About
Missouri Water Center
The Missouri Water Center merges two existing research centers at the University of Missouri: The Center for Watershed Management and Water Quality and The Missouri Water Resources Research Center. The merger creates a more focused and inclusive infrastructure for coordinating faculty from various colleges, cooperative extension, and outside partners to conduct leading-edge water research.
In short, the Missouri Water Center presents a new vision in water science in Missouri. The Center will build capacity, accelerate collaboration, and generate new resources to meet today’s and tomorrow’s water resource needs.
Two Organizations Converging
The Center for Watershed Management & Water Quality
The Center for Watershed Management and Water Quality (CWMWQ) was established in 1992 to coordinate the research activities, facilities, and faculty within the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
CWMWQ’s mission includes the development of sustainable solutions to current watershed management, water quantity, and water quality problems.
The CWMWQ emerged from a 1980s faculty seminar series that led to collaborations that enhanced the ability of faculty researchers and extension to address pressing water resources quantity and quality problems in Missouri and beyond.
The Missouri Water Resources Research Center
The Missouri Water Resources Research Center (MOWRRC), housed in the College of Engineering, is one of 54 centers/institutes – one in each state in the U.S., the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam – under the umbrella of the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) program supported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
As a Federal-State partnership, MOWRRC was established under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) of 1964, as amended in 1984 to
- Plan, facilitate, and conduct research to aid in the resolution of State and regional water problems
- Promote technology transfer and the dissemination and application of research results
- Provide for the training of scientists and engineers through their participation in research
- Provide for competitive grants to be awarded under the WRRA. MOWRRC serves as a connection between researchers and potential research beneficiaries and state agencies to address state and regional water-related issues.
Flowing
Forward
The Missouri Water Center serves the state of Missouri and the nation through innovative scientific research on managing water resources, training students for water-related professions, and creating and transferring knowledge that enhances safety and the economic, environmental, and social status of its people.
The Missouri Water Center will build research capacity, accelerate collaboration, advance training of future water professionals, and generate resources necessary to meet today’s and tomorrow’s pressing water resource needs.
Initial goals include:
- Developing and utilizing new technologies for enhanced monitoring and predictive modeling of Missouri’s water resources
- Developing advanced treatment technologies and management practices to maintain safe water supplies and water quality
- Advancing objective economic modeling tools for benefit-cost analysis of water resources management practices
- Enhancing science communication among scientists, management agencies, and the public.
- Training students for the workforce, elected office, and academia via research experiences on pressing water issues
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