Graham Resource Center Research Guide

This database offers customized searches of water use. Covers all great lakes and surrounding states, including Illinois, for 1998 - 2008, by category of use. Search Great Lakes Surface Water withdrawals as well as uses of other water supplies, including groundwater, and download as a spreadsheet.

The USGS cooperates with local, State, and Federal environmental agencies to collect water-use information. USGS compiles these data to produce water-use information aggregated at the county, state, and national levels. Includes comparative analyses by water-use region.

Loads of information, such as a current flood map, a river stage summary table, USGS real-time precipitation data, flood surveillance, Lake Michigan water allocation tables, and more.

CMAP's Executive Summary provides an outline of the Water Plan and summarizes some of its major focus areas and recommendations: the methodology for determining regional water demands and supplies, the importance of integrating land-use and water supply planning, and demand management and other water-saving strategies.

Conducted by SIU Carbondale on behalf of CMAP, this study reveals important consequences of population growth for the region by the year 2050. It generates three water demand scenarios by major water user sectors and geographical subareas within the region. The scenarios represent water withdrawals under a current trends or "baseline" scenario (CT scenario) as well as under a less resource intensive (LRI) scenario and a more resource intensive (MRI) scenario. While the CT scenario assumes a continuation of recent trends for the variables modeled, resulting in a 36% overall increase in water withdrawals by 2050, the region's public water supply needs could grow up to 55 percent by 2050 under the MRI scenario.

This report aimed to determine the water-demand effects that would result from geographically differential patterns of population growth associated with different types of housing within the 11-county study area in Northeastern Illinois- but was unsuccessful due to the aggregated nature of the water-use data.

An expert-reviewed manual that explores full-cost pricing as a tool for local decision makers interested in sustainably managing community water supply.

Dynamic bibliographies on benchmark watersheds, CEAP studies, and more. Dynamic bibliographies can contain topic-related results from any searchable source. The term "dynamic" refers to the fact that a new bibliography is generated each time you use the link, so the bibliography's citations are always up-to-date.

A clearinghouse for bibliographies, treaties (such as the Ramsar Convention), and websites (such as one on hydric soils) dealing with wetlands.

Illinois State Water Survey's well depth monitoring for Illinois wells from the Water & Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Program and Illinois Climate Network. Daily and monthly data provides an indication of groundwater availability.

This education and advocacy group's website features news and information, as well as a concise glossary of groundwater terminology.