"Water Pressure" is National Geographic Online's feature page on freshwater issues, as part of its "Challenges for Humanity" series. The feature includes a magazine article, image gallery, suggestions for how individuals and conserve water, and additional

The American West, blessed with an abundance of earth and sky but cursed with a scarcity of life's most fundamental need, has long dreamed of harnessing all its rivers to produce unlimited wealth and power. In Rivers of Empire, award-winning historian Dona

From the introduction: "...The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need to establish water as a human right and thereby raise the right to water to the status of customary international law. Human rights law is the best approach for ensuring people

This webpage is designed to provide useful information about ground-water resources of the Nation and ground-water activities of the US Geological Survey. It includes statistical data, publications, and other resources.

Target Grades: General Interest, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 NASA’s Observatorium Web site is a fascinating Internet window to the best of NASA’s Earth and space knowledge. It combines years of NASA exploration and discovery with the latest We

... than a restaurant, and I spent $70,000 on a water reclamation system. We want ... that the hospital uses between 100,000-150,000 gallons of water a day. "At ... installation runs between $3,000-$5,000. Of course, the success of a

... explored in the book is Arizona's Groundwater Management Act. Arizona is not alone ... is the water bank, which encourages groundwater recharge of surplus surface water

... total withdrawals by source (i.e., groundwater, surface water, desalinated water),

... tied to the management of shared groundwater, and next critically analysing the

This page contains a collection of useful articles -- published in New Internationalist magazine in March 2003 -- related to world freshwater resources. Topics include the effects of climate change on African water, dams, water-efficient toilets in China,