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National Water Company (Saudi Arabia)
The National Water Company (Arabic: شركة المياه الوطنية) is a Saudi joint stock company, fully state-owned, providing water supply and sanitation services since its 2008 creation.
National Water Supply and Drainage Board
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) is the principal statutory authority for safe drinking water and sanitation in Sri Lanka, established in January 1975.
National Wealth Fund (NWF RU)
The National Wealth Fund (Фонд национального благосостояния, FNB) is Russia's oil-and-gas savings and budget-reserve fund, managed by the Ministry of Finance and held within the federal budget.
National Weather Association
The National Weather Association (NWA) is a United States nonprofit professional association, incorporated in 1975 to promote operational meteorology; it publishes the Journal of Operational Meteorology and certifies weathercasters.
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service, formerly the United States Weather Bureau, is a US federal agency within NOAA that issues weather forecasts, warnings, and climate data from Silver Spring, Maryland.
National wetland policy in Africa, Latin America, the Pacific and the Middle East
National wetland policy in Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, and the Middle East covers the country-level laws, programs, and institutions governing wetlands outside regions with the most developed statutes.
National wetland policy in Asia
National wetland policy in Asia is the set of laws and rules by which Asian countries protect and manage their wetlands, with China's first comprehensive statute effective June 2022.
National wetland policy: comparative structures and inventory programs
A national wetland policy is the set of laws, permits, and inventory programs by which a country protects, regulates, and maps its wetlands, using models that differ widely.
National Wetlands Inventory
National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), a 1974 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program, maps U.S. wetlands and deepwater habitats using the Cowardin classification, publishes the Wetlands Mapper and Status and Trends reports, and is not a jurisdictional wetland determination.
National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation is a nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1936 by cartoonist J. N. "Ding" Darling, uniting Americans to protect wildlife through advocacy, habitat restoration, and education.
National Wildlife Rescue Centre
The National Wildlife Rescue Centre (Malay: Pusat Menyelamat Hidupan Liar Kebangsaan, NWRC) is a government facility in Sungkai, Perak, Malaysia, rescuing and releasing wildlife since 2013.
National Women's Day
National Women's Day, South Africa's 9 August public holiday since 1994, commemorates the 1956 march of over 20,000 women to the Union Buildings against apartheid pass laws; distinct from the American National Woman's Day of 1909 and from International Women's Day.
National Women's Soccer League
National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), top US women's pro soccer league, single-entity, founded 2012, launched 2013; 14 teams in 2025, 16 in 2026; $3.3M cap rising to $5.1M by 2030; draft abolished 2024.
National Wool Museum
National Wool Museum: name shared by the Welsh national woollen-industry museum at Dre-fach Felindre (established 1984 by Amgueddfa Cymru, reopened 2004) and the Geelong, Australia museum opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 in an 1872 woolstore.
National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), American pro wrestling promotion and former governing body founded 1948 by Pinkie George; ran the territory system and NWA World Heavyweight Championship; owned since 2017 by Billy Corgan's Lightning One.
National yearbooks of international law
National yearbooks of international law are annual, country-named scholarly periodicals covering international law and national state practice. Beginning with the British Yearbook (1920) and Swiss Yearbook (1944), the format spread worldwide during the Cold War and now includes English-language post-1990 titles.
National youth orchestras
National youth orchestras are pre-professional ensembles recruiting talented young musicians from across an entire country, with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain founded in 1948 as the world's first.
National Youth Service Corps
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC): mandatory one-year national service program for Nigerian graduates, established by Decree No. 24 of 22 May 1973 under General Yakubu Gowon to foster unity after the Civil War; comprises orientation camp, primary assignment, CDS, passing-out; reformed 2026.
National Youth Theatre
National Youth Theatre (National Youth Theatre of Great Britain), British youth theatre charity founded 1956 by Michael Croft; free auditions for ages 14-25 (30 if disabled), ~5,000 auditionees yearly, alumni include Mirren, Craig, Pugh.
National Zoo
National Zoo refers to Zoo Negara (Malaysia's national zoo, opened 1963, over 4,096 animals) and the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. (founded 1889, free admission, about 2,200 animals).
National Zoological Park
The National Zoological Park, known until 1982 as the Delhi Zoo, is a public zoo of about 176 acres in New Delhi, India, opened in 1959 between Purana Qila and Humayun's Tomb.
National-anarchism
National-anarchism is a far-right, "beyond left and right" ideology advanced since the late 1990s by Troy Southgate, advocating stateless ethnically homogeneous "national autonomous zones"; scholars classify it as rebranded fascism, not anarchism.
Nationalisation in Tanzania
Nationalisation in Tanzania was the program of state takeovers beginning in February 1967, when President Julius Nyerere's government brought banks, industries, and trade under public ownership.
Nationalism
Nationalism: political ideology treating the nation as the primary source of identity and legitimacy, claiming self-determination, typically statehood. Key ideas: Anderson's imagined communities and print capitalism, Kohn's civic/ethnic dichotomy, primordialist versus modernist origins debates.
Nationalist Citizens Party of India
Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), a registered unrecognised Indian party founded 2022, ECI-registered 20 January 2023, Howrah-based, that gained prominence when 20 rebel TMC MPs merged with it in June 2026.
Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar
Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) is the Sharad Pawar faction of India's NCP after the July 2023 split; it uses the 'man blowing turha' symbol, while Ajit Pawar's faction kept the NCP name and clock.
Nationalist Congress Party (राष्ट्रवादी काँग्रेस पक्ष)
Nationalist Congress Party (राष्ट्रवादी काँग्रेस पक्ष), Maharashtra party founded 1999 by Sharad Pawar, Sangma and Anwar after splitting from Congress; clock symbol; 2023 split gave name and symbol to Ajit Pawar's faction.
Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Nationalist faction (bando nacional) was the Franco-led coalition of army rebels, monarchists, Carlists, Catholics, and the Falange that fought the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939; backed by Germany and Italy, it won the war and ruled Spain until 1975.
Nationalist Movement Party
Nationalist Movement Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP): Turkish nationalist right party founded February 1969 by Alparslan Türkeş from the CKMP, led by Devlet Bahçeli, allied with the AKP in the People's Alliance.
Nationalist Parliamentary Front
The Nationalist Parliamentary Front (Frente Parlamentar Nacionalista) was a cross-party bloc of Brazilian federal deputies active from 1956 to 1964, a central actor in national-developmentalism debates.