Water Resources Research Act
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Enacted by | the 88th United States Congress |
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Effective | July 17, 1964 |
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Public law | 88-379 |
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The Water Resources Research Act of 1964 (WRRA) undertook "... a coordinated scientific research program in water...", which constitutes "... the greatest resource problem facing the West and the Nation ..."[citation needed] The WRRA's principal result was establishment of the National Institutes for Water Resources.
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One of the earliest research grants of the WRRA went to eventual Nobel Memorial Prize-laureate Elinor Ostrom at the beginning of her career.[citation needed]
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- Water Resources Research Act, as amended in 2006
- Statement of President Lyndon B. Johnston on the occasion of the approval of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, July 17, 1964
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- 1964 in law
- 88th United States Congress
- Water law in the United States
- Water resource management in the United States
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