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National Programs
Water Resource Management
Program Summary:
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- Reliable characterizations of agricultural watersheds that determine the
temporal and spatial variability of important hydrologic processes
- Safer and more cost-effective measures to protect farms, ranches, and
rural communities from ravages of floods and droughts, and from rising
demands on the Nation's limited water resources
- Improved technologies to better manage riparian areas, wetlands, aquatic
ecosystems, and stream corridors for the protection of agricultural
watershed health and prevention of water quality degradation
- Improved structures and channels to store and regulate water supplies
for flood control, water conservation, and cost-effective water reuse
- Improved strategies that enhance and safeguard the amount and quality of
water supplies used for rainfed crop production and livestock production on
rangelands and pasture lands
- More water-efficient methods and agricultural systems for producing
high-value crops that reduce impacts from increased salinity and groundwater
depletion while ensuring the long-term sustainability of irrigated
agriculture
- Improved strategies and decision support systems that will allow
irrigated agriculture to reuse waste and drainage waters without comprising
crop production, food safety, or water quality impacts
- Modernization of drainage management systems that improve soil and water
resources, agricultural production practices, and cost-effective use of
agricultural chemicals
- Improved technologies to maintain the viability of agriculture while
protecting water quality from degradation by excess nutrients, pesticides
and other synthetic chemicals, pathogens, sediments, salts, trace elements,
and increased water temperatures
- Comprehensive data bases, models, and decision support systems for use
in promoting sound water policies and strategies to manage the Nation's
water resources and mediate conflicts
- New and innovative concepts, assessment tools, and integrated
agricultural and rangeland systems that predict and improve water quality at
the field, farm, and watershed scales
- Improved linkage of water resource information systems and technology
transfer to customers
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Last Modified: 05/14/2001
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