WWW/Gopher service on water related topics, including a directory of experts and institutions (strong USA bias), Watertalk bulletin board, US Geological Survey's (USGS) water resources abstracts database (see separate entry), news, jobs, calendar of events. Organised by Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR).

Also provides keyword searchable access to the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) Research Abstracts database (covers a wide variety of topics that span the time period from 1967 to October, 1993. This database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations, from journal articles, conferences, etc). Database is international in scope