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ORGANISATIONS  

Americas ...

American Rivers - Rivers Connect Us
AMERICAN RIVERS protects wild rivers, restores damaged rivers and conserves clean water for people and nature. We combine national advocacy with field work in key river basins to deliver the greatest impact. We’re practical problem solvers with positions informed by science. With our expertise and outreach, we work to protect and restore our nation’s rivers.
https://www.americanrivers.org/

Europe ...

Association of Drainage Authorities
UK association, formed in 1937 to watch over and protect the interests of Drainage Authorities and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote discussions upon common problems and visits to places of interest.
http://www.ada.org.uk

Balkan Rivers Protection
A coalition of NGOs who have launched the campaign “Save the Blue Heart of Europe” in order to raise awareness about the imminent dam craze on the Balkan peninsula and to spare the most valuable rivers and river stretches from destruction. There are major threats to endangered species in the Balkans due to over-abstraction and mismanagement of flow regimes.
http://www.balkanrivers.net/

British Waterways
British Waterways is the organisation responsible for maintaining 2,000 miles (3,220km) of this inland waterway network today so that people can use it for a wide range of leisure activities
http://britishwaterways.co.uk

Cornwall Rivers Project
Targeting 10 key river catchments across the county, this initiative has been designed to bring significant benefits to both the environment and the economic viability of local rural communities in Cornwall.
http://www.cornwallriversproject.org.uk/

DEFRA
UK's Department for Food and Rural Affairs, one of the principal bodies for flood defence funding in the UK. Important annual conference for Flood and Coastal Management.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environ/fcd

Environment Agency
Environment Agency (UK) - substantial site for all UK rivers, waste management and environmental protection
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk

European Centre for River Restoration
ECRR supports the development of river restoration as an integral part of sustainable water management throughout Europe, ensuring that projects will be more cost-effective, more likely to succeed, and will encompass multifunctional objectives. It also encourages the application of river restoration technology to routine management activities in order to promote sustainable and wise economics of rivers.
http://www.ecrr.org/

European Rivers Network
ERN links groups, organisations and persons working for the protection of rivers and to improve communication between them
http://www.rivernet.org

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
The tasks of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) are mandated by the "Convention on Cooperation for the Protection and Sustainable Use of the Danube River" (Danube River Protection Convention, DRPC). From this Convention also derive the responsibilities of the ICPDR directed to ensure its implementation and to enhance the cooperation of the Contracting Parties fulfilling their respective obligations.
http://www.icpdr.org

NetCoast
Dutch based Guide to Integrated Coastal zone management
http://www.netcoast.nl/projects1/twinning.htm

RESTORE Partnership for European Rivers
River restoration is action that restores the natural state and functioning of a river system in support of biodiversity, recreation, flood safety and landscape development. RESTORE is a partnership for sharing knowledge and promoting best practice on river restoration in Europe. We encourage the restoration of European rivers towards a more natural state for increased ecological quality, flood risk reduction, and social and economic benefits.
http://www.restorerivers.eu/

River Flood Conveyance Programme
Joint R&D project between EA, DEFRA and HR Wallingford, producing information about the capacity of river channels and their associated floodplains. Mainly for professionals.
http://www.river-conveyance.net

River Restoration Cenetre
National advice and information centre for river restoration and sustainable management techniques. Excellent on-line manuals for methods
http://www.therrc.co.uk

RiverWatch Europe
RiverWatch is a society for the protection of rivers. Our ambition is to conserve the last unimpaired rivers as well as their flooding areas. RiverWatch engages globally against projects that destroy rivers, particularly dam projects. We are a campaigning organisation; that is, we act in opposition to certain projects and promote public awareness.
http://riverwatch.eu/en/about-us

The Westcountry Rivers Trust
The Westcountry Rivers Trust is an environmental charity established in 1995 to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of the rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments in the Westcountry and to advance the education of the public in the management of water.
http://www.wrt.org.uk/

UK Rivers Network
Environmental organization designed to campaign on river issues throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and North Ireland. Linked to European Rivers Network.
http://www.ukrivers.net

Global ...

