Water related Sites


International Organisations, NGOs & Resources:

http://www.watervision.org
World Water Vision for the 21st Century

http://www.worldwaterforum.org
Second World Water Forum and Ministerial Conference, The Hague, March, 2000

http://www.water-experts-network.org/
Water Experts Network

http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/
World Water Council

International Water Resources Association, IWRA
http://www.iwra.siu.edu/win/index.html

International Rivers Network
http://www.irn.org

http://www.gwp.sida.se
Global Water Partnership

http://www.gwpforum.org
Global Water Partnership Forum

Reseau International des Organismes de Bassin
http://www.oieau.fr/riob/

http://www.oieau.fr
International Office for Water

http://www.iucn.org/
The World Conservation Union - (IUCN)

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
http://www.wwf.org

http://www.dams.org
World Commission on Dams

http://www.hydropower.org.iha
International Hydropower Association (IHA)

http://www.iahr.nl
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research

http://www.waternunc.com
The Network for the Water Business

http://www.aaas.org/international/psd/index.html
Population and Sustainable Development

http://www.living-water.org/Default.htm
Living Water International

http://www.cciw.ca/gems/
Global Environmental Monitoring System

http://www.groundwater.org/
Groundwater Foundation

http://www.ru.ac.za/departments/iwr/
Institute for Water Research (IWR)

http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/
Institute of Hydrology

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwiahs/index.html
International Association of Hydrological Sciences

http://genepi.louis-jean.com/cigb/index.html
International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD)

Development Visions, Lahore, Pakistan, International Water News Service
http://www.brain.net.pk/~daima/waterline.htm

http://www.iawq.org.uk/
International Water Association

http://www.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/home.html
SOAS Water Issues Study Group Occasional Papers, University of London

ENCOP, Swiss Federal Institute for Technology
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/

http://www.water-ed.org/
Water Education Foundation

http://www.wef.org/
Water Environment Federation

http://www.wrc.org.za/databases/default.htm
Water Lit Database at the Water Research Commission (WRC)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
http://challenge.bi.no/sbc/index.htm

http://www.cgiar.org/iwmi/
International Water Management Institute

http://www.irc.nl/
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Worldwater
http://www.worldwater.org

World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org

River Network
http://www.teleport.com/~rivernet/

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/sei/seiprogs.html

Global Scenario Group (GSG)
http://www.gsg.org/branchpt.pdf

Millennium Institute
http://igc.apc.org/mill/

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org

http://www.oneworld.org/odi
Overseas Development Institute

http://bothends.org
Both Ends, Environment and Development Service for NGOs

http://www.nwp.nl
Netherlands Water Partnership

http://www.globetree.org
Globe Tree - Future Vessel

Solutions for a Water-Short World, Johns Hopkins
http://www.jhuccp.org/popreport/m14edsum.stm

Freshwater Trends: Will the Future Be Met? World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/wa_txt3.html

International Negotiations on Water, Asit K. Biswas (Ecodecision)
http://www.ecodec.org/14a/biswa14a.htm

Managing Conflict: A Guide for Watershed Partnerships, National Watershed Network, Purdue University
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/ManageConflict.html

Water Resources and Management in the 21st Century, Mohamed T. El-Ashry
http://www.gefweb.org/gefceo/spewater.htm

Resources at Risk: The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems, World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/freshwat.htm

Global Water Politics - Petersberg Declaration
http://www.dse.de/ef/petersb.htm

 

International Law:

http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/nnavfra.htm
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses

http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development
http://www.wmo.ch/web/hom/icwedece.html#p3

http://www.ramsar.org/index_very_key_docs.htm
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

http://www.biodiv.org/chm/conv/default.htm
The Convention on Biological Diversity

UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
http://www.unccd.ch/

http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org
International Water Law Project

Le droit international et les eaux transfrontalières
http://www.mont-blanc-leman.org/oml/dossiers/eau/cferrier/1droit_intern.html

Global and Regional International Conventions, Agreements and Commissions Global and Regional International Conventions, Agreements and Declarations.
http://www.giwa.net/links/convent.htm

Resource Documents on Environmental Law
http://www.mekonglawcenter.org/resource-download.htm

 

United Nations:

http://www.un.org/dpcsd/dsd/freshwat.htm
Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World, United Nations Secretary General, February 1997

United Nations Home Page
http://www.un.org

World Meteorological Organization- Hydrology Programme
http://www.wmo.ch/web/homs/hwrphome.html

