Center for Watershed Protection
The Center for Watershed Protection provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations with the technical tools for protecting streams, lakes, and rivers. Learn about the Center`s work in watershed planning and restoration, stormwater management, education and outreach, better site design, and research. Access technical tools and diverse publications.

Conservation Technology Information Center: Know Your Watershed
A site with details on the who, what, where, how, and when of watersheds and watershed management. Links galore!

EPA`s Watershed Site
This website explains the watershed concept and approach to water resources management. You can access news, EPA publications and videos, state specific water quality data, laws, and an extensive database of citizen action groups and initiatives like EPA`s "Adopt Your Watershed."

Interactive Watersheds
Interactive Watersheds is a showcase of community-based watershed restoration partnerships, to date highlighting the work of five organizations. Using innovative 360-degree panoramic photography, audio-video sequences, and explanatory text, this website shares ongoing watershed restoration activities with users in an engaging and interactive way.

U.S Geological Survey: Science in Your Watershed
This website contains a wealth of basic to advanced information on watersheds and specific details on watersheds across the U.S. Learn about active watershed projects near you and access watershed mapping tools, publications, reports, and case studies.

Watershed Atlas of the Monogahela and Allegheny Rivers
Learn basic and more advanced watershed concepts in an interactive and fun way, including an in-depth exploration of two example watersheds in Pennsylvania.

Watershed Management Council
This online reference attempts to advance the art and science of watershed management through public awareness provided by relevant online reports and documents.

Watersheds of the World
This powerful online CD provides maps of land cover, population density, and biodiversity for 154 water basins and sub-basins around the world. It lists indicators and variables for each of these basins and, where appropriate, provides links and references to relevant information. It also provides 20 global maps portraying regional/national water resources issues.

We've tried to make it easier for you to learn about some of the issues that affect you and your "blue backyard" — our world's ocean. These categories organize lists for some of the best sites on the Web that we know about.

If you have suggestions for websites for us to include, please let us know! Thank you!