Last updated: 2 June 2009.

Want to know about rivers, water, or pollution? You've come to the right place! We've been developing a range of educational material for teachers and students since 1998. We do a little bit more each year. We hope you find it useful.

Pollution

• Finding out about water pollution (a huge selection of links from which you can explore the subject in much more detail)
• Pollution photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.
• The state of our rivers and seas: handy statistics and graphs

Rivers and water

• Finding out about rivers
• River photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.
• Fishing: everything you ever wanted to know

If you're looking for photos of British rivers, one of the best places we've found is the superb (but slightly oddly named) Flickr pool River Names of Britain: it's a collection of over 5000 photos of British rivers posted by over 450 people.

Climate change

• Finding out about global warming and climate change
• Climate change and global warming photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.

Practical guides

• Adopting a river: How to get out get dirty, and make a difference
• Using environmental law to stop damaging developments: How to challenge environmentally destructive planning permission.

Articles hosted for us by explainthatstuff.com

To reduce the stress on our poor server, some of our education articles are now kindly being hosted by Explain that Stuff website.

• An introduction to rivers
• Finding out about organic food and farming
• Finding out about air pollution
• Water pollution: an introduction: an overview of the whole subject.
• Finding out about water: An overview and lots of links for further research.

Balloon releases

• Balloon releases: pollution factsheet: Text of a leaflet by the Marine Conservation Society about the damaging impacts of balloon race events.
• Up, up, and away?: Another leaflet about balloon releases by the Marine Conservation Society, RSPCA, Tidy Britain Group, and the National Farmers Union.

Useful categories on the DMOZ ODP web directory

• Science: Environment: Water Resources: Rivers and Streams
• Science: Environment: Water Resources: Education

Miscellaneous links

Our general page of links includes media, campaigning, and legal resources.