UNESCO, International Hydrological Programme
http://www.pangea.org/orgs/unesco/

Global Environment Facility
http://www.gefweb.org

World Bank - Water conflict resolution discussion group
http://tile.net/search?words=water&lists=yes&internet=yes

http://www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank

http://www.undp.org/seed/water/
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Water

http://www.unep.org/
United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme- GEMS
http://www.cciw.ca/gems/¨

UNEP International Environmental Technology Center
http://www.unep.or.jp/

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
http://www.fao.org

http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/agl/aglw/aquastat/aquastat.htm
Information system on water in agriculture and rural development. Launched by the Land and Water Development Division of FAO

United Nations Beijing Framework for Action on Combating Desertification
http://www.un.org/esa/africa/desert.htm

 

Environmental/Water Security:

Transboundary Freshwater Disputes Database, Oregon State University,
http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/

Protection of Water in Times of Armed Conflict, Ameur Zemmali, International Red Cross
http://www.icrc.org/ICRCNEWS/3a52.htm

http://www.cdi.org/adm/EnviroShow/index.htm
Water, Land, People & Conflict, Center for Defence Information

Water as a Source of International Conflict, Kenneth D. Fredericks
http://www.rff.org/resourcs/123/fred.htm

Finding Solutions To Water Disputes, GEF, by. Mohamed T. El-Ashry
http://www.gefweb.com/GEFCEO/auwater.htm

http://www.pacinst.org
Program on Environmental Security, Pacific Institute, USA

Project on Environment, Population and Security, University of Toronto
http://utl2.library.utoronto.ca/www/pcs/eps.htm

Project on Environment, Population and Security, Online Publications, University of Toronto
http://utl2.library.utoronto.ca/www/pcs/catalog.htm

International Relations and Security Network ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/

Swiss Peace Foundation, Zurich/Berne, May 1994. Internet version,
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/fsk/encop/11/en11-con.htm

http://www.cdi.org/
Center for Defence Information

http://www.euconflict.org/
European Centre for Conflict Prevention

ENCOP, Environmental Degradation as a Cause of War Publications, Swiss Federal Institute for Technology
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/enco-ord.htm

When Are Environmental Issues Security Issues? by Brian R. Shaw.
http://wwics.si.edu/organiza/affil/WWICS/PROGRAMS/DIS/ECS/report2/shaw.htm

 

Desertification and Arid Lands:

Arid Lands Newsletter, University of Arizona
http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/ALNHome.html

http://www.cgiar.org/icarda/
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Bright Edges of the World, Exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution and UNEP
http://drylands.nasm.edu:1995/

Brunel University - Geography and Earth Science
Report of 13 May 1998 Conference on The Sahel
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/sahel.html

Club du Sahel
http://www.oecd.org/sah/anglais/qui/equipgb.htm

Desertification Information Network
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/dynamic/desert/

Earth Negotiations Bulletin, International Institute for Sustainable Development. Describes UNCCD negotiations
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/

FAO on Desertification
http://www.fao.org/desertification/DOCS/desertif.htm

International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC) Links
http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/IALC/links/1stlevel.html

International Institute for Environment and Development (iied)
Drylands Programme
http://www.oneworld.org/iied/drylands.html

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Publications
http://iisd.ca/casl/ASALProjectDetails/ASAL.html

International Network on Desertification and Drought (RIOD)
http://riod.utando.com

UNDP Office to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNSO)
http://www.undp.org/seed/unso

 

Africa

http://www.up.ac.za/academic/libarts/polsci/awiru/
African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU)

http://www.accord.org.za
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

http://www.africanwater.org
The African Water Page

http://www.wisa.co.za/
The Water Institute of South Africa

http://www.earthlife.org.za
Earth Life Africa

http://www.iucnrosa.org.zw
IUCN Regional Office for Southern Africa

http://globesa.org/freshwater.htm
Globe Southern Africa - Freshwater

South African Government - Water
http://www.gov.za/dwaf/web-pages/Documentation/Publications/Water/water.html#Anti-pollution

SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources - Development Unit
http://www.zimbabwe.net/sadc-fanr/intro.htm

