By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee to Improve the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) validated the nationwide Water caliber Assesment (NAWQA) software in 1985 to evaluate water caliber stipulations and developments in consultant river basins and aquifers around the usa. With this document, the NRC's Water technology and expertise Board has supplied suggestion to USGS concerning NAWQA 5 separate occasions because the software advanced from an unfunded proposal to a mature and nationally - famous software in 2002. This document assesses the program's improvement and consultant accomplishments so far and makes tips on possibilities to enhance NAWQA because it starts its moment decade of national tracking.
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THE FUTURE OF NAWQA The title of this report and the committee’s statement of task clearly indicate issues that will affect the NAWQA program and staff in the future, but they do not fully convey the potential importance of this programmatic review. In the last decade-and-a-half, NAWQA has progressed from a sound concept to a mature program of exemplary quality and importance. NAWQA has led the way to begin the critical, sound scientific assessment of the quality of the nation’s waters. Because of this initial success, NAWQA now carries with it high expectations from many other federal, state, and local agencies, as well as policy makers and legislators.
1995; USGS, 1999). The basic building blocks of the NAWQA program in Cycle I continue to be the study unit investigations of major hydrologic basins located throughout the nation. While the original design of NAWQA called for 60 study units, their number in Cycle I was reduced to 59 in 1996 by combining two adjoining study units in New England that were determined to have similar hydrologic and landuse characteristics. At the time this report was written, a total of 51 Cycle I study unit assessments had been initiated since 1991.
Furthermore, although NAWQA must strive to be responsive to water quality policy and regulatory needs, it cannot be driven or controlled by these needs— thus epitomizing the struggle of doing “good science” in the public policy arena. In this regard, the committee commends NAWQA for doing an excellent job of balancing good science with policy needs in the face of flat budgets. However, NAWQA supporters, users, policy makers, and Congress itself should be made aware of the fine balancing act that this requires, and they should be supportive of the dilemma that it creates for operating such a program.