8.3 Water for Living

Preliminary course — Water for living - from Learning Materials Production Centre, Department of Education
Links page

NSW Department of Natural Resources - from NSW Government
http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/

Water - from United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/report/04_Water.pdf

Global Distribution of the World's Water - from United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media/graphics/Zoom/4.1.jpg

State of the Environment Reports - NSW Environment Protection Authority
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/

Australia's Water - from Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia
http://www.daffa.gov.au/natural-resources/water

Properties of Water - from Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/nature/prop/e_prop.htm

Watercare - from South Australian Government
http://www.watercare.net/

Water - from NSW State of the Environment, 2006
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2006/chapter5/

Water for Life - from NSW Government
http://www.waterforlife.nsw.gov.au/

Teachers' Resources - from Watercare, South Australia
http://www.watercare.net/teachers_resources.php

Virtual River - from California State University, Los Angeles
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/VirtualRiver

Making every drop count - from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/095/095key.htm

Salinity - the awakening monster from the deep - from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/075/075key.htm

Water in Australia - from CSIRO Land and Water
http://www.clw.csiro.au/issues/water/

Water for Health - from Australian Organic Food Directory
http://www.organicfooddirectory.com.au/water.php

The close relationship between Water & Our Body - from a Water Purifier Manufacturer
http://www.be-with-you.com/dew/WaterAndOurBody.html

Water Content of Fruits and Vegetables - from University of Kentucky
http://www.ca.uky.edu/enri/pubs/enri129.pdf

Water: the Vital Fluid by J.D. Hays (April 1996) - good summary from Columbia University
http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/lithosphere/hays_tutorial_3/water.html

Desert Fauna - a fact sheet developed by the Department of the Environment and Heritage for the International Year for Deserts and Desertification
http://www.deh.gov.au/events/iydd/pubs/fauna.pdf

Desert Flora - a fact sheet developed by the Department of the Environment and Heritage for the International Year for Deserts and Desertification
http://www.deh.gov.au/events/iydd/pubs/flora.pdf

Transport in Plants - from BiologyMad
http://www.biologymad.com/master.html?http://www.biologymad.com/PlantTransport/PlantTransport.htm

Desert Animal Survival - from DesertUSA
http://desertusa.com/survive.html

Desert Plant Survival - from DesertUSA
http://desertusa.com/du_plantsurv.html

South Australian Museum: Living Health - contains teacher information and details of animal adaptations in the various climatic zones within Australia,
Click on Desert to access page
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/water/riteframe.htm

PLANT AND ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS TO THE DESERT - from Pima Community College
http://wc.pima.edu/~bfiero/tucsonecology/adaptations/adaptations_home.htm

Drinking - notes on water management by birds, from Stanford University - by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye, 1988
http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Drinking.html

Australia's Biodiversity: an overview of selected significant components - from Australian Government, Departtment of the Environment and Heritage
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/publications/series/paper2/biod_3.html#HDR6

Major Biomes of the World - prepared by Susan L. Woodward, The Virtual Geography Department Project and the Department of Geography, Radford University
(see, in particular, Desertscrub)
http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html

The water down under - groundwater, from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/100/100key.htm

Water resource planning - status of surface and groundwater plans - from national Water Commission, inlcudes an interactive maps showing surface and ground water in Australia
http://www.water.gov.au/Keymessages/WaterResourcePlanningStatusOfSurfaceAndGroundWaterPlans/index.aspx?Menu=Level1_1_4

Agriculture and salinity in NSW - from NSW Department of Primary Industries
http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/reader/salinity/dpi-salinity.htm

Managing water in NSW - from NSW Department of Natural Resources
http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/water/index.shtml

Water Audit Form - from North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance
http://www.sustainablenc.org/WaterAuditGuide.pdf

Theme 2: Biodiversity & Ecosystems - from Watercare
http://www.watercare.net/wll/bio-monitoring.html

Monitoring water quality - from Waterwatch, links for Technical Manuals for Biological Monitoring and Physical and chemical parameters
http://www.waterwatch.org.au/monitoring.html

Streamwatch - from [NSW] Community Water Quality Monitoring and Action Network
http://www.streamwatch.org.au/

OzGREEN - from Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
http://www.ozgreen.org.au/

The Great Artesian Basin - from Department of Natural Resources and Water, Queensland
http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/water/gab/

Murray Darling Basin Initiative - see, in particular, the Education Centre and the Murray Darling Tour
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/

Senior students' section - from Yarra Valley Water
http://www.yvw.com.au/waterschool/seniors.html

Australia's Artesian Basin - an Alternative view: $14 Billion down the drain each year, by Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee AO, FTSE, from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin

Salinity in Australia - from Department of the Environment and Heritage
http://www.deh.gov.au/land/pressures/salinity/index.html

The Groundwater Foundation: Kids Korner - teaching resources from The Groundwater Foundation
http://www.groundwater.org/kc/kc.html

The Groundwater Foundation: Get Informed - teaching resources from The Groundwater Foundation
http://www.groundwater.org/gi/gi.html

Managing groundwater use in the Botany area - from Department of Natural Resources
http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/water/botany_bay.shtml

UPPER NEPEAN (KANGALOON) GROUNDWATER FACT SHEET - from Sydney Catchment Authority
http://www.sca.nsw.gov.au/publications/files/KangaloonGroundwater.pdf

