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Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable for National Progression

SWRR focuses on developing indicators for tracking water sustainability, collaborating with multiple sectors, expanding participation, and enhancing water resource management. The future work involves outreach, training workshops, and fostering partnerships for water sustainability. To achieve consensus, critical processes, decision support tools, data inventory, monitoring technologies, water valuation, and policy/law enhancement are essential. Contact co-chairs Rick Swanson and Bob Goldstein, coordinator Tim Smith, and manager David Berry for more information.

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Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable for National Progression

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  1. Sustainable Water Resources Roundtablehttp://water.usgs.gov/wicp/acwi/swrr/ Tim Smith, Coordinator Bob Goldstein, Co-Chair

  2. SWRR Activities • Development of principles, criteria and indicators to support decision-making • Identification of opportunities for collaboration on research needs • Strategies to expand SWRR participation to states, non-profits,  academia and corporations

  3. SWRR’s Framework General Framework for Driving Forces and Underlying Processes

  4. Sample Indicator Gross Water Availability

  5. SWRR’s Outreach • About 300 active participants from Federal State and Local Government, Corporations, Non profits and Academia • About 550 people on distribution list • Meetings held in California, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia • Various publications and conference presentations

  6. SWRR Future Work • Complete, revise and refine indicators for tracking the sustainability of water resources • including indicators scalable to national, state and local levels • Assist agencies • by describing the need for programs to collect the information necessary for generating indicators • Increase representation • from state & regional water management programs

  7. SWRR’s Future Work • Expand relationships with the scientific community • to draw on the best ideas in water disciplines • to encourage research into sustainability as it relates to water resources • Consult with other programs on water-related indicators, including • National Research Council’s Key National Indicator Initiative • Council on Environmental Quality • Heinz Foundation • Others • Plan a National Forum on Sustainable Water Resources

  8. SWRR’s Future Work • Develop a training workshop • Expand contacts in industrial community • Continue meetings to inform & involve those in different regions of the nation • Conduct Hill briefings, coordinate with EESI

  9. Represented Sectors • Power generation • Agriculture and forestry • Urban issues • Manufacturing/industry • Ecological protection • Ethics, law and policy

  10. Consensus Needs • Improved understanding of critical water resource processes and their impact on sustainability • Decision support models/tools • Better inventory of critical data • New monitoring technologies • Quantify “value” of water • New policy and law to manage water on regional basis • Conserve relevant specialists • Collaboration

  11. SWRR Contacts Co chairs Rick Swanson rswanson@fs.fed.us Bob Goldstein rogoldst@epri.com Coordinator Tim Smith etsmithusa@netscape.net Manager and Facilitator David Berry Davidberry@aol.com

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