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Water Resources Management Projects

ELI is studying water resource use and opportunities for water re-use and efficiency, with a project currently focused on Puget Sound.
ELI examines federal, state, and local watershed measures to protect water resources and assure their availability for use while maintaining ecological and hydrological integrity of watersheds, estuaries, basins, and groundwater systems. Current ongoing projects include work in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, projects in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and a focus on ecosystem-based management in coastal areas.
ELI works on Ecological Indicators useful for management of watersheds and water resources systems.

The Water Resources Program works to promote the sustainability, quality, and utility of water resources. Led by Senior Attorneys James McElfish and Bruce Myers, Senior Science & Policy Analyst Jessica Wilkinson, Staff Attorney Kathryn Mengerink, and Science Policy Analyst Rebecca Kihslinger, the Program focuses on four objectives:

Protect water quality by increasing the effectiveness of laws and management programs that affect water quality;
Conserve wetlands by applying the best science and policy tools, and by recognizing excellence through the National Wetlands Awards;
Reform water resource management by improving governance and decisionmaking on water quantity and use; and
Sustain healthy oceans by improving laws and policies that affect the ocean environment and industrial uses of it.

Please also visit ELI’s International Water Program