International Rivers
Since 1985, International Rivers has been at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them. We work with an international network of dam-affected people, grassroots organizations, environmentalists, human rights advocates and others who are committed to stopping destructive river projects and promoting better options. We seek a world where healthy rivers and the rights of local communities are valued and protected. We envision a world where water and energy needs are met without degrading nature or increasing poverty, and where people have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives.
http://www.internationalrivers.org/

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database
Includes an international river basin register.  To aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu

UNESCO Water Portal
United Nations site intended to enhance access to information related to freshwater available on the World Wide Web
http://www.unesco.org/water

World Commission on Dams
Independent multi-stakeholder with UN support investigating the effect of dams
http://www.dams.org


SOFTWARE LINKS  

Americas ...

Haestad Methods
US based, supply excellent user-friendly and well supported software, including several forums for water engineers
http://www.haestad.com

HEC-RAS - River Analysis System, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
As the first of HEC’s “Next Generation” (NexGen) software packages, HEC-RAS allows you to perform one-dimensional steady and unsteady flow calculations. Sediment Transport computations and Water Quality analysis will be added in future versions.
http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/

Hydrologic Engineering Center
Home page of the US Army Corps of Engineers - excellent site for river hydraulic modellers and river basin planners.
http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/default.html

Rivix LLC
Rivix, LLC is a software development company founded in 1998. The flagship product is RiverTools, a user-friendly, point-and-click GIS environment for digital terrain analysis as it relates to surface hydrology.
http://www.rivix.com

Europe ...

Danish Hydraulics Institute
World renowned institute and consultancy, suppliers of MIKE-11 river modelling software
http://www.dhi.dk

HYDRAS PRO - Monitoring software for environmental sensors from OTT
Hydras 3 offers a practice-oriented, easy-to-operate programme for the collection, processing, interpretation and transmission of data from sensors and measurement stations.
http://www.ott.com/web/ott_de.nsf/id/pa_hydras3_pro_e.html

HYDROPRO - Telemetry and instrumentation software from AP KERN
Using HydroPro™, measuring data can be automatically or manually queried from measuring stations via telephone, read from memory banks, digitalised directly from limnigraphic forms into the database or imported from files.
http://www.apkern.ch/en/produkte/hydropro.php

Wallingford Software Ltd.
Part of UK's HR Wallingford group, supplying quality river and drainage engineering software, including ISIS and INFOWORKS
http://www.wallingfordsoftware.co.uk


ACADEMIC LINKS  

Europe ...

British Hydrological Society
Professional organisation for hydrologists, climatologists and modellers.
http://www.hydrology.org.uk

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
UK based R&D organisation, part of NERC, promoting research, survey and monitoring of terrestrial and freshwater environments
http;//www.ceh.ac.uk

EPSRC supported research into afflux at river structures
Afflux is an increase in water level that can occur upstream of a structure at high flows. More formally, afflux can be defined as the maximum difference in water level, for a specific flow, if the structure were to be removed. It is caused by energy losses at high flows through bridges and culverts, and it is made worse by blockage. Afflux can be physically significant in terms of flood levels and leads to a potential for increased losses due to blockage. It therefore needs to be represented in river modelling tools and understood by river engineers and other professionals.
http://www.jbaconsulting.co.uk/researchdevelopment/afflux

International Association for Danube Research
(IAD) was founded in 1956 with the goal of promoting and coordinating activities in the fields of limnology, water management, and water protection in the Danube River basin. With a length of over 2,800 km, the Danube is -after the Volga- the second longest river in Europe.
http;//www.iad-sil.com

River Conveyance Estimation System
To manage its flood defences, the Environment Agency and other authorities responsible for flood management require accurate information about the capacity of river channels and their associated floodplains. In response to the Environment Agency's vision for reducing uncertainties in the estimation of flood levels, a team of experts, led by HR Wallingford is developing a new Conveyance Estimation System. The new system is to be adopted in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
http://www.river-conveyance.net

River Restoration Centre
A UK based national information and advisory centre on all aspects of river restoration and enhancement, and sustainable river management. Based at Silsoe College, Bedfordshire.
http://www.therrc.co.uk

The National River Flow Archive
UK national archive hosted by CEH Wallingford, containing 40,000 station years of daily & monthly data
http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/nrfa/index.htm

UK National River Flow Archive
The NRFA collates, quality controls, and archives hydrometric data from gauging station networks across the UK including the extensive networks operated by the Environment Agency (England and Wales), the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland). River flow data for ~400 gauging stations can be downloaded from this website. Data for a further ~1000 gauging stations can be requested via the manual retrieval service. The data are available free-of-charge for academic research or educational uses.
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/

