Association and Industry Links:

1. Canadian Groundwater Association
2. British Columbia Water & Waste Association
3. Water Supply Association of BC
4. Western Canada Water & Wastewater Association
5. Small Water Users Association of BC
6. Coastal Water Suppliers Association
7. GreenBC
8. BCWWA SWS
9. American Water Works Association
10. Canadian Association on Water Quality
11. Canadian Water Resources Association
12. Canadian Water and Wastewater Association
13. Environmental Operators Certification Program (EOCP)
14. The BC Water Stewardship Division
15. Sustainable Infrastructure Society
16. Water Quality Association (US)
17. International Association of Hydrogeologist (IAH)
18. GeoExchange BC

British Columbia and Federal Government links:

1. BC Ministry of Health Services
2. BC Ministry of Environment
3. Environment Canada

World View

The World Water Assessment Programme, pooling the resources of 23 UN agencies.

Statistics from the United Nations Environment Program.

The World Health Organization's health and sanitation database.

Water Conservation

The Australian Conservation Foundation presses for better local water management.

The Great Lakes Water Directory covers a multiplicity of issues.

IDRC is a Canadian Government-funded initiative to look at ways of reducing water demand in regions of scarcity

The Japanese group People for Rainwater Utilization

Participatory Groundwater Management

General

Canadian - Environment Canada -

Freshwater Web Site

Geological Survey of Canada

The National Water Research Institute

Saskatchewan H2O

International

International Office of Water

The World's Water. Data culled from Peter Gleick's authoritative biannual reports on the world's freshwater.

The Wonder of Water. Sponsored by Environment Canada, Parks Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Columbia Basin Trust, the two-year Wonder of Water initiative will support the development of a network of partner organizations that will share understanding and appreciation of how our country has been shaped by what water is and by what water does.

Water Utility Benchmarking Association (WUBA™) is currently a free association of public and private water utilities. WUBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the overall operations of the members.

NGOs

www.watercan.com

www.oxfam.org

Technical

Injection Wells

Send us a link to any site you think may be of interest to fellow BCGWA members. Likely candidates would be educational, government, technical, or professional sites related to water quality issues, guidelines and practices, as well as sites by designers, engineers and/or manufacturers of water technology equipment.

Current Suggested Link Listings:

Education
Water Quality & Environmental Sites
Engineering: Geology
Engineering: Hydraulics & Fluid Dynamics
Equipment: Drilling
Equipment: Water Supply & Delivery Systems
Equipment: Water Purification

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