Colleague Ari Michelsen of Texas A & M, the current AWRA President, sent me information and a Power Point presentation on the USGS's National Water Census. He serves on the program's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee.
P.L. 111-11 Subtitle F (SECURE Water Act) directs USGS to undertake the work of a National Water Availability and Use Assessment Program. To fulfill this charge, the USGS has created a Water Census to gather the data and report to Congress every five years information on water resources in the context of availability. What a great APE (Acronym-Producing Expression)! Someone got a raise and a promotion for that one!
SECURE stands for ' Science and Engineering to Comprehensively Understand and Responsibly Enhance.'
Download PL_111-11_SECURE_Water_9507-9508
Here is a Power Point summarizing the salient aspects of the Census.
Download Census_Talk03-08-10-compressed
I like to think that an NAS Committee I served on years ago laid the groundwork for this all-important work. Here is our 2002 report: Estimating Water Use in the United States: A New Paradigm for the National Water-Use Information Program
"There's no stopping the future." -- Yogi Berra
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