You can download this issue, and previous ones, free at www.swhydro.arizona.edu/

Water students at the University of California-Davis have created a water 'blog' www.siswebs.org/water/. It's actually more a social bookmarking WWW site for the water resources community than a traditional blog. All can particpate.

EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds released a online document this week to help communities, watershed organizations, and local, state, tribal, and federal environmental agencies develop and implement watershed plans to meet water quality standards and protect water resources.Visit: www.epa.gov/owow/nps/watershed_handbook/

For those of you interested in water, sanitation, and waste issues in developing countries, the quarterly UK journal Waterlines recently unveiled its new look with the January 2008 issue. It is now a refereed journal, with full-length peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, online access, etc. I have found this to be an invaluable publication, and it looks to be even better now. Get all the information at:practicalactionpublishing.org/

If you decide to subscribe, use your home address. If you put your work address down, they will charge you the institutional rate, which is double the personal rate.

Today - April 25 - is world World Malaria Day. This is a disease that we in the USA don't think much about - it's been virtually eradicated from the USA for many years. But in the developing world, it is a scourge; 3,000 children per day die from this disease, most of them in Africa.This is a preventable disease - a device as simple as a bed screen (mosquito net) works wonders.Visit the WWW site to see what you can do.www.rbm.who.int/worldmalariaday/

Oregon State University is offering a new Professional/Graduate Certificate in Water Conflict Management and Transformation. This program is designed to provide decision-makers and water professionals with the required specialized resources and skills that go beyond the traditional physical systems approach to water resources management. It will explicitly integrate human, policy and scientific dimensions of water resources within the framework of governance and sustainability. Visit: www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/new/training/certificate.html

Brown and Caldwell has published a special Earth Day edition of its Water News: www.bcwaternews.com/NationalWaterNews/earthday/EarthDay2008.htm

The American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources recognizes the following paper submissions as the Best Papers prepared for the 37th Annual Conference on Environmental Law (Keystone), 26th Annual Water Law Conference, 15th Section Fall Meeting, and the 36th Annual Conference on Environmental Law. Each author was presented with a certificate of recognition and a Section publication as a token of appreciation for their outstanding submissions. You can see the papers and download them free here:www.abanet.org/environ/best/

The final report of the Snake-Columbia Basin Energy-Water Summit held in late June 2007 has been released and is available at:aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/04/snake-columbia.html

The American Water Resources Association's (www.awra.org) Summer Specialty Conference will be held in Virginia Beach, VA, June 30 - July 2, 2008. Information and the preliminary program are available here: www.awra.org/meetings/Virginia_Beach2008/

The April 2008 issue of H2OSU, the newsletter of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University, is now available at water.oregonstate.edu/newsletter/20080401.htm

From Tara Lohan (tara@alternet.org), Managing Editor of AlterNet:

On the heels of World Water Day last week, we launched AlterNet's new free weekly email newsletter dedicated to water issues. You can sign up here and get the latest news, commentary, video and more in your inbox every Thursday. Thanks to those of you who have already joined and please feel free to email me with story ideas and other feedback.You can also sign up here for AlterNet's weekly environment newsletter.View AlterNet's water page and environment page.

An online, user-friendly map that tracks flood conditions has been developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).As expected rains drive flood waters higher along the Mississippi River Valley, USGS crews are in the field collecting data needed to update the flood maps, prepare forecasts, manage the flood and warn communities.This new system is part of the USGS WaterWatch suite of web-based streamflow and can be accessed at:water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/

For the complete story, visit aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/04/bush-administra.html

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on a draft strategy that describes the potential effects of climate change on clean water, drinking water, and ocean protection programs and outlines EPA actions to respond to these effects. Visit the National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change www.epa.gov/water/climatechange/. For more information contact Roxanne Smith at 202 564 4355 or smith.roxanne@epa.gov. The comment period is open for 60 days.

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USGS, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has released an online report on the occurrence of 11 priority water-quality constituents of possible health concern in domestic wells located in 16 States across the USA (pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5213/)

The 20 March 2008 issue of Naturewww.nature.com/news/specials/water/index.html is entitled Water: Under Pressure. You may have to pay for full article access/downloads.

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Tony Allan of King's College London has been awarded the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize, considered by many to be water's Nobel Prize. Allan developed the concent of "virtual water" (www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php) in 1993. Read more:www.siwi.org/sa/node.asp

This is a great video from KNME-TV www.knme.org in Albuquerque about water issues on the Navajo reservation:www.knme.org/water/video.php

The American Water Resources Association (www.awra.org) will hold its 2008 annual conference in New Orleans, 17-20 November 2008.The Call for Abstracts is now out at: www.awra.org/meetings/NewOrleans2008/index.html. Abstracts are due 12 May.

Do you have trouble explaining/visualizing surface water/ground water interactions? If so, you might consider a new DVD from the National Ground Water Association (www.ngwa.org) that nicely illustrates these interactions with a 20-minute animated DVD. It features both humid zone and semi-arid zone tracks.It costs $40 for nonmembers and $20 for members.Order it at: www.ngwa.org/STORE/bookdetails/GroundWaterSurfaceWaterInteractiveRolesDVD.aspx Paste this link if it is not hot. Alternatively, go to www.ngwa.org, 'NGWA Store', then 'Bookstore', then 'Featured Items'.

Here's a link to an interesting visual representation of the total amount of water and air on the earth:blog.phiffer.org/post/27344630

The current (March/April 2008; vol. 7, no. 2) of Southwest Hydrology features 'Too Much Salt?', articles on salinity management, TDS in ground water, desalination in the West, deep-well injection, salt loading to streams, etc. As always, you can download this (and other issues) for free:www.swhydro.arizona.edu/archive/V7_N2/

This year marks the centennial of the landmark Supreme Court case, Winters v. United States, which established Federal reserved rights - the Winters Doctrine. To commemorate the event, the Utton Transboundary Resources Center (uttoncenter.unm.edu) and the American Indian Law Center, Inc.(lawschool.unm.edu/AILC/) will sponsor a symposium on The Winters Centennial: Will Its Commitment to Justice Endure?. The symposium will be 9-12 June 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, just north of Albuquerque. Complete information is at: uttoncenter.unm.edu/winters_conference.html

Several days ago I posted an item about a free water resources e-journal. Here is a new,open-access hydrology journal, The Open Hydrology Journal: bentham.org/open/tohydj/

The March 2008 Newsletter of the Institute for Water and Watersheds is available at water.oregonstate.edu/newsletter/20080301.htm OSU now has the Middle East Water Collection:digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/client/mewaters/index.html Public domain materials are available online; copyrighted materials will be placed online as permission is obtained.

Just published by Western Progress:A New Western Water Agenda: Opportunities for Action in an Era of Growth and Climate Change, by Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Denise D. Fort. Available at: www.westernprogress.org/files/New_Western_Water_Agenda.pdf

The Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (environment.yale.edu/)recently published a report based on its November 2006 conference, Global Perspectives on Large Dams.You can download a pdf here: environment.yale.edu/publication-series/environment_and_development/5522/global-perspectives-on-large-dams/

Available at:unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001497/149754E.pdf

A new electronic scientific journal has just been launched: Water Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Water, Politics, and DevelopmentFor details on its scope and editorial policy, visit:www.water-alternatives.org You can register for email alerts at that site. The first issue will appear on or about 1 June 2008. There will be free access to all articles.