Practice Areas

Rivers and Watersheds

The health and ecological integrity of rivers and watersheds affects all people and all wildlife, because every human being and animal on earth lives in a watershed. Increasing population and development, along with harmful land use practices, continue to threaten the health and ecological integrity of rivers and watersheds, sparking a broad range of controversies over the management of water resources. Effective decision-making in the watershed protection, restoration, and management arenas requires an increasing amount of coordination, constructive problem-solving forums, and collaborative capacity on the part of diverse stakeholders and across jurisdictions.

Fortunately, willingness among stakeholders to collaborate is greater than ever. As a leader in building consensus on science-intensive environmental policy issues and in building agencies’ and advocates’ capacities to collaborate, RESOLVE can help in developing and implementing watershed plans, forging agreements to protect or restore water quality, and addressing water quantity challenges head on.

• How RESOLVE Can Help
• Representative Projects
• Selected Results through Consensus