AWRA Webinar Series on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
The series of case studies that prompted AWRA's recommendation of a national move to IWRM is now a webinar series featuring candid discussion with the authors from each of the seven case studies and plenty of Q&A time for all of your burning questions.
AWRA's
seminal report and the basis for this webinar series --
"Case
Studies in Integrated Water Resources Management: From Local
Stewardship to National Vision 
"
-- explores state, multi-state, and regional efforts to
implement IWRM and highlighting its effectiveness at all
levels of water management. Citing programs from Oregon,
California, Washington, Delaware, Minnesota, Florida and
New Mexico, the case studies dispel the mystery behind IWRM
by discussing the process of shifting to an IWRM approach
and the resulting costs and benefits. Together, the selected
set of cases show that IWRM is a powerful and common-sense
approach for managing water in the United States.
Using the collective experiences represented in the seven
case studies, the report finds opportunities to improve
our national stewardship of water resources and concludes
with a recommendation that the United States move toward
integrated water management at all levels of governance.
The following case studies are highlighted in the report
and will be the basis of the webinar series:
Ari
Michelsen - is a professor and Resident Director of
The Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center
at El Paso. His research includes studies on the effectiveness
of agricultural and residential water conservation programs,
water markets and prices, impacts of endangered species
water acquisition programs, air and water quality regulatory
impacts and decision support systems for river basin resource
management and water policy analysis in the U.S., China,
and Chile
John Wells - is the Strategic Planning Director for
the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, a Governor’s
interagency forum for coordinating state environmental
policy, plans, and programs. He enjoys finding ways to
help people integrate the management of water across issues,
agency boundaries, and levels of government. 
Carol
Collier - is Executive Director of the Delaware River
Basin Commission (DRBC), an interstate/federal compact
organization involved in the planning, management, and
regulatory authority for water quantity and quality.