One Water Management Research Jennifer Warner One Water Management Network Meeting Hunton & Williams Board Room – Washington, DC June 20, 2013.

One Water Management Research

Jennifer Warner

One Water Management Network MeetingHunton & Williams Board Room – Washington, DC

June 20, 2013

Water Research FoundationInvestment in OWM

• Source Water Protection• Clean Water Act/Safe

Drinking Water Act Integration• Water Supply

Diversification

Source Water Protection• Vision

By 2025, every public community water supply will be protection by an active SWP program.

• RoadmapRaise AwarenessEnhance CoordinationProvide SupportIncrease Recognition

Take Advantage of CWA/SDWA Overlaps

• Drinking Water Source Protection Through Effective Use of the TMDL Process (#4007) offers several high level recommendations to understand and utilize TMDLs.

• Get involved and share data – rarely are water suppliers at the table when discussing TMDLs

• Maintain reasonable expectations – water suppliers are among several stakeholders

• CWA/SDWA demonstrate well the challenge of research vs. advocacy

Reservoirs and Their Many Uses• Water supply

• Flood mitigation

• Environmental protection/enhancement

• Hydropower

• Recreation

Dynamic Reservoir Operations (#4306)

• Potomac River: Increase in reliable supply equal to the stand-alone safe yield of five additional large reservoirs, avoiding multi-billion dollar capital improvements

• Kansas River: Increase in reliable supply equivalent to the stand-alone safe yield of a new billion-dollar reservoir.

• New York City: Alternative to constructing a $300 million multi-level intake structure

• Best practice guidance for defining water supply safe yields in multi-use, multi-reservoir systems

• Defined approach for integrating the impacts of climate change on future safe yield estimates

• Strategies for increasing safe yield from similar reservoir systems

• Quantitative and qualitative review of the financial, environmental, and public impacts of selected strategies

Multi-Use, Multi-Reservoir System- 13 Hydroelectric Stations- 11 Interconnected Reservoirs- 831 MW Hydropower- 8,167 MW Nuclear and Fossil- Drinking water for 1.5 million people - FERC Licensed Hydro Project

WaterRF Focus Area ProgramHolistic Strategies to Manage Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Water • By 2015, evaluate and support… “holistic control strategies for managing

contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water.”

NDMA and other Nitrosamines• By 2017… “understand the occurrence, precursor formation, treatment and control,

and fate of nitrosamines…”

Finance• By 2017… “determine impacts of utility governance and ownership on financial

sustainability

Integrated Water/Energy Planning• By 2016… “develop strategies for multi-sector, regional, integrated water-energy

planning…”

Water Supply Diversification

• Several workshops late 2012/early 2013 held by WaterRF and WRRF

• Communications/messaging• Life cycle analysis of all diversification options• Improved monitoring capabilities for IPR/DPR• Distributed stormwater infiltration for IPR

WSD Next Steps• WaterRF anticipates funding several related projects during

latter half of 2013

• Coordinating with WRRF on funding projects identified at Dec 12 DPR workshop

• Anticipate one or more Focus Areas related to IWRM (including WSD) in January 2014

THANK YOU

Jennifer Warner

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