Additional Links

EarthGuide

This is an animated diagram of the groundwater system. There are other good animations and learning resources here as well.
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/groundwater

United States Environmental Protection Agency

General ground water protection information.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/

EPA Tribal Source Water Protection initiatives.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/protect/tribe.html

Source Water Protection information.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/protect.html

Brief answers to frequently asked groundwater questions. There are some good tidbits of information about general water use statistics and the importance of groundwater.
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/index.html

Marquette County Community Information System

This site has a lot of good groundwater illustrations.
http://www.marquettecd.org/

United States Geological Survey Ground Water Information Pages

This is the main site for information about water in the United States. You will find many research papers and a lot of data.
http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/

This site has information about Minnesota water, including reports about ground water research at Tribal communities throughout Minnesota.
http://mn.water.usgs.gov

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Ground Water

This is the place to go for Minnesota-specific water information. This is pretty good general information and not as academic sounding as the USGS.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/groundwater/index.html

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: Ground Water in Minnesota

Information about the quality of Minnesota’s ground water.
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/groundwater/index.html

Minnesota Online County Well Index

This is an online search engine you can use to find information about wells throughout Minnesota. You can search for a well’s depth, when a well was drilled, its location, etc. You will not be able to locate public water supply wells on this database, however, due to security concerns.
http://mdh-agua.health.state.mn.us/cwi/cwiViewer.htm

Minnesota Department of Health Ground Water

Minnesota ’s wellhead protection planning information.
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/swp/whp/index.htm

Drinking Water Protection overview.
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/index.html

Information about protecting your private well with testing.
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/wells

Minnesota Rural Water Association

You can learn more about preserving Minnesota’s water supplies at the community level.
http://www.mrwa.com/

Minnesota Ground Water Association

You can check out what sorts of projects Minnesota ground water professionals spend their time on by looking at newsletters
http://www.mgwa.org/

National Ground Water Association

Good ground water education fact sheets to print and use.
http://www.ngwa.org/publication/index.aspx

Ground water issues and politics, including legislation affecting water and the environment.
http://www.ngwa.org/PROGRAMS/pac/index.aspx