Information is provided about water concerns and issues in the Middle East. The material includes several articles about water policy in the region, where many countries suffer from water shortages. The scarcity of water is used as a political issue and lever, particularly as population growth has historically expanded to the limits of the scarcest available resource. In the Middle East, this resource ... Full description.

Visitors can access an alphabetic index to a large variety of fresh water-related materials on water quality, usage, laws and regulations, flooding, and ecosystems. Information resources include educational materials and a "Teachers' Corner" with booklets, activities, and fact sheets are available for teachers and are ranked according to educational level. This site is sponsored by Environment Canada, ... Full description.

This website provides information on international water law and policy. The International Water Law Project offers full text of many international and regional agreements, declarations and resolutions. Regional documents are organized by continent and then in many cases by waterway to reflect agreements for a particular river basin. The case law section provides examples from the Permanent Court ... Full description.

This article from Agriculture21 cites the management practices and policies that will be necessary to avoid water crises in the coming three decades. There are links to information on raising water productivity, improving irrigation technology, and modernizing irrigation management. The text is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. Full description.

The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world, serving the diverse needs of almost two million users in south central Texas. Users can access materials that cover all aspects of the aquifer, including hydrogeology, technical, legal, and economic issues, images, endangered species, laws and regulations, and groundwater modeling. News articles, a glossary, bibliography, ... Full description.

Materials here focus on worldwide water issues and policy decisions, and discussions of ongoing projects involving conservation, drought mitigation, and solutions for small landholders. A set of tools and databases is available for evaluating irrigation results, developing scenarios for water and food supply policy decisions, and evaluating the health of fresh-water ecosystems. This site is sponsored ... Full description.

This resource is designed to educate students, through activities teachers can use, about the environmental importance of Lake Ponchartrain. The main goal is to foster a sense of stewardship in students through learning to identify environmental issues that affect the lake, offer changes, and develop solutions. Although the resource deals with the Lake Ponchartrain Basin, the activities are applicable ... Full description.

Users can read and view pictures as part of a discussion of the positive and negative impacts of dam building on the streams, rivers, and watersheds in the United States and in Egypt. Conservation measures intended to increase the availability of water for fish and wildlife are outlined, and a link to the Dam and Reservoir Impact and Information Archive is provided. This archive is an extensive collection ... Full description.

Window To My Environment (WME) is a web-based tool that provides access to a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. By entering your zip code or city/town and state WME will provide an interactive map that shows the location of regulated facilities, monitoring sites, water bodies, population density, and perspective ... Full description.

This collection of educational resources is intended to call attention to the issues of locating and preserving healthy water supplies and fighting the spread of water-borne diseases for communities in Africa. Teachers can choose from a number of lesson plans for downloading, which are arranged alphabetically by title, by grade level, or by subject. These lesson plans cover such topics as design of ... Full description.