SADC Water Resource Database
http://www.zamnet.zm/zamnet/alcom/wrd.htm

http://www.icon.co.zw/iwsd/resfund.htm
IWSD - Water Research Fund for Southern Africa

http://www.e4s.org.uk/biffa/ghana/whob2.html
Focus on Water conflict in West Africa

http://www.nilebasin.org
The Nile Basin Initiative

Africa International Waters
URL: www.undp.org/gef/portf/watafr.htm

Organisation for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS)
http://www.oieau.fr/anglais/international/senegal.htm

OKACOM: Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission
http://www.iwwn.com.na/namibianet/okacom/main.htm

SOAS, Water Issues Group, University of London
http://endjinn.soas.ac.uk/geography/WaterIssues/

Epupa Dam Campaign
http://www.irn.org/programs/epupa/epupa.html

http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/jan98/water.html
Southern Africa: A Region Worries About Water, James Brew

http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/MONOGRAPHS/NO%206/Solomon.html
Water and Security in Southern Africa, Hussein Solomon, Institute for Defence Policy, Published in Monograph No 6: Sink or Swim? October 1996

http://www.aaas.org/international/psd/waterpop/southaf.htm
Population Dynamics and the Emerging Competition for Water Use in the Zambezi River Basin, Rodger L. Mpande, Commutech, and Michael Tawanda, Population Studies Program, University of Zimbabwe

http://www.umgeni.co.za
Umgeni Water

 

 

Americas

http://www.awra.org/
American Water Resources Association

http://www.iwrn.net/moved.html
Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN)

http://www.riosvivos.org.br/
Ríos Vivos coalition of environmental, human rights, and indigenous groups investigating the Hidrovia project.

http://www.irn.org/programs/hidrovia/hidrovia.html
Hidrovia: Proposed Paraguay/Parana Waterway Project

http://www.cwra.org/
Canadian Water Resources Association

http://wwwdwr.water.ca.gov/
Department of Water Resources (DWR) - California Water Page

http://www.great-lakes.net/
Great Lakes Information Network

http://www.h2o-ngwa.org/
National Ground Water Association (USA)

http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/
Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (USA)

http://www2.privatei.com/~uscold/
United States Committee on Large Dams - USCOLD

http://www.info.usaid.gov/
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

http://www.epa.gov/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - (USEPA)

http://water.usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Water Resources of the United States

http://www.uswaternews.com/homepage.html
U.S. Water News

American Rivers
http://www.amrivers.org/amrivers/

http://www.cciw.ca/nwri/nwri.html
National Water Research Institute (NWRI), Canada

International Joint Commission: Canada-USA
http://www.ijc.org/agree/water.html

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Canada-USA (1972)
http://www.cciw.ca/glwqa/

Water Conflict Resolved Cooperatively: The Umatilla Basin Project, Oregon, USA
http://www.ucinet.com/~umatribe/basin.html

 

Asia

State of ASEAN Water Resources, Dr. Ramon Abracosa
http://www.aim.edu.ph/rpa/Papers/State%20of%20ASEAN's%20Water%20Resources.html

Ganges Water Sharing Treaty - A Critical Evaluation, Compiled and Edited by the Engineers Association of Bangladesh from the Ganges Water Treaty...
http://www.cyberbangladesh.org/ganges.html

Bangladesh-India: Treaty on Sharing of the Ganges Waters at Farakka
http://www.asil.org/india.htm

Farakka Dam Action Committee
http://www.cadvision.com/farakkadam/index.htm

The Indus Waters Treaty, 1960
http://208.240.90.149/cbm/sa/indswtrs.htm

From International Conflict to Water Sharing: The Indus Water Treaty Negotiation, Undala Alam, University of Durham
http://www.susx.ac.uk/Units/gec/studsumm/alam.htm

Stop the Narmada Dam Campaign
http://www.irn.org/programs/narmada/narmada.html

http://www.nextcity.com/ProbeInternational/ThreeGorges/
Probe International - Three Gorges Dam Campaign

http://www.mekongforum.org/95agree.html
Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin. 1995

http://www.mekongforum.org/
Mekong Forum

Aral Sea Basin Monitor: UNOPS Serving the Aral Sea.
http://www.unops.org/finance/waral1.html

Aral Sea Basin Project
http://www.huks.helsinki.fi/projects/aralsea2.html

Nukus Declaration on the Aral Sea Basin
http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/0927uznk.htm

Aral Sea Basin - Specific Programme for Environmental Research - INTAS /CNRS
http://www.cordis.lu/intas/src/aral00.htm

Stefan Klötzli (1994): The Water and Soil Crisis in Central Asia - a Source for Future Conflicts? ENCOP Occasional Paper No. 11
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/11/en11-con.htm

