Institute for Water Resources News

Willamette River, Oregon: Moving Toward Basin-Wide Flow and Floodplain Restoration

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT

INTRODUCTION Over the last 50 years, river management has evolved from an emphasis on economic

Savannah River, Georgia: Science to Support Adaptive Implementation of Environmental Flows to a Large Coastal River, Floodplain, and Estuary

Amanda Wrona Meadows, Darold Batzer, Merryl Alber, and Rebecca R. Sharitz — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:00:00 GMT

INTRODUCTION Rivers of the Southeastern United States traverse a wide coastal plain where they are

Bill Williams River, Arizona: Restoring Natural Variability in an Arid Lands River

Andrew Hautzinger — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:00:00 GMT

A truism of managing natural systems is that Mother knows best. This is being applied to the

Green River, Kentucky, Conservation Project

W. Michael Turner — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:00:00 GMT

How can something exist and not exist at the same time, effect change yet remain almost invisible

Models and Software for Supporting Ecologically Sustainable Water Management

John T. Hickey — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:00:00 GMT

Models and software for supporting ecologically sustainable water management - As awareness leads to improved scientific understanding (and vice versa), more strategies linking water and ecosystem management will be identified, which will in turn become new analytical challenges for software tools.

Incorporating Environmental Flows into Water Management

Andrew T. Warner — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT

Feature: Incorporating environmental flows into water management - Environmental flows defined using the Savannah Process explicitly ignore all real or perceived constraints to their immediate implementation, including those that are physical, legal, social, political, or financial.

Water: One Resource, Many Uses

Lisa T. Morales and Larry J. Prather — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT

This originally appeared in a collaborative effort issue of IMPACT with The Nature Conservancy’s Sustainable Waters Program to highlight the cutting-edge work and research the program is conducting. I would like to give a big thanks to Nicole Silk and Andrew Warner of The Nature Conservancy for their hard work in organizing this unique and informative issue as well as their continued dedication to river protection.

Introduction: Environmental Flows

Nicole Silk and Clay J. Landry — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Introduction: Environmental Flows - Allocating water for diverse and often competing traditional uses for water (e.g., industry, agriculture, urban, energy, etc.) is now even more complex due to the implications of climate change. Society’s expectation that ecosystem health receive adequate attention and accommodation has expanded this equation even further.