"USGS Surface-Water Daily Data for the Nation" Site type = Ground Water Hydrologic region -03 [Site Selection Results -- 1123 sites found ] Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Retrieved on 2006-08-18 03:17:35 EDT (See Comments for full link)

Retrieved on 2006-08-18 02:07:41 EDT "These pages provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Online access to this data is organized around the categories listed to the left. "..."...." Real-Time Data: Current-conditions data transmitted from selected surface-water, ground-water, and water-quality sites"..." "Surface Water: Water flow and levels in streams, lakes, and springs." .." Ground Water: Water levels in wells."..."Water Quality: Chemical and physical data for streams, lakes, springs, and wells."

"Cholera may return to London, the mass migration of Africans could cause civil unrest in Europe and China's economy could crash by 2015 as the supply of fresh water becomes critical to the global economy. That was the bleak assessment yesterday by forecasters from some of the world's leading corporate users of fresh water, 200 of the largest food, oil, water and chemical companies."...."The study of future water availability, which the corporations have taken three years to compile, suggests water conflicts are likely to become common in many countries, according to the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, which brought the industrial groups together."....""Globally, water usage has increased by six times in the past 100 years and will double again by 2050, driven mainly by irrigation and demands of agriculture. Some countries have already run out of water to produce their own food."..."..."He expected the price of water to increase everywhere to meet an expected 50% increase in the amount of food the world will need in the next 20 years."..."..."Researchers say it is possible to reduce water scarcity, feed people and address poverty, but the key trade-off is with the environment."..."In the United States, Mr Pittock said, large areas are already using substantially more water than can be naturally replenished. "This situation will only be exacerbated as climate change is predicted to bring lower rainfall, increased evaporation and changed patterns of snow melting."..."Three visions of the future 1. Misery and shortages in the megacities and drought in Africa ...2.2. China leads recycling rush as world moves to a new hydro economy By 2010, the water shortage in many developing countries is recognised as one of the most serious political and social issues of the time. Lack of water is stopping development and in many countries the rural poor suffer as their water and other needs take second place to those of swelling cities and industry. Local government worldwide is increasingly distrusted over water allocation, and historical divides between rich and poor are exacerbated by water shortages. However, by 2025 a worldwide hydro economy is developing, led by China. Vast new investments are made in recycling water and the cost of desalination is greatly reduced. Innovative small-scale water treatment processes become the norm 3. Water is the means of social control as floods and disease devastate world ..."

"summer installment of the ORNL DAAC Newsletter".."number of new data sets,"...."“Global Fire Emissions Database,...gridded monthly fire emissions of carbon, CO2, CO,and CH4 for 1997-2004;this data set replaces the Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 1(GFEDv1)"..." Climate data set entitled “Global Maps of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition, 1860, 1993, and 2050” "..""Land Validation data set entitled “Leaf Area Index Maps at 30-m Resolution, VALERI Site, Larose, Canada," which provides local LAI maps for the Larose (Ontario) site in Canada."..""In addition, the ORNL DAAC has released three data sets from the SAFARI 2000 Project, an international science initiative to study the linkages between land and atmosphere..."..."The ORNL DAAC is pleased to announce the distribution of the first of many data sets from the Large-Scale Biosphere - Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) Project. LBA is an international research initiative conducted from 1995-2005 and led by Brazil. The LBA Project encompasses several scientific disciplines, or components. The LBA-ECO component focuses on the question: “How do tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon storage, nutrient dynamics, trace gas fluxes, and the prospect for sustainable land use in Amazonia?”".."The two LBA-ECO data sets currently offered are “LBA-ECO CD-07 GOES-8 L1 Radiance Data for Amazonia: 1998-2001” and “LBA-ECO CD-07 GOES-8 L3 Gridded Surface Radiation and Rain Rate for Amazonia: 1999.” The radiance data set contains GOES-8 imager data collected over the LBA-ECO study region as part of an effort to characterize the incoming radiation and precipitation rates at regional scales.".."Please check our LBA project web page (http://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/lba.html) periodically for new data. Also, please see the LBA data and publication policy (http://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/lba_data_policy.html)."..."We plan to include in this semiannual newsletter announcements of new data sets and services being offered to the public as well as news of other happenings and events. We welcome feedback. Send comments and suggestions to ornldaac@ornl.gov. We also ask that you forward this message to colleagues who might be interested in news from the ORNL DAAC. "...." "BIGFOOT Data The ORNL DAAC has recently released additional data files for four data sets from the BigFoot Project. These data sets include gridded surfaces of land cover, leaf area index (LAI), Net Primary Production (NPP), and Gross Primary Production (GPP) data from 2000 through 2004 for selected EOS Land Validation Sites."..."Please visit the ORNL DAAC’s BigFoot Project page http://daac.ornl.gov/BIGFOOT_VAL/bigfoot.html for more information or to access data sets.".."