Documents
US/National
Civil Society Resources
US PIRG's state by state listing of Clean Water Act noncompliance and levels of toxic pollution.
Government Resources
US National Report on Freshwater, prepared for CSD 5 & 6 as an assessment of issues addressed in Agenda 21.
Congressional Research Service's Oceans & Coastal Resources Briefing Book (CRS is a branch of the Library of Congress providing nonpartisan research reports to members of the House and Senate. This document found courtesy of the National Council on Science and the Environment's website.)
U.S. EPA's National Water Quality Inventory- EPA report describing an assessment of a third of our rivers, lakes and estuaries and determined that 40% are too polluted for fishing and swimming. (from American Lands)
Watershed
Assessment, Tracking, and Environmental Results (WATERS)
WATERS integrates geographically
specific water quality data from state web sites and various EPA sites,
including EPA's new National Water Quality Standards Database and its
Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) Database, with the US Geological Survey's
National Hydrographic Dataset. When complete, WATERS will cover all
50 states, and contain links to data on ambient water quality, drinking
water quality, polluted runoff, fish consumption advisories, facility
discharge outfalls, and other information.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has launched its new online National Water Information System (NWISWeb): view 100 years of water data collected by the federal earth science agency, including real time streamflow and historical streamflow data integrated with historical water quality data from rivers and aquifers, historical groundwater level data, and real time water quality, precipitation and groundwater levels.
International
A comprehensive listing of international documents can be found on the Freshwater Issues - Documents Page of the Sustainable Development Issues Network (which is maintained, in part, by CitNet Fresh Water WG members).
