• Drought Watch

  http://drought.unl.edu/watch/watch.htm

  Drought monitor is a comprehensive drought monitoring effort between the USDA (JAWF/NRCS), NOAA/CPC (NCEP/NWS), NOAA/NCDC, and the National Drought Mitigation Center. It monitors the effects and impacts of drought both for the US and globally.

• Drought Conditions in Pakistan: Pakistan Meteorological Department
  
  http://met.gov.pk/drought/maindrought.html

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) is monitoring the drought conditions in the country, represented through colour-coded maps on their website. Beginning from March 2000, these maps form a temporal sequence, depicting the situation after every three months.

• Relief Forum Balochistan:
  
  http://advertasia.com/rfb/
  
  Relief Forum Balochistan is a group of civil society organizations which aims at mitigating the effects of the prevailing drought conditions and to formulate plans to rehabilitate the affected in the medium term and to prepare and plan to avoid such disasters in the long term. The forum has a short term, a mid term and a long-term vision to tackle the situation.

• United Nations - Drought in Pakistan:

http://un.org.pk/drought.htm

This is the site of United Nations on drought in Pakistan. Latest reports produced by UN Resident Coordinator System on drought in Pakistan are published on the site. The site also links international and national news/media coverage of the drought situation. Along with other links the Situation Reports released by the Office for the  Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs can also be accessed through the website

• Illinois State Climatologist Office:

http://www.sws.uiuc.edu/atmos/statecli/drought.htm

The Illinois State Climatologist Office is housed and supported by the Illinois State Water Survey in Champaign IL. Their goal is to advance the use of climate information for the economic and environmental benefit of Illinois through applied research and information service activities. The site gives information on drought, ways to measure drought, drought publications and links to other drought related sites.

• Drought Information Center:

http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/subject/hotopics/drought/drought.htm   

This resource is provided by the Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (Dep). The site has a alot of information related to drought. Different guidelines to follow during a drought emergency are present in the Drought Regulations link. Links to drought definations, press releases, drought tech center etc are present herein. Videos on drought tips, drought plant care and drought emergency declared are also present online.

• Sustaining Water, Easing Scarcity:

http://www.populationaction.org/why_pop/water/water-toc.htm#summary

A Second Update Revised Data for the Population Action International Report, Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies by Tom Gardner-Outlaw and Robert Engelman-Population Action International, 1997 Using the United Nations 1996 population projections, Population Action International (PAI) has revised previous estimates and projections of the amount of fresh water available to each person in most of the world's countries from today to the middle of the coming century. Based on this new range of population figures, PAI calculates that depending on how rapidly population grows, there will be between 400 million and 1.5 billion fewer people living in water short countries in the year 2050 than previously projected.

Sustaining Water, Easing Scarcity: A Second Update is available for downloading and printing in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). The update outlines the causes and consequences of water
scarcity and explains the importance of slower population growth--and eventual population stability--in helping to achieve a sustainable pattern of global water use.

• Action by Churches Together (ACT)

http://www.act-intl.org/appeals/ASPK01.html

Action by Churches Together (ACT) is an alliance of churches and relief agencies responding to emergencies in more than 50 countries worldwide.

ACT member Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS P/A) is proposing to provide the most vulnerable with the following assistance:

Seeds for Agriculture
Fodder for Animals
Potable Water

The overall relief effort represents a coordinated effort by the International NGOs Coordinating Group to which CWS P/A also belongs. At its meeting the coordinating body mapped and allocated the working areas and input sectors to its members.