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• Adopt-A-Watershed
  Adopt-A-Watershed is a K-12 school-community learning experience using a local watershed as a living laboratory in which students engage in hands-on activities, making science applicable and relevant to their lives.
• Bridging the Gulf Science Literacy Grant
  This project seeks to improve science literacy across the state of Illinois, and includes student participation in the RiverWatch program.
• CyberLearning Collection: Salmon Preservation, A Case Study in the Resolution of Environmental Conflict
  Commercially available 2-volume CD-ROM library and investigation guides.
• Earth Awareness Educational Resources
  This is a resource for teachers and students to find useful information in the subject areas of: social studies, geography, science, K-12 outreach programs, and the environment. This resource is updated on a weekly basis.
• Educating Young People About Water
  Materials to help you develop a community-based, youth water education program that targets youth and links key community members in partnerships--all working toward common water education goals.
• Environmental Assoc. for Great Lakes Education (EAGLE)
  Environmental Assoc. for Great Lakes Education (EAGLE) is a non-profit organization which works on environmental issues throughout the Great Lakes Bioregion.
• Estuary-Net
  Estuary-Net was developed by the National Estuarine Research Reserve System in response to water quality issues arising in coastal areas. This project strives to develop collaborations among high schools, community volunteer water quality monitoring groups, local officials, state Coastal Zone Management (CZM) programs and National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRS) to solve non-point source pollution problems in estuaries and their watersheds.
• Give Water A Hand
  Join young people from around the country who are learning about water in their communities and what they -- and you! -- can do... a program of the University of Wisconsin-Environmental Resources Center.
• Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
  A worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment.
• Green Generation: Young Help for Planet Earth
  Set up in 1990 in order to encourage and foster links between environmentally committed children around the world, we are a small independent international non-profit making association. We are based on a peaceful olive tree covered hillside in S.E France. We believe strongly in the importance and quality of you, the YOUNGER GENERATION. You have a challenge that is huge: restoring sanity, beauty and Life to this incredible planet. Some of you are lucky, but millions of others need to know that it is possible to make a difference, and how many are trying, in amazing ways, all around the world.
• GREEN-Europe on the Internet
  Read about the newest developments with GREEN Europe on-line. Also GREEN projects within Europe can be presented on this home page.
• Hillsdale-Lenawee-Monroe Math/Science Center
  A watershed project involving several Michigan schools.
• I*EARN Aqua
  An electronic conference for the discussion of water quality issues, part of the I*EARN network.
• International Life Sciences Institute
  ILSI is a nonprofit, worldwide foundation established in 1978 to advance the understanding of scientific issues relating to nutrition, food safety, toxicology, and the environment.
• International Rivers Network
  Provides activists throughout the world with important, in-depth background and current information on river campaigns.
• Kentucky Water Watch
  Networks schools that monitor water quality in Kentucky.
• National 4-H Council Environmental Stewardship Updates
  The specific goals of the Environmental Stewardship program include: understanding ecological concepts, building an awareness of environmental issues and values, developing scientific investigatory and critical thinking skills, and learning skills needed for effective action. In general, these goals foster leadership skills that allow youth to work as full partners with others to develop creative, community-based solutions to difficult environmental challenges.
• National Environmental Directory Project
  The National Environmental Directory Project creates regional environmental directories which together form a comprehensive national environmental directory database. Each regional directory lists and describes nonprofit organizations, government agencies and other organizations concerned with environmental education and action.
• National Water-Quality Assessment NAWQA
  Program run by the U.S. Geological Survey is designed to describe the status and trends in the quality of the nation's ground- and surface-water resources and to provide a sound understanding of the natural and human factors that affect it.
• Networking BC Rivers
  Networking BC Rivers is a project to enable schools and communities throughout BC to learn more about the watersheds of four major rivers in British Columbia: the Fraser, Peace, Skeena, and Columbia. The project includes different methods and areas of study from scientific data collection to language arts. This web site supports the learning and collaborations done through both traditional and new media.
• Oz GREEN/GREEN Australia
  The Australian continent's Global Rivers Environmental Education Network affiliate.
• Project WET - Water Education for Teachers
  The goal of Project WET is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the development and dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and through the establishment of state and internationally sponsored Project WET programs.
• River Network
  River Network's mission is to help people organize to protect and restore rivers and watersheds.
• River Watch Network
  From the Rio Grande in Texas to the Danube in Hungary, River Watch Network harnesses the power of people and communities to monitor, restore, and protect the world's rivers.
• RiverResource
  A place where students of rivers can explore valuable river resources--a gateway to productive internet exploration.
• Rivers of Life: Mississippi Adventure
  A subscription-based program offered by Hamine University's Center for Global Environmental Education that engages students the world over in celebration, study, and stewardship of one of the world's greatest river systems.
• Running the Nile
  Online Kayak Expedition
• Salmon, Trout, Education Program (STEP)
  A cross-curricular science-based program that raises steelhead trout in the classroom.
• Streamwatch
  The community water quality monitoring program which operates across the Greater Melbourne area.
• The Green Thumb Project
  The Green Thumb project is an innovative, pollution prevention demonstration project which originally started as a Great Lakes binational project in Duluth, MN and Superior, WI, Toronto and Sarnia Ontario, and Milwaukee, WI. The project teaches homeowners, groundskeepers, schools and businesses alternatives to using pesticides and chemical based fertilizers for lawn care maintenance. The GT project continues today in Toronto and Duluth.
• The Rivers Project
  Includes a telecommunications network linking all of the more than 300 participating schools in a 35-state region and Canada.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Water Protection Home Page
• U.S. EPA "Surf Your Watershed"
  A service to help you locate, use, and share environmental information on your watershed or community.
• U.S. EPA Watershed Academy
  The EPA Office of Water initiated the Watershed Academy to provide training for watershed managers based on local, state, tribal, and federal experiences in implementing the watershed approach throughout the past decade.
• US EPA Region 4 "Water Pollution Solutions"
  Includes solutions for the public and for professionals.
• Volunteer Monitor
  The Volunteer Monitor newsletter facilitates the exchange of ideas, monitoring methods, and practical advice among volunteer environmental monitoring groups across the USA.
• Washington NatureMapping
  The NatureMapping Program's vision is to create a national network that links natural resource agencies, academia and land planners with local communities primarily through schools.
• Watch Over Washington
  Links volunteer monitors in the state of Washington.
• Water Quality Association Glossary of Terms
  The WQA Glossary of Terms provides on-line definitions for the language of water quality and monitoring, is provided by the Water Quality Association international trade association.
• Water Quality Curricula from the Cooperative Extension Service
  A comprehensive review of curricula for non-formal water education. Includes summaries of curricula and support materials, and an extensive bibliography.
• Water Resources Education Network (WREN)
  A project of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund. Its purpose is to make connections between people and resources for water education.
• Watershed Management Council
  The Watershed Management Council is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of watershed management.
• Waterwatch Australia
  The national community-based water quality monitoring program.
• Waterwatch Victoria
  Waterwatch brings together schools and community groups, Landcare Groups, and landowners, councils and water authorities to test the quality of their local stream or water source so that practical actions can be taken to maintain and improve water quality.
• West Virginia K-12 RuralNet
  Designed to increase the effectiveness of the Internet as a teaching tool, and focuses on watershed education.