• Got useful skills? Sign up for disaster relief Southeast Emergency Response Network
  
• New water science web site from the U.S. National Academies
  
• Our informative Geomicrobiology resource and Total Wellfield Management pages.
  
• The Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the upper Sandusky River watershed. Press release and link.
  
• Oasis Design — Ecological systems design. Water, wastewater, and grey water systems, edible landscaping, transport bicycles, and more. Books, articles, and consulting. Also - fecal coliform measurements — What they really mean about water quality.
• Our courses in well performance maintenance and rehabilitation and ground water and wells for managers.
  
• Clearing and disinfecting flooded wells: The USEPA has good advice. Don't just read the alarmist blue boxes. Read the white. The likelihood of long-term residual contamination mentioned is low, but possible with extensive aquifer-surface contact. In addition - chlorine treating requires getting chlorine to the bottom of the well. See this article based on our research.
  
• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have a site on Disaster Epidemiology.
• Why well construction, placement, environmental and water analysis, and water tretament and responsible management all matter: The Walkerton, Ontario, E. coli well water contamination incident (2000). Two sources: 

• Are you comfortable with the idea that billions of human beings do not have access to safe water and sanitation? If not: Here are some places where you can help. WHO report on water and sanitation needs worldwide.
  
• Arsenic: Both an issue in U.S. and other regulatory development and the lives of many people using wells:
• USEPA
• The informative British Geological Survey site on arsenic contamination of ground water
• The West Bengal and Bangladesh Arsenic Crisis Information Centre maintains a site with about any link you would need for arsenic as a toxic contaminant in drinking water, and the tragic occurrence of this compound in the drinking water of some of the poorest of the poor on earth.
• Proposed Groundwater Rule (U.S. EPA): Full text of proposed rule. It has been proposed for a long time, no recent change. Also our GWR page provides background in the rule's development.
• Interpreting water quality analyses: Find a very useful .pdf on this topic from Rutgers Cooperative Extension
• Pump World -- Numerous bits of information, calculations etc for pumps
  

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• Lifewater International -- "Christians helping the rural poor obtain safe water"
• Living Water International -- providing training in drilling and other technical support
• World Wide Water -- Has a heavy-lift ship to move cargoes such as drilling rigs around the world
• Water for People -- AWWA's international water development arm
• Water Aid -- U.K. international organization working with local country partners
• Water, Engineering and Development Centre, Loughborough University - Resources for water and sanitation
• IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre - Research and training, on low-cost water supply and sanitation
• Southwest Indian Foundation -- Uses donations & craft profits to improve Native American life
• Interwater -- Links to a variety of development organizations
• Global Water Partnership Forum An internet web site sponsored by the World Bank and UNDP and devoted to networking for solutions to sustainable water development
• The Water Page -- (Incorporates former African Water Page) A variety of resources on the topic
• Rural development resources -- W.K. Kellogg rural development materials
• Agriculture, medical and water improvement in central Tanzania -- Work we are involved in
• St. Paul Partners:  Working to improve water in the Iringa region of Tanzania and expanding their reach
  
• Care to Help Project: Americans helping minority hill tribes in Vietnam (old friends, remember?) with water
• NGWA maintains a list of international organization contacts.

• National Institutes of Science and Technology (NIST)
• American Society for Testing and Materials -- ASTM -- consensus standards organization
• NSF International Standards and certifications in materials and chemicals
  

See The Well M&R Gateway -- our Well M&R (biofouling etc.) information resource area

• Operator-10 -- O& M software from AllMax Software, in Ohio's high tech Upper Scioto Valley.
• Technical Guide to Public Water System Operations and Maintenance, State of Georgia
• Sustainable water well initiative of Canada's Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
  
• BART biofouling detection tests Droycon Bioconcepts, Regina, Saskatchwan
• GEO Consultants LLC Providing BCHT^tm well rehabilitation and well inspection services
  
• NACE International -- The corrosion society (publications, discussion groups on corrosion)
• Corrosion Doctors -- A good source of basic information on corrosion causes, consequences  and analysis.
• Cranfield Institute - Silsoe College A UK center of well M&R knowledge
• Cost effectiveness of maintenance monitoring
• Biofilm research center, Univ. of Montana -- Significant biofouling-related work
• Aquastream Inc.: Domestic US manufacturer of suction flow control devices.
• Sonar Jet -- Water Well Redevelopers Inc.
• Hydrofracturing process -- from Kyle Equipment Co.
• AWWA Research Foundation Source of "Evaluation and Restoration of Water Supply Wells" and "Methods for Monitoring Fe and Mn Biofouling in Water Supply Wells" -- some of our work. Ask them for copies if out of print.
• CRC Press Lewis Publishers In case you somehow missed it -- publisher of Stu Smith's book on environmental well M&R and also several other related books worth having. Search or browse.

• A substantial list of drilling and ground water firms and organizations by Serge Fortin.
• DRILSHOP -- A growing drilling information area. Don't let the weird characters scare you off.
• National Ground Water Assn. Ground water and wells, information and publications
• CRC Press Lewis Publishers Source of Drilling: The Manual of Methods, Applications and Management, The world's best general reference on the full range of drilling practices. Search by title.
• National Driller Online -- Formerly National Drillers Buyers Guide. Articles and ads
• World Wide Drilling Resource - Doc Faison and Co. reenter drilling publishing with this paper.
• Resources Drilling Programme Sir Sandford Fleming College -- Resident drilling training in Ontario
• Red Deer College -- Home of the Alberta Water Well Apprenticeship programme
• Southwest Mississippi Community College - well drilling technology program (you have to hunt for the info here)
• DICAT course in drilling -- A major distance-learning course you can take where you are 
• Some resident water well or drilling programs 
• Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee 
• Australian Drilling Industry Association
  
• Morrison Mud Co. -  products and services for tunnelling,  drilling, and related tasks (UK) 
• Baroid Industrial Drilling Products 
• American Society for Testing and Materials -- Publish drilling-related standards

• Training and Seminar Locators -- searchable training resource
• DICAT course in drilling -- A major distance-learning course you can take where you are
• Operator Training Committee of Ohio -- water/wastewater 
• Ohio EPA's list of approved courses - Listed by provider alphabetically. Ours (p. 41 or so) can be brought to your location.
  
• Nielsen Environmental Field School
• E3 - Environmental Education Enterprises -- Environmental seminars at a location near you
• Regional University Programs in Hydrogeology
• NGWA Ground Water Education Resources
• Our courses in well performance maintenance and rehabilitation and ground water and wells for managers.