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Averting a Water Supply Crisis While Protecting Endangered Species: Partnerships Pay Off for Tennessee's Duck River
Author(s) -
Palmer Sally Rollins
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09686.x
Subject(s) - watershed , agency (philosophy) , watershed management , water supply , resource (disambiguation) , environmental planning , environmental resource management , endangered species , geography , business , water resource management , engineering , ecology , environmental science , habitat , sociology , environmental engineering , computer network , social science , machine learning , computer science , biology
In 1999, the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy launched one of its first river projects on the Duck River in Middle Tennessee. The Duck River program quickly became involved with many federal, state, and local partners who were beginning to tackle the water supply challenges facing several communities in the river's watershed. One of the Nature Conservancy's key partners, and the local force behind water resource planning in the watershed, is the Duck River Agency (DRA). From 2000 to 2002, DRA members worked to build trust between all partners within the watershed, improving tools for water management planning and coordinating research priorities and efforts. This article discusses how those first steps at building trust and partnerships within the watershed would pay off very soon. When Tennessee's exceptional drought came along in 2007, it put the relatively new collaboration straight to the test.