Summary: AWRA National Water Policy Dialogues 1 - 4

It has been a while - 22 September 2008 - since AWRA held its last National Water Policy Dialogue, the fourth in a series that began in September 2002. Technical Director Richard Engberg has just written a summary of the entire series.

Download AWRA_Policy_Dialogues_1-4_Summary

Here is the dialogues home page. Here is a November 2006 Water Resources IMPACT issue on Water Policy: Present and Future.

And here's the PDF of a presentation I gave several months ago, Does the USA Need a National Water (fill in the blank) Vision, Strategy, Policy, Ethic….?

Download GEOG_Seminar_Vision_15Nov2011_v2

Enjoy!

"The US does have a water policy and vision: it’s to have no water policy or water vision." – Gerry Galloway, former AWRA President

Comments

[Boris]

I think that this is a cultural problem, because, in general, there is no appreciation for the science, special regional science. There is one Department with the word of Hydrology in the name in the country, and the Department of Hydrogeology is only in the Berkley Lab.

The water resources and water use may be a subject for scientific consideration. In addition, this is the subject for regional hydrology.

Moreover, in history, last century, this country had the Water Recourses Council in the government. The map of water resources was created, and right directed researches were launched. It did not survive, and I see cultural, not political, rejection.