These provide simple, easy to follow information about important water and livelihoods issues. Please contact us if you would like to add (or link) any to our site.

1. Some basic information about groundwater

1.1 The water cycle

1.2 What is groundwater?

1.3River basins and groundwater catchments

1.4 Using groundwater

1.5 Measuring groundwater

1.6 Groundwater quality and vulnerability

1.7 Ownership of groundwater

2. Watershed development

2.1 DFID Key Sheet for Sustainable Livelihoods 'Participatory Watersed Development'

3. Wetlands and Livelihoods

3.1 General

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
www.ramsar.org

The World Wildlife Fund International
www.wwg.org

Wetlands International
www.wetlands.org/

The wetland and water resource pages of the IUCN
www.iucn.org/themes/wetlands/

Wetland action for sustainable livelihoods and resource systems
www.wetlandaction.org/

International Water Management Institute
www.iwmi.cgiar.org

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
www.wwt.org.uk/

The Nature Conservancy
www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/

International Institute for Environmental Development
www.iied.org/

Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations
www.fao.org/

3.2 Region/Country Specific

Thailand Development Research Institute
www.info.tdri.or.th/

The Southern African Development Community wetland site
www.sadc-wetlands.org/index.cfm

Asian Wetland Inventory
www.wetlands.org/awi/

Environment Australia, Wetlands
www.wetlands.org/awi/

Kushiro International Wetland Centre, Japan
www.kiwc.net/

US Environment Protection Agency, Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
www.epa.gov/OWOW/

Uganda National Wetlands Programme
www.ugandawetlands.org/

Hadejia-Nguru Wetlands Conservation Project, Nigeria
www.iucn.org/themes/wetlands/hadnguru.html

WWF South Pacific Wetlands Programme
www.wwfpacific.org.fj/solomons_wetlands.htm

Canadian International Development Agency
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index.htm

Wetlands of Nepal
http://www.wetlandnepal.org/contents/paf/

Argentina, Sustainable use of wetland resources
www.unisi.it/wetland/

3.3 Universities

University of Huddersfield Wetlands and Natural Resources Research Group (WeNReG)
www.wetlands.hud.ac.uk/

University College London Wetland Research Unit (WRU)
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/%7Ejthompso/wru.stm

University of Hull, Wetlands, Archaeology and Environments Research Centre
www.hull.ac.uk/wetlands/

University of Waterloo, Canada, Wetlands Research Centre
www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/research/wetlands/

University of Botswana, Department for Environmental Studies
www.ub.bw/departments/science/environmental_mission.html

3.4 Research

Can inland wetlands be used sustainably to profit Southern Africa's poor farmers?
www.iwmi.cgiar.org/home/inland_wetlands.htm

Jigawa Enhancement of Wetlands Livelihoods project (JEWEL)
www.livelihoods.org/info/linksevents_sub/linksevents_DFID_SL.html