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Diseased Passage - Article from Scientific American describes how Mexicans risk their lives emigrating illegally to California through the highly polluted New River and why this is driving new moves to clean up the waterway.
 
EPA's Surf Your Watershed - Environmental Protection Agency's service to help citizens locate environmental information about their local regions.
 
Energy Production, Sprawl Threaten America's Rivers - Energy production is slowly strangling some of America's most beloved rivers and the species that rely on them, a new report charges. News story from Environment News Service.
 
Environment Agency of England and Wales - Regulates air and water pollution problems.
 
Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland - National Freshwater Quality Database - Web interface to database of water quality in Ireland. Interactive maps and graphs show water quality for rivers and lakes throughout the country. Also includes links to reports on inland water quality. (Requires Java 1.1 browser.)
 
European Rivers Network: RiverNet - Mainly European information on river-basins, ecological projects, organizations working on rivers, and threats to rivers. Includes comprehensive page of European river links. Multilingual site.
 
Flood of Protest: Leave our Rivers Alone - Special issue of New Internationalist magazine with numerous articles about river activism around the world. Includes articles about the Mekong and the Nile, an interview with International Rivers Network founder Phil Williams, and several articles about the international anti-dam movement.
 
Fluvial Research - Small environmental consultancy specialising in applied fluvial geomorphology, catchment hydrology, and erosion and sediment management. Based in Brisbane, Australia.
 
Four Zambezi River Nations Make Joint Conservation Plans - ENS news story describing a new regional conservation project based around Africa's Zembezi river, launched by the four countries that share the waterway, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
 
Fox/Wolf Rivers Environmental History Project - Uses maps, stories, and photos to tell the history of Northeast Wisconsin's Fox and Wolf Rivers. The emphasis is on environmental history and how people have used, abused, and protected rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
 
Freshwater Data Tables: World Resources Institute - Definitive statistical tables from World Resources 2000-2001 covering Freshwater Resources and Withdrawals, Groundwater and Desalinization, and Major Watersheds of the World. (Tables are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format only.)
 
Freshwater Resources - Rivers - Description of several river resources, including the journal "People and the Planet - Rivers of Life." Includes links to essays about rivers and water by several international activists and the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
 
Friends of The River - State-wide river Californian conservation group. Provides public education, activist training and organizing, and expert advocacy to influence public policy decisions on land, water, and energy management issues. Site includes journals and reports and latest campaign news.
 
Friends of the Buffalo Niagara Rivers - A non-profit corporation based in New York, dedicated to preserving and restoring the biological and cultural heritage of the Buffalo and Niagara Rivers.
 
Friends of the River Narmada - A solidarity network for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement) and other similar grassroots struggles in India.
 
Futafriends - Conservation Efforts in Southern Chile - Grassroots community group campaigning to defend the Futaleufu River in Chile against a proposed hydroelectric power plant. Site includes background information, details of sponsors, and information on how to help the campaign.
 
Georgia River Network - Dedicated to the conservation of Georgias waters. Help people protect and restore their rivers and watersheds. Foster on-the-ground restoration, policy work, and education campaigns for the protection of rivers for the economic, recreational, biological, and spiritual values.
 
Glen Canyon Action Network - A network of individuals and organizations dedicated to restoring Glen Canyon and the Colorado River. Its mission is to prevent further damage to the Colorado River watershed and surrounding areas, reverse damage that has already occurred, and enhance public awareness of river and wetlands protection and restoration.
 
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) - Award-winning, international education program that involves young people in hands-on river education, conservation, and restoration projects.
 
Grand River Conservation Authority - The Grand River Conservation Authority manages vital land and water resources in the Grand River watershed. The GRCA carries out this work in partnership with its member municipalities and the Province of Ontario.
 
 
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