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WaterWideWeb
Water is destiny
No water, no life
All the water on Earth
Water, a global priority
Water and disaster risk
Water innovation summit
Water as a global system
The coming blue revolution
The renaissance of hydrology
Water and the green economy
The water footprint of humanity
Water & food in the 21st century
The precious commodity of water
The Blue Planet's new water budget
Water for sustainabale development
Water was plentiful in the early universe
Where does water go when it doesn't flow?
Water security and the global water agenda
The cosmic chemistry that gave rise to water
Global water partnership - how can we adapt?
A new global warming culprit: dam drawdowns
The Impact of global change on water resources
Groundwater and SDGs - analysis of interlinkages
Water for development: charting a water wise path
How much water is there on, in, and above the Earth
Earth's freshwater future: extremes of flood and drought
Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide
Hit-and-run heist of water by terrestrial planets in the early Solar System
Changing the history of the Earth: the role of water in The Anthropocene
New solar technology could produce clean drinking water for millions in need
The potential for snow to supply human water demand in the present and future
Argonne's powerful X-rays key to confirming water source deep below Earth's surface
Shifts in global water systems - markers of a new geological epoch: The Anthropocene
Successful rainwater harvesting systems combine new technology with old social habits
Impending water crisis:
Water: prepare to face shocks
World confronts serious water crisis
World has not woken up to water crisis
Growing calls for water to be prioritised
Four billion people facing severe water scarcity
World's water resources face mounting pressure
Water maps spark concern about 'liquid gold rush'
Declining snowpacks may cut many nations' water
The global water crisis: addressing an urgent security issue
The new system that uses sound to alleviate water shortage
Population growth could outpace water supply by mid-century
Global freshwater consumption crossing its planetary boundary
More tha 500 million people might face increasing water scarcity
Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20-21st centuries
Is physical water scarcity a new phenomenon? Global assessment of water shortage over last two millenia
Water reports and assessments:
CDP global water report 2018
World water development report 2018
UN world water development report WWDR4
WMO Bulletin Vo 67 (1) - special Issue on water
Freshwater resources and terrestrial ecosystems
Water and jobs: UN world water development report 2016
Water footprint assessment: evolvement of a new research field
Assessment of the state of hydrological services in developing countries
UN 2018 World water development report - nature based solutions for water
Water Science Software Institute: agile and open source software development
Wastewater, the untapped resource: UN World Water Development Report 2017
Progress report on GEO inland and near-coastal water quality remote sensing working group
Water monitoring & management programs:
UN: analysis
UN water policy brief
Water for a sustainabale world
Monitoring framework for water
State of watershed payments - 2012
Interview with Ben Braga - UN water activities
New insights into managing our water resources
Earth observation for water resource managemen
Experts mull global system to monitor water resources
Improving water resouces management from the ground
Improving water resource management with satellite data
The role of engineering in sustainable water management
A global water supply reservoir yield model with uncertainty analysis
Virtual water transfers unlikely to redress inequality in global water use
WHO/UNICEF joint monitoring programme for water supply and sanitation
Global analysis and assessment of sanitation and drinking water GLAAS 2012
Integrated water resources management: balancing views and improving practice
Discrepancies between satellite and global model estimates of land water storage
Scientists can predict water storage beyond 2-5 years over global semiarid regions
Deep words, shallow words - an initial analysis of water discourse in 4 decades of UN declarations
Optimization framework for operation and design of systems with different alternative water sources
Short-term water management decisions: user needs for climate, weather and hydrologic information
Transboundary water management:
Blue Gold: the coming water wars
Risk of water wars rises with scarcity
Water and peace: made in Switzerland
Measuring transboundary water cooperation
Ground water depletion driving global conflicts
Science-based transboundary water management
Transboundary waters: sharing benefits, sharing responsibilities
Checklist for contingency planning for accidents affecting transboundary waters
UN: a global synopsis of groundwater science and transboundary management
Water & climate change:
Water: climate risk knowledge
Impact of fires on water quality
Climate change is wild card in water security
Adapting urban water systems to climate change
Dialogs for water and climate change: call to action
Climate change, water and adaptation - some fundamental reflections
Web technologies help to tackle climate change effects on water resources
Human impacts on terrestrial hydrology: climate change versus pumping and irrigation
Handbook on climate change and disaster resilient water, sanitation and hygiene factors
Protecting people, infrastructures, economies, and ecosystems: water management in climate change
Water in the city:
Water in the city
Water and urbanization
Sustainable cities water index
One in four of world's big cities water-stressed
Simple soil mixture reverses toxic stormwater effects
It takes a village - and much more - to quench megacity water demands
Water treatment methods may unintentionally generate harmful chemicals
World's largest cities depend on evaporated water from surrounding lands
Megacity precipitation sheds reveal teleconnected water security challenges
Cities face dramatic increase in water treatment spending when watersheds are developed
Cleaner & safer water:
Water is more polluted than tests say
Fruit peel may help millions get safer water
Bacteria in drinking water are key to keeping it clean
Leaf-mimicking device harnesses light to purify water
New way for removing phosphorous from wastewater
Septic tanks aren't keeping poo out of rivers and lakes
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA)
Space radar helps track underground water pollution risk
Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers
Human activities trigger hypoxia in freshwaters around the world
Safe water and healthy water services in a changing environment
Contamination source determination in water distribution networks
The potential for atmospheric water harvesting to accelerate household access to safe water
Groundwater:
Artificial groundwater recharge
Groundwater fate and climate change
Groundwater for emergency situations
Laser reveals water's secret life in soil
Vital groundwater depleted faster than ever
Satellites reveal major shifts in global freshwater
Calculating recharge of groundwater more precisely
Breakthrough provides picture of underground water
Scientists discover vast undersea freshwater reserves
New technology will provide super-precise groundwater models
What are the prospects for sustaining high-quality groundwater?
