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Dr. G. Padmanabhan Director, ND WRRI Professor of Civil Engineering

The North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute was founded in 1965 by authority of Congress as one of the 54 Institutes throughout the nation and is administered through the United States Geological Survey. The Institute's office is located in the College of Engineering and Architecture of North Dakota State University (NDSU), the land grant university of the State.

Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Feasibility Study

Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Diversion Feasibilty Study

Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Draft Feasibilty Study Report and Environmental Impact Statement

Fargo-Moorhesd Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Feasibility Study

"Institute faculty researcher guides a West Fargo high school student team to 1st place in a NASA national competition"

Institute faculty researcher publishes in Water International.

R. R. Hearne and D. R. Torpen. (2010) Stakeholder preferences for water management alternatives in the Red River Basin, Water International, Volume 35, Issue 2, March 2010,
pages 150 - 164.

Abstract:

Water management in multijurisdictional river basins requires participation and cooperation across stakeholder groups. This research estimates stakeholder preferences for Red River Basin management alternatives. Issues that basin residents and experts considered relevant were identified and preferences for implementing change were assessed. The choice experiments method was used for estimations. An analysis of different stakeholder groups was employed because of an expectation that informed stakeholders and decision-makers would be more engaged with basin management issues, particularly water quality goals and institutional arrangements. However, this analysis demonstrates that the three different samples did not have significantly different preference orderings.

EMERGING SCIENCE: Water Dynamics - Vermont EPSCoR

Selected Podcasts on Water - US Geological Survey

Drinking Water: Understanding the Science and Policy behind a Critical Resource - National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB)

"So You Live Behind a Levee" - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publication