National Report: Responding to National Water Resources Challenges; Building Strong Collaborative Relationships for a Sustainable Water Resources Future

National water resources are currently being challenged by five primary driving factors: Aging infrastructure; population growth causing rising water demand; environmental pollution from nutrient and chemical runoff from farms, sewers, roads and sidewalks; competing uses for water (agriculture and electricity production); weather extremes from droughts to floods that create situations of too little or too much water to manage and degraded water quality.

This report by the Army Corps of Engineers takes a look at these key drivers and assesses what is needed to address these issues. Some of the findings in the report represent similar needs at both the regional and national level, including:

• funding support;
• sharing of data and information;
• Addressing an aging infrastructure;
• Support to reinforce Integrated Water Resource Management;
• Technical assistance;
• Demand for water quality and water supply;
• Balancing competing demands;
• resolution of water rights;
• Addressing policy, authority, legislation and regulatory needs including governance gragmentaion. And;
• Promote collaboration, coordination and communication among water resources stakeholders.

Click here to view the report.