Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
guarantee that it has happened. You should be wary
of treating everything read from the World Wide
Web as being correct.
The websites listed here are general sources of
hydrological information that may enhance the
reading of this topic. The majority of addresses are
included for the web links provided within their
sites. The web addresses were up to date in early
2007 but may change in the future. Hopefully there
is enough information provided to enable the use of
a search engine to locate updated addresses.
http://www.hydrologynz.org.nz/
Home site for the New Zealand Hydrological
Society: has a links page with many hydrological
links.
http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/fe/watershed
Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology Team at
Oregon State University: this has many good
links and information on the latest research.
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (formerly
Institute of Hydrology) in the UK: a hydro-
logical research institute. There is a very good
worldwide links page here.
http://water.usgs.gov
Water Resources Division of the United States
Geological Survey (USGS): provides information
on groundwater, surface water and water quality
throughout the USA.
http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov
Global Hydrology Resource Centre: a NASA site
with mainly remote sensing data sets of relevance
for global hydrology.
http://www.whycos.org/
WHYCOS is a World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) programme aiming at improving the
basic observation activities, strengthening inter-
national cooperation and promoting free exchange
of data in the field of hydrology.This website
provides information on the System, projects,
technical materials, data and links.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/di
seases/en/
This World Health Organization (WHO) section
contains fact sheets on over twenty water-related
diseases, estimates of the global burden of water-
related disease, information on water require-
ments (quantity, service level) to secure health
benefits, and facts and figures on water, sanitation
and hygiene links to health.
http://www.unesco.org/water/water_links/
A comprehensive set of hydrological links that can
be searched under different themes (e.g. droughts,
floods), geographic regions or organisations.
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
(IAHS): a constituent body of the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG),
promoting the interests of hydrology around the
world. This has a useful links page.
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~hubert/glu/aglo.htm
Part of the IAHS site, this provides a glossary of
hydrological terms (in multiple languages).
http://www.worldwater.org
The World's Water, part of the Pacific Institute for
Studies in Development, Environment, and
Security: this is an organisation that studies
water resource issues around the world. There are
some useful information sets here.
http://www.ucowr.siu.edu/
Universities Council on Water Resources: 'uni-
versities and organizations leading in education,
research and public service in water resources'.
Disseminates information of interest to the water
resources community in the USA.
http://www.ewatercrc.com.au/
Ewater is the successor to the previous Cooperative
Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology:
an Australian research initiative that focuses
on tools and information of use in catchment
management.
http://www.wsag.unh.edu/
Water Systems Analysis Group at the University of
New Hampshire: undertakes a diverse group
of hydrological research projects at different
scales and regions. Much useful information and
many useful links.
