Web sites having information on aquatic resources of India.
http://www.Irn.org
This is the site of International Rivers Network (IRN). IRN supports local communities engaged in protecting their rivers and watershed. It works to halt destructive developmental projects on rivers and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting the need for water, energy and flood management. The site gives information about environmental impact of large dams. The site also contains list of all the existing, ongoing and proposed hydroelectric projects of India.
http://www.Irn.org/basics/db050.shtml
The site contains more than 300 bibliographic collections on dams.
http://www.Irn.org/basics/dbweb.shtml
Links to more than 50 other water resources related web sites are available.
http://www.Irn.org/basics/dbjournal.shtml
Details of more than 70 relevant journals, newsletters and newspaper tiles on rivers are available.
http://www.Irn.org/programs/india
The environmental and anthropogenic impact of Sardar Sarovar project, Maheshwar dam and other dams under construction on Narmada river are discussed at the site.
http://www.search.eb.com
At this site one can find Encyclopędia Britannica Online. The Britannica Encyclopaedia contains lot of information on the rivers of India, which includes, their origin points, end point, approximate length etc. The information on big rivers like Ganga and Bramhputra is enormous and includes physiography, climate and hydrology, plant and animal life, irrigation, navigation, hydroelectric power and bibliographic collection on the river. (Ganga River, 2000)
http://www.indiaexpress.com/embassy/indnepre12.html
The above-mentioned site gives details of agreement between India and Nepal on water release and construction of dam over the Maha Kali river, which flows at the border of India and Nepal.
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html
The site of Centre for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa is an introductory guide to many of the maps and references available on WWW. List of more than 800 sites are there including a link to site having miscellaneous maps of India.
Web site on methodology of Data Compilation and mapping procedures.
http://www.Irn.org/pubs/wrr
This site under International River Network has different editions of World River Review, a news letter having information on effect of deleterious developmental activities on the rivers through out the world.
http://www.fisheries.org
The above web sites is of American Fishery Society is an important starting points for fisheries professional interested in jobs and career development, software, internet guide. The site provides information about various fishery related electronic mailing list with details of subscription and E-mail addresses. The list of fishery related software and databases are also found on this site.
http://www.mesc.usgs.gov
The web site of U S Geological Survey contains lot of information on effect of hydrological parameters on the aquatic flora and fauna of rivers. The information on interaction between riparian zone and stream is also available. Various software for predicting microhabitat conditions in river as well as the function of stream flow, software for predicting stream water temperature from stream geometry, meteorology and hydrology data are available. The site also contains links to many other water related sites on the web. The information available on this site will be useful for quantifying the minimum water requirement for different life stages of different fishes that will be helpful in sustaining fish biodiversity after water diversion for other non fishery uses.
http://www.web.pac.dfo/gc.ca/FHIP/mpo
The site contains full information on Fisheries Information Summary System (FISS), which is a georeferenced summary level fish and habitat database for water bodies throughout the province of British Columbia, Canada. The site contains procedures about data compilation and mapping.
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ric
The site contains maps of geographical distribution of fishes of British Columbia Canada. The site contains methodologies on aerial photography for fish habitat, freshwater biological sampling, field key to freshwater fishes, fish collection methods and standards, fish and fish habitat inventory methodologies, photo documentation of aquatic inventories and standards for fish and fish habitat maps.
http://www.nwrc.gov
The web site of the National Wetland Research Centre contains lots of information on habitat suitability index for various fishes found in USA, about methodology of wetland and deepwater habitat classification in USA as well as the life histories and environmental requirement of coastal fishes and invertebrates
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/fishery/fishery.htm
The web site of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has lot of databases on marine, inland and culture fishery, information on fishery resources; situation; outlook and policies are also available on this site. The software is classified as education software, software for programmer and other software for biological studies. Information on various useful specific online field biology software can be found on this site.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/fish/tnhc/na/naindex.html
The site contains taxonomically structured distribution maps, images, and general information on freshwater fishes of North America.
http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/edh/graphs.htm
Information of river stages basin wise, hydrographs for current year, district rainfall maps, navigation report on the Vicksburg district of USA are available.
http://www.nbii.gov/
The site of National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). USA, NBII is an Internet based federation of biological resources data information product and data analysis tools from many different sources. The NBII focuses at providing online access to experts and has directories of experts for various biological science disciplines.