Water Resources Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing factual information on Water Resources:

   • 1.1 Institutions addressing Water Resources
   • 1.2 Some water resources news sites
   • 1.3 Other websites
2. Partner links

1. Factual links

1.1 Institutions addressing Water Resources

• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has an extensive portal on water, and hosts the World Water Assessment Program (WWAP):
  www.unesco.org/water/index.shtml 
• The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Water Development and Management Unit presents information on the management of Water, and hosts Aquastat, an extensive database on water resources: www.fao.org/nr/water/ 
• The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) dedicates part of its website to freshwater and provides all kinds of useful links at:
  www.unep.org/themes/freshwater/ 
• UN-Water is the official United Nations mechanism for follow-up of the water-related decisions reached at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Millennium Development Goals: www.unwater.org/flashindex.html 
• The World Health Organization (WHO) provides information on water, sanitation and health: www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/ 
• The Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission publishes its information on water at:
  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/index_en.htm 
• The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy institute that contributes to international efforts to find solutions to the world’s escalating water crisis:
  www.siwi.org 
• The Global Water Partnership is a working partnership among all those involved in water management: government agencies, public institutions, private companies, professional organizations, multilateral development agencies and others. Its mission is to "support countries in the sustainable management of their water resources":
  www.gwpforum.org/ 
• The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, whose mission is “the conservation and wise use of all wetlands […] as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world”: www.ramsar.org/ 
• The World Bank addresses water resources at:
  http://web.worldbank.org/water/ 

1.2 Some water resources news sites

• Science daily provides scientific news about water and water resources:
  www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_climate/water/ 

1.3 Other websites

• The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) presents its Freshwater Programme at:
  www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/freshwater/index.cfm 
• The Water Programme of the World Conservation Union (IUCN):
  www.iucn.org/themes/wani/ 
• The European Water Partnership, a forum for all stakeholders to exchange views and find solutions for the water challenges in Europe :
  www.ewp.eu/ 

2. Partner links

Web pages of GreenFacts' partners addressing Water Resources:

• The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC, provides multilingual information on Water Resources at:
  www.sdc.admin.ch/en/Home/Themes/Water 
• The Development Gateway provides a portal on water management at:
  http://topics.developmentgateway.org/water