• University of California (UC):
• Center for Water Resources - The UC Center for Water Resources is a multi-campus research unit organized as a part of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.


• Berkeley
• Berkeley Water Center - will take a comprehensive approach to water resources management that reflects the conditions being faced in the 21st Century with variable and uncertain supply, increasing demand, and inadequate structural and institutional infrastructure.
• Digital Library Project
• Interviews on California Water Resources Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley    (Note: WRCA has copies of most of these volumes available for use in the library.)


• Davis (UCD)
• California Rivers Assessment (CARA) is intended to provide a comprehensive inventory and evaluation of California's river resources for use in management, planning, and policy making.
• California Watershed Projects Inventory (CWPI) A cooperative project to improve access to information on watershed protection projects and associated data in California. (Now part of Natural Resource Projects Inventory (NRPI).)
• Information Center for the Environment (ICE) UC Davis
• Land, Air & Water Resources (LAWR) UC Davis
• Water Resources and Environmental Modeling Group
• Water Resources and Environmental Systems Analysis Group UC Davis


• Santa Barbara (UCSB)
• Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
• Directory of Water and Wildland Expertise in California


• California State University (CSU):
• California State University Agricultural Research Initiative (ARI)
• Cal Poly
• Irrigation Training and Research Center - ITRC is a center of excellence housed within the BioResource and Agricultural Engineering (BRAE) Department of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo.
• Fresno
• Center for Irrigation Technology
• San Bernardino (CSUSB)
• Water Resources Institute


• Claremont College - Water Resources Collections


• Dartmouth Flood Observatory - Dartmouth University: The Observatory detects, maps, measures, and analyzes major flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing. The record of such events is preserved here as a World Atlas of Flood Hazard. Also provided are yearly catalogs, large-scale maps, and images of river floods, from 1985 to the present. As the archive of reliable data grows, it is increasingly possible to predict where and when major flooding will occur, and to analyze trends over time.


• Hanover College - Rivers Institute - The mission of the Rivers Institute is to enhance understanding of the culture, economics, and science of river systems around the world. The Rivers Institute strives to achieve this mission by facilitating the sharing of knowledge and promoting discussion of timely issues regarding the culture, economics, and science of river systems; providing expertise and consulting services; and enhancing the academic program for students at Hanover College and providing educational resources in river-related subjects for K-12 teachers and classrooms. We also develop continuing education programs for the Hanover College community and the general public.


• University if Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The Center for Water as a Complex Environmental System (CWACES) is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Illinois in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences devoted to improving understanding of water related issues. The focus of CWACES is to provide cohesion to the array of scholarship involving water at the university through research, teaching, and outreach. CWACES provides a home for inquiry about water-based environmental issues that consider water as the central component of a system of interacting parts that includes human activities and physical processes. CWACES is devoted to encouraging the merger of the study of natural processes with the human dimensions of water issues.


• University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) - Las Vegas and Water in the West - An online exhibit highlighting the water-related collections of UNLV.


• University of North Carolina (UNC):
  - Stream Restoration Program
  - Water Resources Research Institute



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• Center for Watershed Education - The mission of The Center for Water Education is to stimulate and promote an awareness and appreciation of water related issues - - - past, present and future and to provide leadership for a better understanding of the history of water and its importance in our daily lives. The Center is located in Hemet, California and is funded chiefly by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).


• Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws The Centre is a multi-disciplinary endeavour established in the School of Commerce. It is a research concentration of the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. It comprises lawyers, engineers and scientists as well as researchers from other divisions of the University of South Australia. It aims to engage with, and be a focal point for, research into the legal, economic, social and cultural evaluation of Australian and International water policies and law.


• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - CEH is the UK's Centre of Excellence for research in the land and freshwater environmental sciences.


• Karst Waters Institute is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit institution whose mission is to improve the fundamental understanding of karst water systems through sound scientific research and the education of professionals and the public.


• National Academies
• Water Information Center - This portal has more than 100 peer reviewed reports from the National Academies that offer independent, objective advice on many water-related issues in the United States and abroad.
• Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB) National Research Council 


• National Environmental Services Center (NESC) serves as a clearinghouse for information about drinking water, wastewater, environmental training, and solid waste management in communities serving fewer than 10,000 individuals.


• National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) Serves as a gateway to each of the 54 water resources institutes/centers.


• Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security An independent, non-profit center created in 1987 to do research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security.


• Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR)


• Water Education Foundation A non-profit organization dedicated to developing and implementing education programs leading to a broader understanding of water issues and resolution of water problems.
• Western Water Archive 


• Water Environment Research Foundation


• Water Institute - National Council for Public-Private Partnerships

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