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  • University of Idaho and North Idaho College Team Up to Celebrate Youth Scientific Leaders
    The University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene’s Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI) partnered with North Idaho College (NIC) to celebrate the winners of the 2025 Youth Water Summit. This annual event empowers high school students to investigate and address real-world water issues in their communities through hands-on research, innovation, and public presentation.
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  • Idaho Legislature Allocates $1Million to IWRRI
    The Idaho Legislature has allocated $1 million in funding to the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI) to prioritize water research among all of Idaho’s public institutions of higher education. The newly formed IWRRI Executive Board will direct the use of these funds, consistent with the institute’s research priorities to encourage rigorous, actionable water research.   This funding will launch IWRRI into a new phase of fostering connections across the water community to facilitate research on Idaho’s most pressing water topics….
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  • SEEP, Building Better Watersheds
    As part of the Stormwater and Erosion Education Program (SEEP), professionals are learning how to manage the land’s natural movement of water in a way that benefits communities, infrastructure and local ecosystems.
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  • USGS Releases a Comprehensive Look at Water Resources in the U.S.
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  • IWRRI Director and Assistant Director Attend NIWR
    IWRRI Director and Assistant Director Attend NIWR Director Kendra Kaiser and Assistant Director Meg Wolf traveled to Washington, D.C., in February to attend the National Institute for Water Resources (NIWR) annual meeting. This meeting, which brought together water research institutes from across every state and territory, provided an opportunity to hear about water research and engagement activities across the country and allowed IWRRI to connect and collaborate on regional hydrology-related research activities, especially with colleagues in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and…
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