"For one-third of the world, the real environmental crisis is squalor, smells and disease on the doorstep." India-based organization makes an informed plea to policy-makers, educators, community leaders - everyone - to speak up, be informed and mobilize resources to improve drinking water supplies and sanitation in a sustainable way. Particular emphasis on helping women and children in developing nations.

The aim of this Association is to increase the amount of large scale water reclamation, treatment, and recycling in the world, including through desalination.

Along with groups such as the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the council is part of an international partnership working to bring home water treatment products to communities not served by municipal supplies or safe wells - treatments accompanied by intensive social marketing to ensure proper and continued use. Sponsored by the Chlorine Chemistry Council, plenty of information on this website is about disinfecting procedures, usually favouring chlorine bleach (sodium chlorite), long considered the basic "water cleaner".

Organization for anyone associated with the groundwater industry. Their purpose is to provide guidance to members, government representatives, and the public for sound scientific, economic, and beneficial development, protection, and management of the world's groundwater resources.