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Welcome!
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This will be a particularly crucial get-together for the directors of the
Water Resources Institutes. The recently-completely five-year
review [2.8 MB PDF] gives
an up-to-date picture of the status and capabilities of the institute program.
The long-awaited NRC study on water research within the Federal government has
concluded, with its findings and recommendations published as Confronting
the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research. Together with
the preceding study that ranked water research needs Envisioning
the Agenda for Water Resources Research in the Twenty-First Century this
sets the stage for a coherent, strategic approach to water research within the
United States. The Water Institutes should surely play an integral role in implementing
this approach. What role we wish to play, and how to do it, will be debated at
the Washington meeting. The board of NIWR is vigorously engaged with these questions,
through both a strategic-planning process and a prioritization of research needs.
This year we'll meet for the first time at the Washington Terrace Hotel on
Scott Circle. The hotel page gives hotel information and reservation links.
You must make your hotel reservation by February 3 to receive the NIWR meeting
rate.
The Montana Water Center is handling meeting registration - please see the
registration page.
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The final agenda can be downloaded from the website.
This year we shall not be sending out the big "briefing book" ahead of the
meeting. Instead, there will be a small mailing of new or changed information.
The documents that comprise the entire briefing book will
be available for download as soon as committee assignments and contact information
for the 109th Congress is available.
So, here's how to assure your time in Washington is well spent:
- make appointments in the offices of your Congressional
delegation on Capitol Hill
- review the findings of the two NRC studies and the five-year water institute
evaluation; and
- give thought to what role the water institutes, collaborating as NIWR, should
play in the large picture of federally-sponsored water research.
Oh, and -- don't forget to do your regular job! I look forward to working
with you in Washington.
Gretchen Rupp, Meeting Chair
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