Water Resources Partnerships

Opportunities to partner with the USGS and information about existing USGS partnerships

• Advisory Committee on Water Information
• Cooperative Water Program
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Positions
• National Park Service - USGS Water Quality Partnership

National Partner Project Information:

• American Ground Water Trust - A non-profit organization with education programs to inform citizens, communities and decision-makers about ground water and water resources. Click on links to find out about:
  • Ground Water Institute for Teachers -- [A joint USGS / Trust Partnership Program]
    (Over 800 teachers have already completed this training program. Check the site for upcoming events.)
  • Ground Water Information -- Reader friendly information for the general public about ground water and water wells
  • THE AMERICAN WELL OWNER -- A quarterly publication for well owners and communities dependent on ground water
• The Groundwater Foundation -- dedicated to informing the public about one of our greatest hidden resources, groundwater. Find out about three partner projects with this organization:
  • The Groundwater Guardian
  • Children's Groundwater Festival
  • Groundwater University & Grad School
    
• University of Wisconsin - Environmental Resources Center is comprised of University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension staff who apply their research and teaching to the natural resource management needs of Wisconsin.
• Educating Young People About Water -- materials can help you do just that- develop a community-based, youth water education program that targets youth and links key community members in partnerships--all working toward common water education goals.
• Give Water A Hand -- is a national watershed education program designed to involve young people in local environmental service projects.
  
• Upper San Pedro Partnership -- The partnership represents a collaboration of public agencies and organizations that own or control land, or water use, in this portion of the Upper San Pedro River Basin, and that have the authority and resources to identify reasonable, feasible, cost-effective projects and policies, and the ability to actually implement them.
• Water Management of the Regional Aquifer in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed, Arizona—2004 -- Report to Congress (Prepared in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture and Defense and in cooperation with the Upper San Pedro Partnership in response to Public Law 108–136, Section 321