Watershed Management and Restoration

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.

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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources

Reclaiming Poland's Riverine Resources: Final Report Covering Period 9/14/92-4/31/96

Published: 
March 1, 1997
U.S. Agency for International Development
The overall objective of this project was the development of a verifiable, spatially extensible Geographic Information System model of vegetation, soils, land use, topography, and nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics within the Olawa River watershed inwestern Poland. We have completed the overall GIS...Read more
Regional focus: 
Europe and Central Asia

Southern Zone Water Management Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Southern Zone Water Management Project aims to increase cereals, mainly rice production through improved water control and management in the Ziguinchor and Kolda regions. The project grew out of the need to address the loss of cultivated rice lands to saline and acid conditions, due to the...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Mid-term Evaluation Report: Southern Zone Water Management Project (SZWMP) -- Senegal

Published: 
May 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Southern Zone Water Management Project (SZWMP) was authorized by USAID/Dakar on August 19, 1988. The purpose of the eight-year $18 million Project is to improve farmer utilization of water and recovery of fertile valley lands for agricultural purposes in the southern regions of Kolda and...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Optimum Utilization of Water Resources for Agriculture With Special Emphasis on Systems Analysis of Watershed Management; Annual Technical Report 1971/1972

Published: 
April 17, 1973
U.S. Agency for International Development
As a member of a consortium of U.S. universities dedicated to providing assistance for increasing world food production through optimum utilization of water resources for agriculture, the University of Arizona has concentrated its activities on those concerned with the source of the water supply...Read more

Optimum Utilization of Water Resources for Agriculture With Special Emphasis on Systems Analysis of Watershed Management; Annual Technical Report 1970/1971

Published: 
January 1, 1971
U.S. Agency for International Development
Strengthening the University of Arizona's competency in the area of watershed management utilizing systems analysis techniques applied to problems of less developed countries has taken several forms. The addition and revision of pertinent course curricula, the analyses of research programs...Read more

Optimum Utilization of Water Resources for Agriculture With Special Emphasis on Systems Analysis of Watershed Management; Annual Technical Report

Published: 
January 1, 1970
U.S. Agency for International Development
Annual technical report from the Watershed Management Department on improvements in teaching facilities, and overall strengthening of teaching research and services.Read more

Environmental Restoration in Urban Arizona: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Approach Final Report

Published: 
June 1, 2005
National Water Research InstituteU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The focus of this paper is on Ecosystem Restoration Projects undertaken in Arizona by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), under their Civil Works Mission, in conjunction with local governments in the state. It reports on projects in Pima and Maricopa Counties, the two most populated...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

Weed Risk Assessment for Aquatic Plants

Published: 
January 1, 2012
The Nature Conservancy
Research paper testing the accuracy of an invasive aquatic plant risk assessment system in the United States, modified from a system originally developed by New Zealand's Biosecurity Program. The high accuracy with which these methods can distinguish non-invaders from harmful invaders suggests...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Building Regional Threat Based Networks for Estuaries in the Western United States

Published: 
January 1, 2011
The Nature Conservancy
This study categorizes estuaries of the western United States into hierarchical networks that share similar threat characteristics to analyze the spatial extent of estuary threats. Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

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