The Hydrologic Cycle - Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml

SUMMIT ON THE SOUTHERN MURRAY DARLING BASIN (MDB) KEY OUTCOMES - from Federal Government
http://www.pm.gov.au/docs/key_outcomes_MDB_summit.pdf

Chapter 4: Pesticides as water pollutants - from FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
http://www.fao.org/docrep/W2598E/w2598e07.htm

Chapter 3: Fertilizers as water pollutants - from FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
http://www.fao.org/docrep/W2598E/w2598e06.htm

Pesticides - from Reading University, UK
http://www.ecifm.rdg.ac.uk/pesticides.htm

Caring for our water - from Environmental Protection Agency Queensland
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/environmental_management/water/caring_for_our_water/

Water facts - a pdf file from Environment Western Australia
pdf document

The Toxic School Syndrome in Australia - from Website Chemical Awareness in Schools
http://www.netspeed.com.au/rdi/cas/toxschool.htm

Australian science tames arsenic pollution: a "natural ingredients" solution - media release from ANSTO
http://www.ansto.gov.au/info/press/pr2.html

Resources - from Water Recycle Group
http://www.waterrecycle.com.au/resource.htm

Information on water issues in the ACT - from Environment ACT
http://www.environment.act.gov.au/airandwater/water

Toxic algal blooms – a sign of rivers under stress - from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/017/017key.htm

Blue-Green Algae - from Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/1D16A81422E9F1AECA2569DE00267E43?Open

Algal Blooms - article from CSIRO: Land and Water
http://www.clw.csiro.au/staff/WebsterI/algal.html

Catchment phosphorus and Algal blooms - an information document from CSIRO
http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/technical98/tr18-98.pdf

The Balmoral Stormwater Pollution Control Project Final report - report from Mosman Council in pdf
http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/environment/report-BCSMP-stage2.pdf

Managing Western Australia's most precious resource - from Department of Water, Western Australia
http://portal.water.wa.gov.au/portal/page/portal/home

Environment - from NSW Maritime
http://www.waterways.nsw.gov.au/environment.html

Beach pollution causes - from Environment Protection Authority
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/beach/causes.htm

Water Pollution and Society - from University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/waterpollution.htm

Saving Water - from Sydney Water
http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SavingWater/

Ballast water - from Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
http://www.daffa.gov.au/fisheries/invasive/national-system#ballast

Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests - from CSIRO
http://www.marine.csiro.au/CRIMP/

Clean Water - Life Depends on It! - from Environment Canada
http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/pubs/FS/e_FSA3.htm

GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT RESPONSE TO MARINE AND FRESHWATER ALGAL Blooms - .pdf document from NSW Department of Natural Resources
http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/water/pdf/algal_guidelines_2004.pdf

Blue Green Algae: A Guide - from The Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment
http://www.waterquality.crc.org.au/dwfacts/dwfact_algae.pdf

Frequency of algal blooms - from OzEstuaries web site
http://www.ozestuaries.org/indicators/cst_algal_blooms.jsp

Algal Bloom Dynamics in the Gippsland Lakes - from EPA Victoria
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/50266/20050601/SR4.pdf

Algae & Algal Blooms found in NSW Wetlands - from Department of Natural Resources, NSW
http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/water/wetlands_facts_algae.shtml

Moore Reserve Wetlands - from Kogarah Council
http://www.kogarah.nsw.gov.au/www/html/336-moore-reserve-wetlands.asp

Stream Restoration - from North Carolina State University
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/sri/stream_rest_guidebook/guidebook.html

Willow Management for Australian Rivers - from Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
http://www.daffa.gov.au/natural-resources/vegetation/willow-management

Clean Up Australia
http://www.cleanup.com.au/au/

Save Water at Home - from Clean Up Australia
http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/LivingGreener/save-water.html

Cigarette butts and the environment - from Clean Up Australia
http://www.cleanup.org.au/PDF/au/cua-cigarette-butts-fact-sheet.pdf

Save Water 49 Ways - from American Water & Energy Savers
http://www.americanwater.com/49ways.htm

Marine Bacteria to Combat Metal Pollution - by Dr B. M. Tebo, University of California, in COASTLINES journal
http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/coastlines/97fall.pdf

Radio National: Phosphorus Free Laundry Powder - interview on ABC Earthbeat, with Professor Peter Cullen, CRC for Freshwater Ecology
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s19517.htm

The Natural Paint Place - retailer who stocks eco-friendly cleaning products
http://www.energyandwatersolutions.com.au/cleaning/cleaning.htm

How green is my Laundry Powder? - from Australian Conservation Foundation, see page 2
http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_ACFNewsletter_febPRINT.pdf

Planet Ark Washing Powder - eco-friendly washing powder from Planet Ark
Advertisement

Coastal and MarinePollution - from Department of Environment and Heritage
http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/pollution/index.html

Kentucky Waterwatch: Water Resource Monitoring - outlines Biological Monitoring and Chemical Testing in Streams, from Kentucky State Water watch
http://www.state.ky.us/nrepc/water/introtxt.htm

The Watercycle - student resource from Watercare SA
http://www.watercare.net/water_cycle.php

NSW Catchment Case Studies - from NSW State of the Environment, 1995
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/95/9_1.htm

Stormwater Trust: Urban Stormwater Program - from Environmental Protection Agency, NSW
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/stormwater/usp/index.htm

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