This reading list consists of books with conservation themes about water and includes scientific treatments of water pollution and conservation. The list is divided into three sections: Elementary School, Middle School, and High School/Adult. Title, author's name, and a brief description of each book is provided. A few of the books for younger readers are available in Spanish. Full description.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's watershed site is a comprehensive collection of materials on all aspects of watershed regulation and protection. Users can access introductory material on watershed protection approaches, regulations and policies, training materials and courses, funding information, publications, databases, and an outreach section with downloads and materials for kids. Full description.

This collection of databases is intended to aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution. The searchable collections include data such as case studies, freshwater treaties from 1820 to 2001, events concerning historical water relations from 1948 to 1999, a register of international river basins, and information on interstate water compacts in the United States. ... Full description.

This EPA site is a small portal to a variety of groundwater and drinking education resources. Major topics include local drinking water, source water protection, drinking water standards, public drinking water systems and underground injection control. The Kids Stuff portion of this site has games and activities, kid's health, classroom activities and experiments, and a Spanish language section. There ... Full description.

This site is a special section of the Groundwater Foundation, dedicated to youth awareness and involvement with groundwater protection. There are tutorials, games, experiments, clubs, festivals, and "universities" designed expressly for students. Site pages: What is Groundwater, Kids Can Protect Groundwater Too, Easy Ways to Conserve H2O, Cool Groundwater Activity, The Awesome Aquifer Club, Meet G.W. ... Full description.

A global hydrological database is considered essential for research and application-oriented hydrological and climatological projects at global, regional and basin scales. This includes water balance studies, investigation of trends in long-term hydrological time series, coupling of hydrological and meteorological models, flux of fresh water and pollutants into the oceans, and the coupling of runoff ... Full description.

In this lesson, students will examine the challenges of balancing development and land conversion with the fiscal, technical and political challenges of addressing nutrient loading. They will have the opportunity to examine these issues based on real data and maps from their own watersheds. In Activities 1 and 2 students will compare the nitrogen loads when development occurs inside and outside the ... Full description.

The Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET) was developed to help educate local officials and other concerned citizens about water resources. InterWET gives a technical and multi-perspective response to local watershed issues, using as a case study the Spring Creek Watershed in central Pennsylvania. It can be used as a stand-alone educational resource and as part of larger watershed educational ... Full description.

Supplemental to The World's Water book by Peter Gleick, this site offers data on the world's freshwater resources and uses. Tables and maps provide information on quantity and quality issues including data on access to safe drinking water; waterborne disease outbreaks; desalination capacity; as well as hydroelectric capacity and production. There is also a unique chronology documenting the historical ... Full description.

Scorecard provides environmental maps with a pollution locator to search by area, for the following subjects: criteria air pollutants, hazardous air pollutants, lead hazards, lead contamination, animal waste from factory farms, toxic releases from industrial facilities, the Clean Water Act, watershed indicators, and setting environmental priorities. There are sections for chemical profile searches, ... Full description.