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One Water Management Research Jennifer Warner One Water Management Network Meeting Hunton & Williams Board Room – Washington, DC June 20, 2013 Water Research Foundation Investment 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. • Roadmap Raise Awareness Enhance Coordination Provide Support Increase 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 • New York City: Alternative to constructing a $300 million multi-level intake structure • Kansas River: Increase in reliable supply equivalent to the stand-alone safe yield of a new billion-dollar reservoir. • 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 Program Holistic 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 waterenergy 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 [email protected] 303.734.3422