Colorado State University (CSU)
International School for Water Resources (ISWR), Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE)
The
Colorado State University (CSU) International School for Water
Resources (ISWR), Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE)
and IWR signed a Memorandum of Understanding recognizing their mutual
interests in promoting collaboration with national and international
organizations and in fostering the improvement of Integrated Water
Resources Management practices globally.
About the Memorandum of Understanding
Signed: January 7, 2008
Signing Parties:
- Luis A. Garcia, Chair (CEE/CSU)
- Robert A. Pietrowsky, Director (IWR)
Purpose: Colorado
State University and IWR intend in partnership to collaborate with
national and international organizations in fostering the improvement
of Integrated Water Resources Management practices and in encouraging
water systems of more economical, efficient, socially and
environmentally sound water resources development and management.
Terms: The Parties are especially interested in pursuing cooperative opportunities in the following areas of common interest:
- Enhancing procedures and methods for Integrated Water Resources Management
- Adaptation to global climate changes and their impacts on water resources
- Methods
for understanding and managing extreme hydrological events and related
natural hazards and disaster preparedness
- Infrastructure development and water security
- Multicriterion
decision analysis (MCDA) and implementation of decision support system
(DSS) in the context of risk analysis and vulnerability assessment
- Water policy and institutional aspects of watershed management
- Transboundary water resources and questions of hydrodiplomacy
- Capacity
building and joint training and education in order to enhance
competency in the various themes of the partnership
- Consensus building, conflict management, and alternative dispute resolution
- Aridity, drought and desertification as special planning and management areas
- Dependable
and safe drinking water and irrigation as well as expansion of water
supplies through efficiency, reuse and better management
- Surface and groundwater, conjunctive water use and related challenges of water quality
About Colorado State University International School for Water Resources
The
International School for Water Resources (ISWR) is a program within the
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Colorado State
University. Colorado State University has the institutional capacity
and the faculty expertise for a world-class presence in Integrated
Water Resources Management, especially in the context of a broader
framework of cooperating institutions. Target audiences for ISWR are
undergraduate and graduate students at CSU, national and international
water professionals needing additional education to keep their skills
current and water user organizations needing skills to address future
water issues. The CSU/CEE Department has a long list of alumni who
excel in water resources planning and management all over the world.
Memorandum of Understanding (pdf, 325 KB)
Colorado State University
International School for Water Resources
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department |
