Water Resources Management

This field deals with planning and management of one of our most vital natural resources, water.  The allocation of this precious resource presents many complex regulatory, legal and environmental issues.

To deal with these issues one needs expertise in many areas such as the Clean Water Act, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and Endangered Species Act, evaluating instream flow recommendations from a variety of sources, giving expert testimony about water rights, consulting with stakeholders, agencies and communities and incorporating both biological and cultural resources into on management plans, and understanding many different modeling analyses.

Professions in this field we routinely recruit include:

• Hydrologists
• Water Quality Specialists
• Environmental Attorneys
• Wetland and Wildlife Biologists
• Air Quality and Noise Analysts
• Geographic Information System (GIS) and Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) Specialists
• Stakeholder Involvement and Facilitation Specialists
• Urban and Land Use Planners
• Water Management Planners
• Geomorphologists and Geohydrologists
• Habitat Restoration Specialists
• Aquatic Ecologists
• Fisheries Scientists
• Botanists
• Economists
• Watershed Managers