UK Water Resources Portal
The UK Water Resources Portal is a tool to monitor the UK hydrological situation in (near) real-time, showcasing the use of live river flow data from the Environment Agency. The UK Water Resources Portal has been developed as a demonstrator to showcase the use of multiple variables: rainfall, river flow, groundwater and soil moisture from COSMOS-UK, in the raw data format as well as standardised indices, to view various plotting styles and view data for multiple sites.
https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/water-resources/index.html

Water and Environmental Management Research Centre
Addresses water management issues both in the UK and across the world from a systems point of view, part of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol
http://www.cen.bris.ac.uk/civil/research/wemrc/introduct.htm

Global ...

International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
Promotes the advancement and exchange of knowledge through working groups, specialty symposia, congresses, and publications on water resources, river and coastal hydraulics, risk analysis, energy, environment
http://www.iahr.org

International Association of Hydrological Sciences
Extensive international site relating to hydrology, vast array of useful links to other govt. and national bodies in hydrology
http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs

USA ...

Methodology for Cowan Estimation of channel roughness
A specialist link on this old but useful method.
http://www.utdallas.edu/~brikowi/Teaching/Applied_Modeling/SurfaceWater/LectureNotes/Manning_Roughness/node8.html

Online Calculator for Hydraulics and Hydrology
Numerous online tools for rapid calculation of hydro-parameters. Very useful for cross checking models etc. Thanks to San Diego State University.
http://onlinecalc.sdsu.edu/

Africa Middle East ...

Nile Basin Capacity Building Network
The main target of establishing this network is to create an environment in which professionals from the water sector sharing the Nile River Basin would have the possibility to exchange their ideas, their best practices and lessons learned.
http://www.nbcbn.com


PRODUCT SUPPLIERS  

Americas ...

Fondriest Environmental Inc.
US based supplier of wide range of environmental monitoring products
http://www.fondriest.com

Europe ...

Brackett Green Ltd.
Advanced water screening technology, for debris removal for all sizes and types of water intakes via trash screens and trash rakes.
http://www.brackettgreen.co.uk

Churchill Telemetry Controls
Telemetry systems that offer a flexible approach to transferring signals between remote sites.
http://www.churchill-controls.co.uk

Controlstar Systems
Alarms, control, trend, environmental and condition monitoring, STV, GSM , radio
http://www.controlstar.com

Dynamic Logic
Wide range of communications options, ranging from PSTN, GSM, GPRS and infra-red.
http://www.dynamiclogic.co.uk

FlowTracker Handheld Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV)
Suppliers of portable rugged current meters.
http://www.sontek.com

Hidrostal Ltd.
Mobile pumping solutions, including flood relief, over pumping, emergencies
http://www.hidrostal.co.uk

HL Plastics Ltd.
Recycycled PVC sheet piling products; long-term environmentally sound bank retention system for rivers, drainage, reservoir.
http://www.hlplasticsltd.co.uk

Hydrokit Environmental Data Acquisition Systems
Hydrokit is an independent instrument supply organisation supplying equipment for environmental monitoring of water and related weather processes in the field. The technology on offer ranges from standard traditional manually operated devices to automated electronic systems.
http://www.hydrokit.co.uk

Javelin Water Engineering
Heavy duty drainage pumps and accessories
http://www.javelinwater.co.uk

Luxan UK Ltd.
Aquatic weed control in lakes and slow running water.
http://www.luxan.co.uk

MMG Civil Engineering Systems Ltd.
MMG provides earth reinforcement, erosion control and geo-synthetic services, SUDS etc.
http://www.mmgces.co.uk

OTT Hydrometry
German based firm supplying top quality environmental recorders, river level, groundwater sensors
http://www.ott-hydrometry.com

Reedman Services
Specialist aquatic weed control equipment and services
http://www.reedmanservices.co.uk

Reid Lifting Equipment - Lightweight Solutions
Reid Limited is dedicated to creating innovative design via manufacture of lightweight and portable lifting equipment providing fit for purpose lifting solutions under safe working practice, to numerous industrial sectors.
http://www.reidlifting.com

Rittmeyer
Swiss based firm operating in Europe, delivering process control and environmental instrumentation
http://www.rittmeyer.com

Simon-Hartley Fluid Control
World leading suppliers of fluid control mechansisms, penstocks, flap valves, stop logs including Plastigate TM etc.
http://www.simonhartley.com

