety of info in this video on their waterworks
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9o3WmU8ZB1c
State
US
List/links to resources for State water agencies
http://www.waterwebster.
com/state_framebottom.ht
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http://www.irc.nl/page/32
503
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m
Storage
Global
1. Affordable enclosed water storageA Giant Plastic Condom in http://blog.paulpolak.com/
an Earthen Trench, The 5,000 L $75 Durable Plastic Bladder, ?p=249 (video included)
The 200,000 L $500 Plastic Lined Pond with a Plastic Cover
2. Low Cost Small Plot Drip Irrigation Systems
Stream Flow
Map
Water Watch -- Current water resources conditions map of real-time http://waterwatch.usgs.go
stream flow compared to historical stream flow for the day of the
v
year (United States)
Stress
Australia/vi
deo
Australia: Water Pressure
http://www.journeyman.tv
+26% of water is lost to evaporation and seepage thru large open
/9003/documentaries/wate
channels...new private operators cannot afford the cost of
r-pressure.html
replacement of sealing and piping
+Australia stores more water per head than any other country
+takes 1550 litres of water to grow 1kg of rice
+irrigation re-education 'schooling' for farmers to move away from
inefficient irrgation methods of the distant past
+Quote by Tim Fisher of the Aust Conservation Foundation that
"there's an illiteracy problem in Australia, we haven't learned to read
the landscape...in many ways we see it through European eyes."
System
Data Web
National Water Information System: Web Interface
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/
nwis
Tap
Video/globa
l
+ Get Off the Bottle Tour (screenings) March 22-April 22
Made by the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car, mentions:
http://www.tappedthemov
ie.com



18 million barrels of oil are used to transport water every
year.
There is virtually no testing for bottled water. One person is
responsible for overseeing all of the regulation of bottled
water in the U.S.
Only 20% of bottles actually get recycled. Un-recycled
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bottles often end up in the oceans, adding to a dead zone of
plastic that is already twice the size of Texas and growing.
Tech/investment/ Africa/Vide
problems
o
PBS Frontline documentary on Lessons from U.S. Short Term Tech http://www.pbs.org/frontli
Investment Blunder for Clean Water in African Nations regarding
neworld/stories/southernaf
the “Play Pump” and oversimplified vision and lack of long term
rica904/video_index.html
planning.
Technology
Global
“The website for the water and wastewater industry”
http://www.watertechnology.net
Technology
Global
Water Technology Magazine
http://www.watertechonli
ne.com/index.asp
Technology/
Global
List of various technologies provided by vendors for a variety of
needs from arsenic filters to solar disinfecting.
http://www.cawst.org/en/r
esources/useful-links/133technologies
Technology/Aid Nepal/video
The multi-use water system increases access to water for rural and
http://www.youtube.com/
mountainous communities in Nepal through low-cost technology.
practicalaction#p/u/1/OF
This video case study, telling the story of a woman in Ramaroshan K3um6vsdI
VDC, Achham District, demonstates the impact of the technology,
which was introduced as part of Practical Action Nepal's SABAL
project: http://practicalaction.org/region_nepal_minimising_conflict
Technology/Sew Singapore
er
Singapore's Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) is fast gaining
http://www.japancorp.net/
recognition on the global water stage with its second international
Article.Asp?Art_ID=2138
award in less than a year. The DTSS beat competition from Jordan"s 2
As Samra Waste Water Treatment Plant, Geneva Water Treatment
Facility in Illinois as well as the Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment
Plant in San Diego.
Testing
Prices
Analyses and prices to test water samples (New York)
Tokyo
Tokyo
A little more than 100 years have passed since modernization began http://www.waterworks.m
with the Tokyo Bureau of Waterworks starting to supply water in
etro.tokyo.jp/eng/supply/
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http://tr.im/RtCp
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1898 from the Yodobashi Purification Plant. Since that time, we
have been securing water resources and improving waterworks
facilities to provide a constant and stable supply of clean water. As a
result, waterworks in Tokyo have grown to be one of the largest and
best waterworks in the world. Organizational chart of Tokyo
waterworks (pg.3)
Toxins
US
Toxic Substances Hydrology Program (pharma, hormones, toxins,
etc)
Transboundary
Global/atlas
Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements: The Atlas of
http://www.transboundary
International Freshwater Agreements contains an historical overview waters.orst.edu/publicatio
of international river basin management; a detailed listing of more
ns/atlas/
than 300 international freshwater agreements; and a collection of
thematic maps related to the agreements, their content, and the river
basins they represent. Published in cooperation with the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Transboundary
basins
Global
Resource for global river basin information
Transport
Africa
(from website) Traditionally water is carried in heavy 20 litre / 5
http://www.hipporoller.or
gallon buckets on the head. THIS DAILY BURDEN is significantly g/
reduced by using the Hippo Water Roller which carries 4 or 5 times
more water with less effort. APPROXIMATELY 30,000
ROLLERS have been distributed worldwide over the past 15 years,
directly benefiting over 200,000 people.
Currently, all Hippo Water Rollers are manufactured and shipped
from South Africa. A mobile factory has been developed for local
manufacture to reduce shipping costs.
