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Alberta WaterPortal "free & open source access.. sharing info & knowledge on ground & surface water conditions, water management innovations, best practices, news & research, & conservation programs" Can "In a 100-year period, a water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about 2 weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere"
AllAboutWater.org "Read, Learn, & Know about Water" US
Alternatives to Water Privatisation "Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements, Struggles & Visions from Around the World" bk Transnational Institute, Netherlands + links *****
BluePlanetProject.net "water justice now.. public trust.. global commons.. precious & sustains all life.. Access to water is a fundamental human right.. international civil society movement begun by The Council of Canadians to protect the world's fresh water from the growing threats of trade & privatization" Maude Barlow, Friends of the Right to Water & UN
The Corporate Threat to Water & the Water Justice Movement's Fight to Protect it Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! alternet.org 2Mar08 + "international water guru Maude Barlow" & new doco 'Flow: For Love of Water'
Cost of water shortage: civil unrest, mass migration & economic collapse guardian.co.uk 17Aug06 & "..International Water Management Institute, the world's leading body on fresh water management" IWMI Sri Lanka
Environmentalists Critical of Nobel Prize for R K Pachauri headed IPCC Global Alliance Against Pollution news New Delhi 13Oct07
EyeonEarth.eu Water Watch "Keep an eye on bathing water quality" European Environment Agency
Fertiliser limits could be costly "70% of England.. a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone.. massive costs on the livestock industry" farmnews.co.nz 27Aug07
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations "helping to build a world without hunger" fao.org + Making every drop count "By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stress conditions" 14Feb07 & Coping with water scarcity 22Mar07 etc
Food & Water Watch "Protect America's Water ..Budget Cuts ..Underfunding ..Clear Waters: Why America Needs a Clean Water Trust Fund" etc WashDC wateractivist.org worldbankwatch.org fwwatch.org
Global Water News Watch Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology & Riparian Areas SAHRA.arizona.edu & privatization search * * * * *
Greenhat Software "Simulation modelling software in the soil, plant, crop, agricultural & environmental sciences" incl WaterMod3 Aus [halt Aug06]
How to Green Your Water treehugger.com + links
Innovative design cuts street runoff Seattle Post 20Nov02
International Glossary of Hydrology
International Polar Year IPY.org "programme focused on the Arctic & the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009" + Census of Antarctic Marine Life CAML + ANDRILL Antarctic Drilling Project
International Water Association IWA "leading water professionals in science, research, technology & practice.. all facets of the water cycle" London iwahq.org + links
Jubilee South "network of debt campaigns, social movements, people's organizations, communities, NGOs & political formations" - Campaign on People's Right to Water & Power Services
Livestock's long shadow Environmental issues & options report LEAD library - Ch4 "Livestock's role in water depletion & pollution"
Netafim Drip Irrigation "Where every drop counts" Tel Aviv + HydraCalc "Irrigation Planning Software" WinXX
No wheat, just worry, from dust bowl "Australia's drought takes its toll" NZ Herald 29Oct07
SaveOurWater.org Committee "Massachusetts Communities for Pure Water" anti-fluoride + Save Our Water Committee "preserve & protect Lake Eufaula" Oklahoma + SaveOurGroundwater.org SOG "New Hampshire Seacoast-area citizens action organization dedicated to protecting water in the public trust" + SaveOurWaterSupply.org Concerned Citizens for Clean Water CCCW "Working to Keep America's Water Safe & Clean"
H2O 08 Sigma Xi's Year of Water "Science Policy Ethics" blog Scientific Research Society US
Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI.org & Saving Water: From Field to Fork - Curbing Losses & Wastage in the Food Chain "Staggering Food Waste Places Water & Land Resources in Distress, Says SIWI, FAO, & IWMI" 14May08 at the 16th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development & World Water Week in Stockholm "Progress & Prospects on Water: For a Clean & Healthy World" 17-23Aug08 * * * * *
United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/58/217 proclaimed 2005-2015 the International Decade for Action Water for Life + UN-Water World Water Day "celebrated each year on 22 March" 2007 'Coping with Water Scarcity' & International Year of Sanitation IYS2008 + UNESCO.org Natural Sciences Water & Water for People, Water for Life "The 1st UN World Water Development Report" WWDR 03 from World Water Assessment Program + International Hydrological Programme (IHP) Bureau & Institute for Water Education UNESCO-IHE postgrad Paris + UN Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment NYT 26Oct07
The Water Barons Center for Public Integrity bk Washington
Water Board Bible Alabama Rural Water Assn manuals etc US
Water crisis wikipedia & Water resources & Water cycle subsuming Carbon cycle species-food/energy & List of environmental issues * * * * *
Water fad swells cost 10,000 times "Bottled water is really expensive, in terms of environmental costs & economically" smh.com.au 12May07
The Water Geeks Laboratories "to help turn the global water crisis upside down through empowering consumers with compelling new choices that better fit both their active lifestyles & their ecological beliefs.. innovative new water consumption products designed for the world as it is today.. products.. uniquely designed to create both a healthier 'you' & a healthier 'planet'" Can
Water is Life "a Human Rights & Indigenous Rights issue.. Commodifying the Sacred" Indigenous Environmental Network Water Campaign ienearth.org

