PRAIRIE WATER NEWS ENTERS CYBERSPACE

Prairie Water News has recently joined various other sources of water quality information available on the internet. The internet address for Prairie Water News is:

http://www.sasknet.com/~water

To improve the accessability of information, a search mechanism is being developed. When complete, searches by key word can be carried out for topics such as blue-green algae, iron removal in groundwater, or pesticides in water.

In the future, the Internet will also be used to extend information through Prairie Water Fact Sheets, a compilation of water quality fact sheets generated by prairie agencies. One of the fact sheets will offer an address list of water related internet sites. Identification books, such as weed and algae identification manuals, can also be put on the Net.

As you browse the Net, you will find some other very useful water quality addresses where a wealth of information can be obtained at no charge. Other addresses for water quality information include:

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: http://aceis.agr.ca/

• Alberta Agriculture:http://www

• Alberta Government: http://www.gov.ab.ca

• American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE): http://asae.org/

• American Water Works Association (AWWA): http://www.awwa./

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):http://www.cdc.gov/

• Health Canada - Health Information Network: http://hpb1.hwc.ca:8300/

• Manitoba Government: http://www.gov.mb.ca/

• National Sanitation Foundation: http://www.nsf.org/

• Saskatchewan Government: http://www.sasknet.sk.ca/saskgov.html

• United States Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/

• Universities' Water Information Network (UWIN): http://www.uwin.siu.edu/

• Waterwiser: http://www.waterwiser.org

Prairie Water News acknowledges the technical support of PFRA in the design and production of this newsletter.

A limited number of copies of the proceedings from the Rural Water Quality on the Prairies Workshop, held June 13-15, 1995 in Saskatoon, SK, are available from the Saskatchewan Research Council for $25 per copy. To purchase a copy please contact Yvonne Wilkinson, SRC, at PH.:(306) 933-5425, or fax (306) 933-7817 or email: wilkinson@src.sk.ca

If you would like a subscription to Prairie Water News, forward a cheque in the amount of $20 for ten issues made payable to:

Prairie Water News
c/o Saskatchewan Research Council
15 Innovation Blvd.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7N 2X8
Attn.: Yvonne Wilkinson
Phone: (306) 933-5425, or fax (306) 933-7817 or email: wilkinson@src.sk.ca