In recognition of outstanding contributions to public health and environmental protection and advancing EPA's water protection mission, the Water Resources programs of the USGS was honored with the EPA Assistant Administrator for Water's Partners Award. The award commends the "deliberate commitment of USGS to become the principal source of high-quality, accessible, and useful data on the nature, location, and characteristics of our Nation's water." USGS efforts to communicate water information were also commended. The collaboration between USGS and EPA has "helped to shape and make more defensible many controversial and high-visibility risk management decisions." The products of this partnership include "better, faster, and more economical methods and development of a consensus set of water quality data elements for improving consistency and exchange of water quality data among local, State and Federal agencies, and the private sector." USGS Associate Director for Water Robert Hirsch accepted the award on June 24.
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