The Water Page "independent initiative dedicated to the promotion of sustainable water resources management & use.. [esp] development, utilisation & protection of water in Africa & other developing regions" africanwater.org
Water Planet leonardodicaprio.org movies Global Warning & "The 11th Hour"
Water Prices Rising Worldwide "just as the oil price shocks of the 1970s stimulated energy conservation, so too could pricing water to better reflect its real cost stimulate similar conservation efforts by industries, farmers, and households" Earth Policy Institute 7Mar07
Water Resources of the United States US Geological Survey + Recent Climate Change Publications Addressing Water Availability Issues * * * * *
Water storage depleting: Time for remedial measures Central Chronicle India 04Nov07 + Environmental changes: Time for corrective steps "heat conditions would increase resulting in less rainfall & irregular monsoon" '23Nov07' ex Silobreaker
Water Utility Climate Alliance WUCA coalition of 8 utilities 26Feb08 US calls on federal climate research to aid with impacts preparedness ClimateScienceWatch & Update mail sub + The Water Information Program "Providing water info to the communities of Southwest Colorado" waterinfo.org
Water, Wetland & Aquatic Ecosystem Research Brussel 98 Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Initiative TERI Environment & Climate Programme of the European Commission
World Health Organization WHO The right to water "Millennium Summit.. agreed to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking-water" bk 03 Water Sanitation & Health WSH
The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources "info, data, & resources to individuals, organizations, & institutions working on solutions to a wide range of global freshwater problems" bk Worldwater.org
World Water Council 2000 "An International Multi-Stakeholder Platform for a Water Secure World" & 5th World Water Forum Istanbul 09 + WaterTreaty.org "To halt the global water crisis, we need an international law on Right to Water. This would oblige governments the world over to turn their words into action" Water campaign "Global campaign for the Right to Water.. Access to Water is not a Privilege, it's a Right!" Green Cross International & USA / Optimist magazine gci.ch + news + Water Framework Directive EU 00 & European Declaration for a New Water Culture, Madrid Feb05 New Water Culture Foundation "unsustainability spiral.. sacrificing the rights of future generations & increasing existing world injustices. The fight against poverty, the ecological efficiency & the conservation of our natural inheritance are the keys of that challenge of ethical responsibility we must face" unizar.es & Aquanet * * * *
World Water Rescue Foundation "Water for all people ..nonprofit ..dedicated to protecting &http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ preserving the world's water resources & ensuring the fundamental right of access to safe drinking water.. essential to every aspect of life. We cannot live without it.. no technology available that can manufacture it.. cannot be replaced or duplicated.. must be valued & safeguarded.. to restore, in an environmentally sound manner & in harmony with the needs of the world, the integrity of the element of water.. in significant danger" 00 US + Water in Religion etc links + The Holy Order of Water: Healing Earth's Waters & Ourselves bk "finally water can be understood only when seen as the mediator not just between life & death but between the physical world & the spiritual world as well" Wm E Marks + kids 'Agent H2O' fun * * * * *
"William E. Marks has been a longtime advocate for the protection of water and was made the first WWRF Hero by the World Water Rescue Foundation. As well as journeying by horseback across the United States for two years in the 1970s, he has visited Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Australia to study historical water management practices. He established water testing institutes and a publishing company, but sold all his business interests in the 1990s to focus on writing about water. He is the author of The Holy Order of Water (Bell Pond Books, ISBN: 0-88010-483-X), which describes the biological, historical, environmental and spiritual significance of water, and the editor of Water Voices from Around the World: A Profound Book About Water (ISBN: 978-0-9793046-0-6), in which 77 authors attest to the significance of water." www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday 10May08
WWF-UK Research centre: Freshwater "There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - & the environment - suffer badly.. As part of the newly-created HSBC Climate Partnership, WWF is to receive US$35 million to help protect four of the world's major rivers from the impacts of climate change" + Sustainable use of water etc
Xeriscape "Landscape Water Conservation.. adequate supply of high quality water has become a critical issue for the future prosperity" Texas AgExtSvc + Xeriscape "A Guide to Developing a Water-wise Landscape" Uni Georgia Environmental Landscape Design Dept

Water link pages:
Canterbury local industry etc
Dairy dilemma
Nitrate danger
Project Waiora cleanup of rivers, estuaries & lagoons ~ Wakapai Kaa Awa
Water hub page
Water bibles historical context
Wider NZ outside of Canterbury

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