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INTERNET NEWSBRIEF, January 8, 1999

Internet NewsBrief is a weekly service from the EPA Headquarters Library
that provides a sampling of new and/or useful Internet resources for EPA
staff and other environmental professionals.  The Internet NewsBrief is
also available on the Web at:
http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/hqirc/inb.htm


** EPA INFORMATION **

Index of Watershed Indicators
http://www.epa.gov/surf2/iwi/

The Index is a compilation of information on the "health" of aquatic
resources in the United States. The Index looks at a variety of indicators
that point to whether rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and coastal areas
are "well" or "ailing" and whether activities on the surrounding lands
that affect our waters are placing them at risk.

Enviromapper for Watersheds
http://www.epa.gov/surf2/iwimapper/

This interactive mapping tool allows users to look at many geographical
levels of environmental data. The mapper shows data at the national,
state, and county levels from the Index of Watershed Indicators as
layovers on the  maps and incorporates GIS functionality, such as
displaying multiple spatial layers, zooming, panning, identifying
features, and querying single points.


** ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION **

SOURCE Water and Sanitation News
http://www.wsscc.org/source/

SOURCE Water And Sanitation News Service is a joint endeavor of the Water
Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and IRC International
Water and Sanitation Centre.  SOURCE Weekly brings you a weekly update of
short news, while the bi-monthly SOURCE Bulletin gives more in-depth news
from the WSSCC and IRC.  Both are available on this site, or subscribe
here to receive new issues by e-mail.


** ACADEMIC INFORMATION **

[WATCH THIS ONE - ONE OF THOSE SITES THAT DISABLES THE "BACK" KEY]

Water Quality Web Resources
http://deal.unl.edu/agnic/

Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Excellence in Water
Quality Program, this web site is designed to provide high quality
web-based information to K-12 students, researchers, farmers, and others
about the importance of water resources and water safety issues. This
database was developed and is maintained by UNL Libraries as a part of the
Agricultural Networked Information Center (AgNIC) project.   Use the
search form to find items by categories and by age group, or use the
Category Maps to browse all the categories and their subcategories. This
is a good starting point if you do not know exactly what you are looking
for, or if you want to see all the categories in the database.  If you
cannot find the information you want, go to "Get Answers" to send a
question on any water-related topic.


** GOVERNMENT INFORMATION **

Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia
http://www.aqd.nps.gov/toxic/index.html

This online Encyclopedia summarizes environmental toxicology benchmarks
and general information related to fish, wildlife, invertebrates, and
other non-human living resources.   The data focuses on low, typical and
high environmental concentrations found throughout this country and the
world; concentrations that are toxic to various organisms; and standards,
criteria, and other benchmark values.  Brief sections at the beginning of
each entry give general overviews on the compound, its hazards, its more
dangerous toxic effects (carcinogenic, developmental, reproductive,
endocrine, genotoxic), and its environmental fate.  Also included is
important summary information (such as government grey literature and
personal communications) that is otherwise difficult to find via searches
of electronic or peer reviewed sources.


** INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION **

International Office for Water
http://www.oieau.fr/

The International Office for Water (IOW) is a non-profit organization
building a network of public and private partners involved in water
resources management and protection in France, Europe and the world.  The
site they have designed is available in French, English, Spanish, and
Portuguese.  To learn more about the organization and its upcoming
projects, conferences, and other activities, read IOW's online bulletin,
International News.   Find the full-text of speeches and presentations
delivered at such international conferences as the March 1998 Water and
Sustainable Development Conference or browse catalogs of upcoming training
workshops and conferences available in Europe.  The section "EAUDOC plus",
although mostly in French, offers bibliographic databases of articles and
research papers, sources for scientific, economic and legal data,
technical directories, and water information systems.



DISCLAIMER

The information provided in Internet NewsBrief was correct, to the best of
our knowledge, at the time of publication.  It is important to remember,
however, the dynamic nature of the Internet.  Resources that are free and
publicly available one day may require a fee or restrict access the next,
and the location of items may change as menus and homepages are
reorganized.

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