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US Geological Survey - Water Resources Research

The Water Resources Research program conducts long-term research assessments of water resources to support decision making that affects the quantity and quality of the nation's water. Specific issues addressed by the program include water supply, flood hazard reduction, and watershed management.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program does a good job of using limited resources and works with a wide array of partners. For example, Water resource's National Water Use reports rely on data provided by other federal agencies, and state and local government
  • The program generally meets it goals. In 2005, 39% of aquifers have indicators necessary to inform decisions about ground water quality.
  • Water resources has commissioned independent review of segments of its research; however, they have not conducted a comprehensive program review.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Outline program of study by the USGS Ground-Water Resources Program to improve our estimates of regional ground-water availability across the Nation.
  • Publish technical information to support Mississippi River Basin/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force & EPA plan to target federal funding in 100 Mississippi River Basin watersheds
  • Convert USGS streamgage stations to high data rate radio transmission capability.

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