Origins and bioavailability of dissolved oorganic matter in groundwater
Groundwater governance: key challenges in applying the global framework for action
An integrated management approach to groundwater, aquifers, surface water and river flows
Assessment of transboundary aquifers of the world - vulnerability arising from human water use
Electricity for groundwater use: constraints and opportunities for adaptive response to climate change
Reusable water:
Is effluent the water of the future?
Reduce, reuse, recycle: safe for water?
Scientists reveal key insights into emerging water purification technology
Desalination:
Freshwater from saltwater using only solar energy
Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water
Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry
Anti-fouling graphene-based membranes for effective water desilination
Chemists work to desalt the ocean for drinking water, one nanoliter at a time
3D electron microscopy uncovers the complex guts of desalination membranes
A carbon neutral solution for desalination? Maybe so by tapping into geothermal
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs
Regional:
South & Central America:
Mexico City, parched and sinking, faces a water crisis
The ancient Peruvian water mystery solved from space
The demise of the Mayan civilization: water shortage can destroy cultures
Satellite remote sensing for water resources management: sustainable development in data-poor regions
Advanced technology leads to discovery of how an ancient Central American civilization conserved water
North America:
Canada:
Canada's Water InfoStream
USA:
Thirsty for answers
USGS: water budgets
US Water Utility Climate Alliance
Managing freshwater across the US
Groundwater depletion in the US 1900-2008
The importance of water to the US economy
America's water risk: water stress and climate variability
Time is now for a new revolution in urban water systems
Two major US aquifers have high levels of natural uranium
A new map of the US created from where we get our water
Informing water policy with large-scale, high fidelity simulation
Recent events hilghight the the need to get the US dams in line
US commitments to action on building a sustainable water future
Sectoral contributions to surface water stress in the coterminus US
Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off US Northeast
A comprehensive analysis and approach to US watershed management
EPA Adaptive response framework for drinking water and wastewater utilities
USGS details effects of climate change on water availablility in 14 US river basins
Trends in stream nitrogen concentrations for forested reference catchments across the USA
Influence of basin characteristics of US interbasin transfer water problems: displacing a problem
The US water data gap - a survey of state-level water data platforms to inform a national water portal
Water use for electricity in the US: an analysis of reported and calculated water use information for 2008
US West:
California water dynamics
Say goodbye to Phoenix and the American West
Where the water goes - story of the Colorado River
Clearing up confusion on future of Colorado River flows
How climate change will affect Western US ground water
NASA opens new era in measuring western US snowpack
Amid California drought, Cadiz plans to pump desert water
The unprecedented water crisis of the American Southwest
Water, climate change, and sustainability in the Southwest US
Why 96, million black balls are inside this Los Angeles reservoir
Satellites show 'total' California water storage at a near-decade low
Mapping water availability, projected use and cost in the western US
Benefits and economic costs of managed aquifer recharge in California
Warmer spring causing loss of snow cover throughout Rocky Mountains
The California drought is just the beginning of a national water emergency
Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threatens US food security
Groundwater loss and aquifer system compaction in San Jaoquin Valley during 2012-2015 drought
Asia:
Water problems in Asia's future
Asian water development outlook 2013
Asia, US plains facing water extraction crisis
The impact of water on business in Singapore
Massive groundwater pumping in Asia may poison millions
Metaguidelines for water and climate change - for practioners in Asia and the Pacific
Climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment of water resources systems in Bangaladesh
India:
Sun-powered desalination for villages in India
China:
China's hidden water footprint
Modeling Beijing's water crisis
Towards a water and energy secure China
Chinese government sees its own refelection in water criisis
China's South-to-North water diversion project delivers first water
New risk model sheds light on arsenic risk in China's groundwater
China plans 1000-km tunnel to take Brahmaputra water to Xinjiang
Eco-Compensation for watershed services in the Peoples Republic of China
Small dams on Chinese river harm environment more than expected, study finds
Europe:
Water's role in the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
Swiss water supply assured despite shrinking glaciers
Water resources in Europe in the context of vulnerability
Chemical pollution of European waters is stronger than anticipated
More than half of EU surface waters below 'good' ecological status
Assessing climate Impacts on the quality and quantity of water (ACQWA)
Water in Europe: nutrient and heavy metal pollution 'decoupling' from growth
Water management in Europe faces rising challenges as ecosystems weaken
Whaley Bridge dam collapse is a wake-up call: concrete infrastructure will not last forever without care
Middle East:
Ancient water underlies ancient Egypt
Middle East has lost a Dead Sea's worth of water
Aquifer discovery in Iraq - a water wizard for the planet
Maplecroft identifies Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as world’s most water stressed countries
Africa:
Wars of water (South Africa)
Rural Kenya harvests water from fog
Kenya aquifers discovered in dry Turkana region
Water development in the drylands of the Horn of Africa
'Sand dams' bank water for dry season in semi-arid Kenya
How satellite images could improve water management in Africa
Implementing zonal management approach to urban water supplies
The urban-rural water interface: a preliminary study in Burkina Faso
CDP Water disclosure South Africa Report 2011 - assessing the value of water
Effect of climate change on investments in the water resources sector: in developing countries
Australia:
Ensuring Australia's water supplies under climate change
Climate change adaptation and the Australian urban water industry
Indigenous Australians are excluded from managing water on their own land
Drought and climate change are driving high water prices in the Murray-Darling Basin