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Integrated Water Availability Assessments examine water supply, use, and availability. Snow from the Upper Colorado River Basin contributes 92% of the natural streamflow to the entire Colorado River Basin. The UCOL IWAAs will improve our understanding of the water budget, status and trends in water quality and ecological conditions, and ecosystem response to changes in climate and human water use.
Integrated Water Availability Assessments (IWAAs) examine the supply, use, and availability of water. These assessments evaluate water quantity and quality in both surface and groundwater, as related to human and ecosystem needs and as affected by human and natural influences. When fully implemented, IWAAs will conduct regional water-availability assessments in each of ten medium-sized watersheds selected as Integrated Water Science (IWS) basins. These regional intensive assessments in reference basins form the mechanism to develop and evolve nationally integrated assessment and predicti
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President Donald Trump will leave office next year having overseen robust growth in federal science spending over his 4 years in office, despite his administration’s repeated efforts to slash research budgets. Carlos Barria/Reuters
Massive 2021 U.S. spending bill leaves research advocates hoping for more
Dec. 22, 2020 , 5:20 PM
The massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that the U.S. Congress finally agreed upon this week should once again reverse the deep cuts the President Donald Trump had proposed for most science agencies, although the outgoing politician has threatened not to sign the bill. Even if he does, the modest hikes for 2021 have left the research community wanting more.