Sustainable Solutions for an Overused World
UNM/LA E&PS 110 and CE 500, spring 2005

Internet Resources on Water

• Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke (2002). Blue Gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water. PDF, 428 KB


• Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World, by the Transnational Institute and the Corporate Europe Observatory.


• Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security Selected parts of The World's Water, 2002-2003, together with much other information and many links. See particularly Sustainable Use of Water: California Success Stories (1999).


• The World Water Development Report. Water for People, Water for Life. The United Nations. Each chapter a separate PDF file. At the end of each chapter is a list of useful web sites.


• T. Shah, D. Molden, R. Sakthivadivel and D. Seckler (2000). The Global Groundwater Situation: Overview of Opportunities and Challenges. International Water Management Institute.


• Alleta Belin, Consuela Bokum and Frank Titus (2002). Taking Charge of Our Water Destiny: A Water Management Policy Guide for New Mexico in the 21st Century. 1000 Friends of New Mexico. (PDF, 856 KB)


• Jemez y Sangre Water Planning Council Excellent single source for local information including selected parts of the Jemez y Sangre regional water plan.


• Jemez y Sangre regional water plan (2003) from the State Engineer's Office.


• Richard Koch and David Rogers (2003). Water Supply at Los Alamos, 1998-2001 LA-13985-PR. PDF, 3.1 MB (large!)


• Proposed Water Conservation Program for Los Alamos County, February 16, 2005. (PDF, 160 KB)


• Agenda 21, Chapter 18


• Lester R. Brown (2005). Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures.


• John McCarthy. The Problem of Fresh Water (FAQ)


• Kristin Komives (1999). Designing Pro-Poor Water and Sewer Concessions: Early Lessons from Bolivia (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2243)


• Whose Water? Special issue of YES! magazine


• Public Citizen. Water for All Download a Flash movie about water privatization. Other information too, of course.


• Anil Netto (2005). Private Sector Still Eyeing to Own Every Drop.


• National Resources Defense Council on water.


• USGS Water Resources Information


• New Mexico Water Conservation Program


• Water conflicts. The table from The World's Water (Gleick, 2002) is kept up to date here.


• The Blue Planet Project (Canada)


• Water Justice (organization)


• Environmental Justice Coalition for Water


• The Man Who Farms Water, Brad Lancaster, reprinted from the Permaculture Drylands Journal (1996). Water harvesting in Zimbabwe, with some nice links at the bottom of the page.

Other pages for Sustainable Solutions course:

• Home
• What is Sustainability
• Climate Change
• Fossil fuels and alternatives
• Food and agriculture
• Water
• Money and finance
• Tax and subsidy shifting
• Beyond growth and consumerism
• Globalization and localization
• Building Community