Water Governance in Europe & CIS

Water Supply and Sanitation Resources

Online Tools and Knowledge Maps

• WaterWiki - The Regional Knowledge Map and Online Collaboration Tool
• For water practitioners in Europe & CIS with Reports, Country Profiles and Projects, Regional (Transboundary) Water-Projects, Who-is-who (the Water-Community), Links to Networks and Tools, and much more... 

• UNESCO Water PortalThe site provides links to the current UNESCO and UNESCO-led programmes on freshwater and will serve as an interactive point for sharing, browsing and searching websites of water-related organizations, government bodies and NGOs, including a range of categories such as water links, water events, learning modules and other online resources.

• UN-Water
  UN-Water is the United Nation's inter-agency mechanism that promotes coherence in, and coordination of, UN entities on water-related issues.

Online glossary of terms on water:

• EPAEDIA (by the European Environment Agency) - also here
• Joint Monitoring Programme: Definitions for access to water and sanitation
• FAO’s Online Land and Water Glossary of Terms
• The European Union’s Water Framework Directive Glossary of Terms
• IWMI (International Water Management Institute): glossary of terms

Other online tools:

• WRI (watersheds of the world interactive guide): an interactive guide to all major watersheds of the world
• Watersheds of the World (by IUCN): another good guide to watersheds of the world
• Environmental treaties and Resource Indicators (ETRI)

Major reports and publications

• The 2006 Human Development Report: Beyond Scarcity - Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis (download the HDR 2006 in pdf-format)
• Regional HDR 2005 for Central Asia ("Bringing down barriers: Regional cooperation for human development and human security") / see also Kazakhstan HDR 2004

Reports and Documents from other organizations

• World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2006
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Reports: lists all the synthesis and main reports of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Environmental Performance Reviews: Water in the OECD countries
• Water: Understanding the issues: Links to various OECD documents and reports
• Challenges to International Waters: Regional Assessments
• Millennium Taskforce Reports: Find reports on the taskforce on water and sanitation 

Organizations, Initiatives and Partnerships

• Cap-NET: On Cap-Net's site you will find a whole library of materials!
• IW:LEARN: The "knowledge management project" of Global Environment Facility - International Waters: Visit the library... (GEF-IW)
• UNDP's Water Governance Facility (WGF) at the Stockholm International Waters Institute (SIWI): Co-organizes i.a. the yearly "Stockholm World Water Week", and also has a special section for downloading reports
• Gender and Water Alliance (GWA): Has links to the resource guide and other sources of information
• European Environment Agency: Direct links to Information about water | International water databases report
• ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas - The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of the 16 centres strategically located all over the world and supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). With its main research station and offices based in Aleppo, Syria, ICARDA works through a network of partnerships with national, regional and international institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations and ministries in the developing world; and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries.
• Taking account of the poor in water sector regulation (by UNDP & World Bank)
• The Global Water Partnership (GWP) library: Includes technical papers, newsletters and policy papers
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ETRI): A clearinghouse of information on major environmental treaties, also very good resource management profiles for all countries that have ratified major environmental agreements or treaties.
• GEMS water monitoring (UNEP): Main global water quality monitoring programme
• UNEP-GRIDA: database for knowledge sharing on European environmental issues for capacity building. Main countries are those of Central and Eastern Europe
• International Water Association (IWA): Association of water professionals, list of conferences and publications on various water topics
• International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC): good website that lists information on various water and sanitation topics, upcoming conferences, vacancies and publications. Has a good listserv called "Source"
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO): Distribution of the world’s water resources
• International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED): Resources on water, sanitation and human settlements, mainly publications and reports
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI): Offers information about the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture and on the water needs of developing countries.

Conventions and Frameworks

• UNECE Water Convention 
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
• Convention on Biological Diversity (inland waters): this website includes information on inland waters, which is the main water management theme of the convention.
• European Water Framework Directive (WFD) (-> direct link): Link to statistics, resources, information on legislation and more.