In this section we could very easily had presented a list of 300 references, or directed you to more than 30 websites, so brimming with facts and figures that they would have made your head spin. Instead, because our goal is to develop a site which does not simply add more clutter to the World Wide Web, we have tried to select, and summarize, a few good books and several excellent magazine articles.

There have also been a few interesting newspaper articles, though these are more notable for the distortion they bring to the facts than any light they may shed on the situation.

Links are then given to a (small) number of important websites, where you can find the voluminous and detailed facts and figures, if you want them.

Finally, there is a glossary of the words and concepts that call for definition. Here is also a table of conversion factors, because although there are only two nations in the world* that have not yet officially switched to the metric system, one of them remains very influential on water technology worldwide!

* Burma and the United States