Welcome to the WRRI Program!

Welcome to the State Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) Program page! This program, authorized by section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984, is a Federal-State partnership which:

*Plans, facilitates, and conducts research to aid in the resolution of State and regional water problems
*Promotes technology transfer and the dissemination and application of research results
*Provides for the training of scientists and engineers through their participitation in research
*Provides for competitive grants to be awarded under the Water Resources Research Act

The state water resources research institutes authorized by the Act are organized as the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR). NIWR cooperates with the USGS in establishing total programmatic direction, reporting on the activities of the Institutes, coordinating and facilitating regional research and information and technology transfer, and in operating the NIWR-USGS Student Internship Program.

To find out more about the WRRI program, please use the following links:

Program Mission - as described by section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act

News - Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) Program News

The Institutes - addresses of the institutes and links to the institute home pages

Research Projects - text explanations of research programs for each year

Annual Reports - Annual Reports of the Institutes

Project Search - Search the WRRI pages

Internship Program - information on the NIWR - USGS student internship program

NIWR.org - link to NIWR.org

NIWR - visit the National Institutes for Water Research

Back to Main - Back to main page

Visit an Institute - Links to the Institutes' web sites

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/textindex.html
Maintained by: John Schefter
Last Updated: Thursday June 24, 2004 3:18 PM
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