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Conjunctive Water Management (CWM) is the process of using water from multiple sources for consumptive purposes within a sustainability framework. The planned CWM of all waters has the potential to offer major benefits in terms of economic, social, and environmental outcomes through improved efficiencies and sustainability of water resources. Adopting a planned approach brings the greatest potential for optimal capture, storage, abstraction, and reuse systems of all water sources, resulting in a sustainability framework that encompasses the monitoring, analysis, and management of all the water, all the time, everywhere.
This WRRC Water Webinar presentation will discuss how new Smart-Valley monitoring networks and Integrated Hydrologic Modeling (IHM) tools can now be used to create a more holistic CWM sustainability framework, intended to be combined with new governance and financial support.
Randall Hanson is President and Lead Hydrologist for One-Water Hydrologic, LLC, where he helps scientists and engineers use the new One-Water code for their food and water-security analysis and for assessing climate variability relative to CWM sustainability. Hanson worked as a lead research hydrologist with the US Geological Survey for over 38 years, where he helped to implement hydrologic methods and water supply analysis of regional watersheds both nationally and internationally. His research includes the development of integrated hydrologic models across the USA and internationally. He also led the development team for the One-Water version of MODFLOW used for conjunctive water management (CWM), climate-change adaptation, and sustainability analysis, such as California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).