Treatment
article
Afghan to Haiti water treatment with bacteria
http://tr.im/RtNi
Treatment
Global
Company that manufactures the “Aquacube”
http://aquacube.org.uk/pro
ducts/
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://toxics.usgs.gov/regi
onal/emc/index.html
http://www.inbo-news.org
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UN
Global
2003 was called the international year of freshwater by the UN &
The period 2005-2015 has been proclaimed by the UN as the
International Decade for Action on 'Water for Life'.
http://tr.im/Ru2R
United Nations
Free book
Free online book called Toward a world of thirst?
http://www.unep.org/dew
a/vitalwater/rubrique2.htm
l
United Nations
database
UN Food & Agriculture Organization: AQUASTAT is FAO's
http://www.fao.org/nr/wat
global information system on water and agriculture developed by the er/aquastat/main/index.st
Land and Water Division. It collects, analyses and disseminates data m
and information by country and by region. Its aim is to provide users
interested in global, regional and national analyses with
comprehensive information related to water resources and
agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on
countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
United Nations
Global
Large and valuable resource
http://www.unwater.org
United Nations
Global
United Nations “water for life decade”
http://www.un.org/waterf
orlifedecade/
United Nations
Report
Human Development Report 2006: Power, Poverty, and Water
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr200
6/pdfs/report/HDR06complete.pdf
United Nations
Global
report
“Everything you need to know about UN watercourses convention”
http://www.unwater.org/d
ownloads/wwf_un_waterc
ourses_brochure_for_web
_1.pdf
Urban tap
NYC/PC/M
obile
TapIt water bottle refilling network was founded in 2008 to give
http://www.tapitwater.co
New Yorkers free access to clean sustainable water on the go. Café m
owners sign up as ‘partners’ to provide tap water to those who carry
a reusable bottle. Partner locations are easy to find using our search
and mapping features (PC or Smartphone) or by downloading ‘TapIt
Water’ from the iPhone App store. For those with limited access to
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technology, printable city maps can be downloaded and stickers can
be found on café windows
Usage
Data
U.S. water usage by state on Google Earth
http://tr.im/RtA4
Usage
US
total water use in US
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/e
du/mapgallery.html
Usage
US
Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1
344/pdf/c1344.pdf
Usage Reporting Global
Carbon Disclosure Project trying to persuade 302 companies to
report their water usage. Ford Motor, PepsiCo and Molson Coors
Brewing have already signed on to the water disclosure campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/04/07/business/ener
gyenvironment/07water.html
Use
US
USGS 2005 report on US Water Use (latest report)
http://water.usgs.gov/watu
se
Use/Lawns
US
Turf lawn water use (especially in arid zones)
http://tr.im/RMib
Video
Global
GOOD magazine: two video shorts on global freshwater
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HW5eBfZhE4M
&
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_R_vpNQ0fJc
Wastewater/Trea Mexico
tment
On 7 January 2010, the National Water Commission of Mexico,
http://www.waterConagua, signed agreements with a consortium of companies to
technology.net/projects/at
construct a new wastewater treatment plant in Atotonilco, Hidalgo, otonilcowastewater/
Mexico. The plant will be the largest wastewater treatment project in
Mexico and one of largest of its kind in the world. The Sustainable
Water Programme also includes the construction of another five
water treatment plants in the Valley of Mexico to attain its goal to
treat 100% of the wastewaters of municipalities by 2020 and of
industries by 2025.
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Watchdog
Global
PR Watch's water pages
http://www.prwatch.org/n
ode/8948
http://www.sourcewatch.o
rg/index.php?title=Portal:
Water
Water levels
SW USA
Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning
https://www.nytimes.com/
2010/09/28/us/28mead.ht
ml?emc=eta1
Water Poverty
Index
Global
A tool for monitoring and prioritisation in the water sector (Oxford
Centre for Water Research).
http://ocwr.ouce.ox.ac.uk/
research/wmpg/wpi/
&
http://www.watermonitori
ngalliance.net/index.php?i
d=521&L=0target=
Water poverty
index
Global
2007 Richest water countries (cubic kilometers per year (ckpy):
http://is.gd/aTzIn
1. Brazil … 8,233 (14.9% of world total)2. Russia … 4,498
(8.1%)3. Canada … 3,300 (6%)4. United States … 3,069 (5.6%)5.
Indonesia … 2,838 (5.1%)6. China … 2,830 (5.1%)7. Colombia …
2,132 (3.9%)8. Peru … 1,913 (3.5%)9. India … 1,908 (3.5%)10.
Democratic Republic of Congo … 1,283 (2.3%)
Top WPI countries: 1. Finland 2. Canada 3. Iceland 4. Norway 5.
Guyana 6. Suriname 7. Austria 8. Ireland 9. Sweden 10. Switzerland.
Wiki
Global
The Wiki for Water Professionals worldwide.
World Bank
Middle East
report/book
Water in the Arab World: Management Perspectives and Innovations http://web.worldbank.org/
WBSITE/EXTERNAL/C
OUNTRIES/MENAEXT/
0,,contentMDK:22193693
~pagePK:146736~piPK:1
46830~theSitePK:256299,
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.
http://waterwiki.net/index.
php/Welcome
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00.html
World Bank
Global
Study: World Bank funds doing little to aid some water-deprived
nations (Washington Post)
http://is.gd/aTzbk
&
http://www.worldbank.org
/ieg/water/
World Bank
Global
report on
access
recommenda
tions
World Bank Report Recommends Ways to Improve Access to Clean
Water. Ethiopia, Haiti and Niger are facing the world’s worst water
shortages, but 700 million people in 43 countries are under “water
stress,” according to the report.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/04/06/health/06glob.
html?scp=1&sq=world%2
0bannk%20water&st=cse
&
http://www.worldbank.org
/ieg/water/
World Water
Council
UN
From October 7, 2009: Press release to discourage UN from joining
World Water Council
http://canadians.org/action
/2009/07-Oct-09.html
World Water
Forum
event
World Water Forum
http://worldwaterforum.or
g/index.php?id=1870&L=
0
Water Table by Jason Liszkiewicz hologramr [at] re-configure.org Date of Information: updated 18 Feb 2011.