Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID 2017PR178B

Third Conference on Water Resource Sustainability Issues on Tropical Islands

Institute: Puerto Rico
Year Established: 2017 Start Date: 2017-03-01 End Date: 2018-02-28
Total Federal Funds: $6,000 Total Non-Federal Funds: $3,000

Principal Investigators: Jorge Rivera-Santos, Walter Silva

Project Summary: The four water resources research institutes in the Islands Region of the United States Geological Survey’s National Institutes for Water Resources program will convene a conference in the territory of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands during December 2017. The conference will be a follow-up as part of the series established by the institutes and held in November 2011 and again in Honolulu in December 2015 to provide a platform for discussion between water resources researchers, various water stakeholders and others on existing water resources issues facing tropical islands and those issues that are likely to develop in the future particularly due to the anticipated changes in climate.