Wells Spiral Tubes Ltd.
Culverts and water control products, including flap & slide gates, valves, pivoted weirs, float units etc.
http://www.wells-spiral.co.uk

Wijma UK Ltd.
Specialist suppliers of marine timbers and structures, including piling, lock gates, bank protection
sales@wijma.demon.co.uk

Willowbank Erosion and Conservation Services
UK based firm providing environmentally friendly materials for river and erosion control
http://www.hurdle.co.uk/wecs

YSI Hydrodata Ltd
Suppliers of a wide range of water quality and water flow sensors and dataloggers inc. Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity, Temp., pH, Turbidity.
http://www.ysi.com

ELE International
Multi-parameter sensors and monitors, water flow meters, borehole measurement, sediment sampling
http://www.ele.com


PUBLICATIONS  

Europe ...

Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management
Journal and magazine and many publications on water issues
http://www.ciwem.org.uk/publications/index.asp

Construction Industry Research and Information Association
UK based research association concerned with performance improvement in construction and the environment. Industry standards in urban flood control, sustainable urban drainage systems etc.
http://www.ciria.org.uk/publications/bookshopentrance.htm

Elsevier
Main Elsevier page, world-leading publisher of scientific and technical information
http://www.elsevier.com

Excellent for research journals abstract databases and reference works from Elsevier
http://www.sciencedirect.com

Hydrological Processes
Hydrological Processes is an international journal devoted to the publication of original scientific and technical papers in hydrology. The objective of these communications is to improve our understanding of hydrological processes. The scope of the journal encompasses disciplines focussing on the physical, biogeochemical, mathematical and methodological aspects of hydrological processes together with research on instrumentation and techniques.
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hp

Inderscience
Good for international journals on energy, environment and sustainable development
http://www.inderscience.com

Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) Virtual Library
Largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world
http://www.iceknowledge.com

International Water Association
Numerous water titles and journals, especially for water quality issues; order online
http://www.iwapublishing.com

Spon Press
Civil engineering standard texts and reference manuals - construction prices.
http://www.sponpress.com

Stream Hydrology - An Introduction for Ecologists
N. Gordon, T. McMahon, C. Gippel. 2nd Edition, April 2004. ISBN 0-470-84357-8 Definitive resource on the nature and functioning of rivers. Ideal for students and professionals.
http://www.wileyeurope.com

Thomas Telford Online
Main site for Institution of Civil Engineers, good for engineering and construction
http://www.t-telford.co.uk

UK Environment Agency R&D Dissemination Centre
R&D document source, hosted by WRC, mainly for professionals
http://www.eareports.com

Water Research Centre, UK
UK and world leader in urban drainage, sewage treatment technologies and standards
http://www.webookshop.com

Wiley Publishers
Wide range of technical books and journals. Order on-line.
http://www.wileyeurope.com


CONFERENCES  

Europe ...

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA hosts an annual conference for flood and coastal management, many useful technical papers
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environ/fcd/default.htm

UK River Restoration Annual Network Conference 2004
20-21 April 2004, University of Durham. Theme 'The need for a catchment scale approach to river restoration'.
http://www.therrc.co.uk/news_events.php

Global ...

International Rivers Symposium
4-7 September 2006, Brisbane, Australia. 9th International Symposium, theme "Managing Rivers with Climate Change & Expanding Populations"
http://www.riversymposium.com

Stockholm International Water Institute
The Stockholm International Water is an umbrella organisation for global water related scientific activities. Annual prestigious conference
http://www.siwi.org/menu/menu.html


GUEST FEATURE  

Water Experts Network
Water Experts Network is a virtual network of freelance water experts from all over the world.
http://water-experts-network.org


OTHER USEFUL LINKS  

Americas ...

LMNO Engineering
Useful on-line hydraulics calculation site, with large range of hydraulic formulae that can be used interactively.
http://www.lmnoeng.com

Europe ...

UK Environment Agency HiFlows-UK Database
The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) is the basis for most current flood estimation in the United Kingdom. This website provides updated flood peak data for use with the methods in the FEH. Specifically, this HiFlows-UK website provides: updated flood peak data at around 1000 river flow gauging stations in the UK; additional information about the gauging stations to allow hydrologists to make informed judgements about freqquency. These webpages assume some knowledge of flood hydrology and the Flood Estimation Handbook.
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/hiflowsuk/