 

Australasia

http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/home.html
Water and Rivers Commission (Australia)

http://www.dwr.csiro.au/
CSIRO Land and Water Research Division

http://www.nzwwa.org.nz/
New Zealand Water and Wastes Association

The Murray-Darling Basin
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/

 

Europe

European River Network Organization
http://www.rivernet.org/

Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River
http://www.ksh.fgg.uni-lj.si/danube/envconv/index.htm

ICPR Convention for the Protection of the Rhine
http://www.iksr.org/icpr/19uk0.htm

http://www.rec.org
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe

Save the Danube Wetlands
http://www.goodpoint.com/duna.htm

http://www.zpok.hu/~jfeiler/baiamare/index.htm
Baia Mare Cyanide Spill Disaster

http://www.rec.org/REC/Announcements/yugo/contents.html
Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Military Activities During the Yugoslavia Conflict, The Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe

http://www.mont-blanc-leman.org/
Observatoire Mont Blanc Léman

http://www.rnde.tm.fr/anglais/ba/baba0006.htm
The Rhone-Mediterranean-Corsica Basin Water Data Network (RDBRMC)

The Volga: Let's Help the River
http://www.irn.org/revival/decom/orgs/LHtRinfo.htm

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
http://www.ebrd.com/

 

The Middle East

http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~mewin/
Middle East Water Information Network

Declaration on Principles for Cooperation on Water-Related Matters and New and Additional Water Resources, Multilateral Peace Process in the Middle East, Oslo, 1996
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/peace/waterdop.html

http://www.centerpeace.org/
Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation

http://ipsjps.org/html/water3.htm
Negotiating Water: Israel and the Palestinians, Sharif S. Elmusa, Institute for Palestine Studies

Middle East Water Conflicts and Directions for Conflict Resolution, Aaron T. Wolf
http://w3.pnl.gov:2080/ces/academic/midleast.htm

http://www.lcps-lebanon.org/pub/breview/br3/amery3.html
The Litani River Basin: The Politics and Economics of Water, H.A. Amery and A.A. Kubursi

http://www.nic.gov.jo/environment/rscn/rscn.html
The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Jordan

http://www.pnl.gov/ces/academic/midleas2.htm
"Hydrostrategic" Territory in the Jordan Basin: Water, War, and Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations, Aaron T. Wolf

Water Conflicts in the Middle East from a Palestinian Perspective, Applied Research Group Jerusalem
http://www.arij.org/pub/wconflct/

Water & Environment: Jerusalem and the Peace Process, Applied Research Group Jerusalem
http://www.ipcri.org/ipcri2.html

Reassessing the Middle Eastern "Peace Pipeline" in the Aftermath of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement, by Randal deShazo and John W. Sutherlin, University of New Orleans
gopher://inic.utexas.edu:70/00/menic/mebases/events/misc/water/peacepipeline/waterpipeline

Water Disputes in the Jordan River Basin, by Stephan Libiszewski, ENCOP
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/encop/13/en13.htm

http://www.arabicnews.com
Arabic News Service (in English)

http://kinghussein.gov.jo/maps_5.html
Map of Water Resources in Jordan

Water, Applied Research Group, Jerusalem
http://www.arij.org/water/

http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00qx0
Israeli Government Site on the Water Resources Working Group in the Multilateral Negotiations

http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/online.html
Journal of Palestinian Studies

http://www.pna.net/
Palestinian National Authority

Water Resources Working Group: Israel, Palestine, Jordan (Syria and Lebanon), provided by the Israeli Government
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/peace/water.html

Water Issues between Turkey, Syria and Iraq, provided by the Turkish Government
http://www.turkey.org/groupc/Water/CONTENTS.HTM

Negotiations Concerning the Euphrates-Tigris Basin, provided by the Turkish Government
http://www.turkey.org/groupc/Water/CHAPTER1/CHAP1D.HTM

http://gap.gov.tr
Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), Turkey

http://www.idrc.ca/books/focus/804/804.html
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities, edited by Eglal Rached, Eva Rathgeber and David B. Brooks

http://water.usgs.gov/exact/overview/
Executive Action Team (EXACT) Multilateral Working Group on Water

SOAS, Water Issues Group, University of London
http://endjinn.soas.ac.uk/geography/WaterIssues/

Friends of the Earth Middle East
http://www.foeme.org



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