Toward a Sustainable and Secure Water Future A Leadership Role for the U.S. Geological Survey (2009) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
Pages 16-21
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The strategic challenge for the future is to ensure adequate quantity and quality of water to meet human and eco logical needs in the face of growing competition among domestic, indus trial-commercial, agricultural, and environmental uses. To address water resources problems likely to emerge in the next 10-15 years, decision makers at all levels of government will need to make informed choices among often conflicting and uncertain alternatives." SOURCE: National Research Council (2004b)
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It will cover all of the major topical areas of WRD activities: groundwater and surface water, water quality and quantity issues, hydrologic hazards, water availability, water use, and aquatic ecology. Key aspects of WRD science and operation will be covered, including long-term data collection and dissemination, interpretive studies, methods development, including development of hydrologic models, and basic research.
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USGS research, studies, and data are used by other federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; the private sector; and academia as a basis for a wide range of water resources research and water planning and management decisions, including: water infrastructure design and maintenance, flood monitoring and emergency notification, drought monitoring, water rights administration, water quality management, and other related services. The USGS is also a trusted source of hydrologic data and science for resolving inter-jurisdictional disputes, such as water disputes between states.
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Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Field-based research to understand behavior of toxic substances in the nation's hydrologic environments for development of strategies to clean-up and protect water quality. Groundwater Resources Program: Groundwater data collection and the evaluation of controls on regional aquifer systems due to pumping and other stresses.
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are the key operational units of the Coop program, and they also interact with all of the organizational units and participate in the field operations, and often the management and design of some or all of the programs noted in Box 1-2. In this report the committee puts forward critiques, findings, and recommendations that will help the USGS WRD focus its programs to facilitate effective management of the nation's water resources.
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In the following chapters, we will first review the WRD past performance, then set the stage for suggestions for the future (Chapters 2 and 3)
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