Rivers@SLNgeog

The 7-11 Rivers Guide

If you disagree with this list, then propose another site yourself. These are NOT just online learning resources and there will be an element of surprise because at SLN we are thinking out side the box.

1. Fergal the frog's guide to the River Trent www.sln.org.uk/trentweb is our number one site - lots of aerial photographs to explore.

2.River systems of the world www.rev.net/~aloe/river/ has data about many rivers. Remember the biggest myth is that a river has a source, it is many sources.

3. International Rivers Network www.irn.org campaigns against dam building

4. The Environment Agency www.environment-agency.gov.uk is offering educational materials about water and rivers as well as the ability to map floodplains anywhere in the UK..

Floodline Kids is from the Scottish Environment protection Agency. The pages cover topics such as rivers, the water cycle and flooding. The link is www.sepa.org.uk/floodlinekids/index.html

5.The Nile Basin Initiative www.nilebasin.org/ has excellent maps and images as well as information about the whole river.

6.The Severn - a simple overview linked to features from Kent Education.

We also like the Bargeman's site www.severnbore.ndirect.co.uk

7.Don't forget our own site called 'From our own flood correspondents' www.sln.org.uk/geography/Flood2000.htm with images, poetry and accounts of both the Trent and Severn Floods in 2000.

8.The Fatal Flood www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/index.html is an archive with video clips about the 1927 Mississippi Floods

Just doing my job is an account of one man's experience of the flood in 1993 http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/flood/flood_1.html

9.Bangladesh flood photographs here are particularly wonderful at portraying the stoic way the people of Bangladesh cope with the inundation. Thanks to Gill Butterfield for recommending these.

10. The BBC has some great flood stories with powerful images like children queuing for water up to their waists in water.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2053502.stm

or the dog on the window sill in York is one I remember.

11. Wateraid www.wateraid.org.uk is usually a good source of information If anyone knows of any helpful sites, please send them in.

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This page last updated 08 January 2008

This page was last updated 08/01/08