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Our Favorite Water Quality Websites

Water water everywhere, it's time to stop and think! Do you ever wonder about water? Where it comes from? How it gets from one place to another? How clean is it, and how can we make it cleaner? Whose water is it? And whose responsibility is it to protect this life-giving resource?

Increasingly, water quality issues are front page news. Whether in relation to set-back regulations for developers, intra-state water rights, saltwater intrusion into aquifers or groundwater pollution from hog and chicken farms, clean water is no longer something we take for granted. Reflecting this reality, scientists and researchers are addressing the need for more extensive data on Georgia's watershed, and educators are focusing more on water quality in the classroom. The internet is a vast repository of water-related information, but it can also be an intractable swamp of dead-end websites.

We've taken the time to survey many water-related internet sites with an eye towards utility and function. We have tried to avoid private sites that advocate specific political positions or have for-profit agendas. Instead, we have concentrated on educational, non-profit and governmental sites. Admittedly, some of these sites will be more useful than others, however, we feel certain that at least some sites on the following list will be helpful to you in your own water quality research. A brief abstract preceeds each entry and provides an overview of the website.