There are a number of efforts at the local and national level to develop indicators of natural resource use including water. SWRR has collaborated with many of these efforts.

SWRR is one of four natural resource roundtables; each has or is developing a set of indicators.
Roundtable on Sustainable Forests http://www.sustainableforests.net/
Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable http://sustainablerangelands.cnr.colostate.edu/
Sustainable Minerals Roundtable http://www.unr.edu/mines/smr

Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment “State of the Nation’s Ecosystems” www.heinzctr.org/

National Environmental Status and Trend Indicators (NEST Indicators): The web site for this initiative of the White House and several other agencies to create a set of national environmental indicators can be found at: http://www.nest.fs.fed.us

Council on Environmental Quality

Environmental Quality Statistics: Aquatic Resources
http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/reports/statistics/aquatic.html

Department of Agriculture

Agriculture and Water Quality
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/pubs/wq.html

National Water and Climate Center
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/

Past and Future Freshwater Use in the United States
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr39.html

Department of Commerce

Hydrologic Information Center
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic

National Climatic Data Center
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

Office of Sustainable Fisheries, 2003 Report to Congress
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/reports.htm

Statistical Abstract of the United States, Section 6, Geography & Environment
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

Department of Health and Human Services

Surveillance for Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks, U.S., 1995-1996
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055820.htm

Department of the Interior

Concepts for National Assessment of Water Availability and Use
USGS Circular 1223
http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/circ1223

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data for Water Resources
http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/

Ground Water Atlas of the United States
http://capp.water.usgs.gov/gwa/gwa.html

National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/data/ncbp/fish.htm

National Water Conditions
http://water.usgs.gov/nwc/contents.html

National Water Quality Assessment Program
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/

National Wetlands Inventory
http://wetlands.fws.gov/

Science in Your Watershed
http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/

Stream Water Quality in the Conterminous United States
Status and Trends of Selected Indicators During the 1980s
http://water.usgs.gov/nwsum/sal/

USGS Water Data
http://water.usgs.gov/data.html

Water Watch - Maps and Graphs of Current Water Resources Conditions
http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/

Department of Transportation

Pollution Incidents in and Around U.S. Waters: A Spill/Release Compendium 1969-1998
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g%2Dm/nmc/response/stats/aa.htm

Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Indicators Initiative (EII)
State of the Environment
http://www.epa.gov/indicators/

Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Program (EMAP)
http://www.epa.gov/emap/

Great Lakes National Program Office Environmental Indicators
http://www.epa.gov/glindicators/index.html

Index of Watershed Indicators: National Maps
http://www.epa.gov/iwi/index.html
Note: The maps that support data are still available.

National Coastal Condition Report II, 2005
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/2005/index.html

National Water Quality Inventory: 2002 Report to Congress
http://www.epa.gov/305b/index.html

Office of Environmental Information
http://www.epa.gov/oei/

Smart Growth and Water Resource Protection http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/smartgrowth/index.htm

Storage and Retrieval of Water Quality Information
http://www.epa.gov/storet/

Surf Your Watershed
http://www.epa.gov/surf/

Watershed Assessment, Tracking, & Environmental Results
http://www.epa.gov/waters/

Watershed Information Network
http://www.epa.gov/win/

European Environment Agency
http://themes.eea.eu.int/indicators/all_indicators_box

Government Accountability Office

GAO-05-376 raises questions about the future availability of environmental data.
“Environmental Information: Status of Federal Data Programs that Support Ecological Indicators”
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05376.pdf

H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
The State of the Nation's Ecosystems
http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/index.htm

Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
http://www.sdi.gov/

Natural Resources Defense Council

Testing the Waters - 2001: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/titinx.asp

State of Florida

Testing the Waters - 2001: A Guide to Water Quality Environmental Indicator Technical Assistance Series
http://www.pepps.fsu.edu/segip/catalog/

State of Maryland

Testing the Waters - 2001: A Guide to Water Quality Watershed Indicators
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/watersheds/surf/indic/md/md_indic.html

World Resources Institute

Testing the Waters - 2001: A Guide to Water Quality Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems http://water.wri.org/

Yale/Columbia Universities

Testing the Waters - 2001: A Guide to Water Quality Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index
http://www.yale.edu/epi/

European Environment Agency
http://themes.eea.eu.int/indicators/all_indicators_box

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