Water Resources Update

Universities Council on Water Resources

Issue No. 110: Winter 1998

Cross Currents in Water Policy

Table of Contents

Foreword  by Robert Ward                                                                                                                                          1

Paradigm Challenge: Integrating Freshwater Research and Education by Penny Firth                                        4

A Giant Step Backward by David H. Moreau                                                                                                             9

Challenges to Water Research by L. Douglas James                                                                                               13

The Changing Nature of Water Management and Its Reflection in the Academic Literature by Christopher Lant                                                                                                                                                                           18

A Perspective From The Chair of The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission by Denise Fort                                                                                                                                                                                                 23

Future Directions in Water Resources Science and Engineering:

A View From the U.S. Geological Survey by Robert M. Hirsch

and Gail E. Mallard                                                                                                                                                   28

Building a Research Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions by Peter W. Preuss                                   34