Your Drinking Water

Find out what's in your local drinking water:
http://www.epa.gov/

Getting your drinking water analysed and choosing a treatment device:
http://muextension.missouri.edu/

Your Local Water

Find out about the state of water in your area:
http://www.scorecard.org

Locate your watershed:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/

What is a watershed?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/


Choosing Seafood

The SeaSense Database gives guidance from a variety of environmental organisations on avoiding over-fished species:
http://www.seafoodchoices.com/


Facts and Figures about Water

http://usinfo.state.gov/

"Wash your car in the car wash rather than in your driveway. Car washes are connected to water treatment systems that can handle the oil and other contaminants that rinse off of your car. If you wash your car in the driveway, these chemicals run into storm sewers which may discharge directly into a stream. Storm sewers are not equipped with the treatment facilities to handle these pollutants."
http://waterknowledge.colostate.edu/coolfact.htm


Activism

Friends of the Earth: Dam removal campaigns:
http://www.foe.org/camps/reg/nw/river/

Friends of the Earth: Protecting our waters from genetically engineered fish, including activist toolkit:
http://www.foe.org/camps/reg/nw/salmon/

The Ocean Conservancy:
http://www.oceanconservancy.org

The Groundwater Foundation: An organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for groundwater:
http://www.groundwater.org/


Water myths and stories

http://www.wateryear2003.org/


Further information on water issues

"Solutions for a Water-Short World." John Hopkins Institute.
http://www.infoforhealth.org/

Rachel's Health and Environment Weekly. It's free to subscribe.
http://www.rachel.org

The Cousteau Society: Coral Reefs, Marine Protected Areas, Whales, Fisheries.
http://www.cousteausociety.org/

Pew Oceans Commission Report 2003: The first comprehensive look at US Oceans policy in 30 years. "The Pew Ocean Commission is an 18-member independent, bipartisan panel created with a private $3.5 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission was to conduct a national dialogue on the policies needed to restore and protect the living marine resources in U.S. waters. The Commission recently submitted its findings and recommendations in a report to Congress, entitled America's Oceans: A Resource in Crisis, with the hope that they will become the basis for a new approach to managing ocean resources."
http://www.pewoceans.org/

"Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water." Maude Barlow.
http://www.amazon.com/