WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSAL
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSAL
Project ID: 2003RI15B
Title: A Preliminary Web Portal for RI Water Resources
Project Type: Information Management System
Focus Categories: Water Use, Education, Management and Planning
Keywords: information dissemination; water resources; drought; web portal
Start Date: 06/01/2003
End Date: 05/31/2004
Federal Funds: $4980.00
Matching Funds: $19910.00
Congressional District: 2
Principal Investigators: Boving, Tom (University of Rhode Island); Fastovsky, David
Abstract: This proposal represents the preliminary phase of a project that will eventually provide a single, real-time, user-friendly website, designed to provide Rhode Island citizens with a comprehensive overview of the ongoing status of Rhode Island's water resources. We have compiled a three-year graphic record of water levels in the Scituate Reservoir, and have associated fluxes in these levels with climatic events and relevant historical data (e.g., average water levels in previous years). Here we seek the necessary resources to construct a website to allow the RI public access to these data, data that would otherwise be neither particularly easy to obtain nor interpret.