Water Summit
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UD's Gerald Kauffman invited to White House summit on World Water Day
8:57 a.m., March 28, 2016--Gerald Kauffman, director of the
Universitys Delaware Water Resources Center (DWRC), attended the White
House Water Summit held March 22 in Washington, D.C.
In conjunction with the United Nations World Water Day, the White
House hosted the Water Summit to shine a spotlight on the importance of
crosscutting, creative solutions to solving the water problems of
today.
The administration of President Barack Obama announced nearly $4
billion in private capital committed to investment in a broad range of
water-infrastructure projects nationwide, more than $1 billion from the
private sector over the next decade to conduct research and development
into new technologies, and nearly $35 million this year in federal
grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation and Department
of Agriculture to support cutting-edge water science.
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At the White House, Kauffman and 200 other attendees heard from the
administration and five U.S. congressmen that water resources research
at universities such as the University of Delaware is especially
pertinent because water is one of America's top domestic public policy
challenges right now. The push is on to invest more in this economic and
environmental resource to prevent another Flint River, California
drought, or coastal flood emergency from occurring.
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The announcement from the White House highlighted national
initiatives such as the research conducted by the DWRC and Nature
Conservancy of Delaware into economic incentives to promote watershed
restoration and the Brandywine Christina Healthy Watershed Fund
research funded through the $35 million William Penn Foundation Delaware
River Watershed Initiative.
Kauffman is the director of the DWRC, one of the 54 National
Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) supported by the U.S. Department
of Interior and U.S. Geological Survey at land grant universities in the
50 states, the District of Columbia, and the three island territories
of Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Kauffman holds faculty appointments as assistant professor in the
School of Public Policy and Administration in the College of Arts and
Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in
the College of Engineering.
The DWRC is a unit of the Institute for Public Administration within the School of Public Policy and Administration.
Article originally published by UDaily.
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