Cooperative Matching Funds
The Cooperative Matching Funds Program monitors and assesses water in every State, protectorate, and territory of the U.S. in partnership with nearly 1,600 local, State, and Tribal agencies. <read more>
Features
New Products
Our Mission
"The Mission of the USGS Cooperative Matching Funds Program is to provide reliable, impartial, and timely information needed to understand the Nation's water resources through a program of shared efforts and funding with State, Tribal, and local partners to enable decision makers to wisely manage the Nation's water resources."
On-the-Ground Activities Addressing National Priority Issues
- Measuring Continuous Nitrate in our Waters: How, Where, and Why
- USGS and Tribes Work Together on Water Resource Issues (USGS Story; State Summary of Activities)
- Drought – The Stealth Disaster
- Measuring the Flow: The Importance of Streamgages
- Measuring the Flow: Uses of Streamflow Information
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Cyanobacteria
- Environmental flows
- Stakeholder Webinar - Understanding the Effects of Groundwater Pumping on Streamflow Depletion through USGS Capture Maps (held November 20th, 2013) (Logistics and abstract; audio/video from webinar (wmv); Presentation (pdf); USGS responses to questions not included in Webinar discussion (pdf))
- Stakeholder Webinar - Ecological Flows in the Shenandoah River Valley, Virginia (held March 7th, 2013) (details and background; science presentation; audio/video from webinar (wmv))
- Stakeholder Webinar - Cyanobacteria in Kansas (held November 14th, 2012) (details and abstract; science presentation (pdf); audio/video from webinar (wmv); comments by WaterOne (pdf); comments by Kansas Water Office (pdf)
- Stakeholder Webinar - Managing Water Above and Below (held March 21, 2012; pdf 10 mb)
Stakeholders Speak:
Summaries of Cooperator Roundtables
- Synthesis of Roundtable Recommendations
- Colorado River Basin (meeting book)
- Pacific Northwest
- Florida
- Mid-Atlantic Region
- Ohio River Basin
- Upper Missouri River Basin
- Upper Mississippi River Basin
- Southeast
- California
- New England
- National Stakeholder Meeting in Washington D.C.