A collection of links I developed for my SUST 220 Water class at Roosevelt University.

Water in the Chicago Region

• Water in Chicago (Encyclopedia of Chicago)
• Water in Schaumburg Project (SUST 220 / Fall 2011)
• City of Chicago Department of Water Management
• What Our Water’s Worth (Metropolitan Planning Council; maps Chicago area water sources by community)
• How Much Is the Chicago River Worth? (M. Bryson / Jan. 2011)
• Metropolitan Planning Council’s Water Resources
• Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum
• Friends of the Chicago River
• Friends of the Chicago Portage
• North Branch Restoration Project
• Bubbly Creek Restoration Feasibility Study
• History of Wolf Point (timeline and maps)

The Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Commission (US and Canada)
• The Great Lakes Water Wars (companion site to Peter Annin’s book)
• Great Lakes Atlas (EPA)
• Great Lakes Echo (news source from Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism)
• Great Lakes Information Network
• Alliance for the Great Lakes
• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
• International Joint Commission
• Lake Michigan Forum
• Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)

Rivers

• Upper Des Plaines River Ecosystem Partnership
• Lower Des Plaines Ecosystem Partnership
• Hickory Creek Watershed Planning Group
• IL Rivers and their Watersheds (Critical Trends in IL Ecosystems)
• Emiquon restoration (Nature Conservancy)
• Map of the Illinois River watershed (pdf)
• Prairie Rivers Network
• Of Time and the River (IL River, IL DNR)

Wetlands

• Des Plaines River Wetland Demonstration Project
• The Wetlands Initiative
• Wetlands of the Calumet Region
• Illinois Wetlands (IL DNR)
• America’s Wetlands (EPA)
• National Water Summary on Wetland Resources (USGS)
• National Wetlands Inventory (FWS)

The Ecology of Water

• Stream Biology and Ecology (Christi Cave, Univ. of WA)
• Introduction to Watershed Ecology (EPA)
• The Water Cycle (USGS)
• Water (comprehensive EPA site)
• IL State Water Survey and Water Supply
• Metropolitan Planning Council and Openlands report, Before the Wells Run Dry (pdf), 2009
• IL Water Science Center (USGS)
• Freshwater Society

Pollution and Wastewater

• Water Pollution and information on contaminants (EPA)
• Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
• Toxic Waters (NY Times series)
• Poison in the Well (Chicago Tribune series on Crestwood, IL)
• Water Pollution Locator (Scorecard)