Welcome!
The Water Resources Institute is an academic partnership with the Southern California communities we serve driven by the vision that sustaining water resources rests on sound research, analysis and public policy collaboration.
Commonly referred to as the WRI, we were founded in 1999 when Cal State San Bernardino accepted a premier collection of historical water resource materials from Joseph Andrew Rowe. Additional archival materials have been donated by an array of public agencies, private firms and individuals, including elected officials, engineers, attorneys and business leaders. The collection contains technical journals, engineering and planning reports, well records, maps, aerial photos, pamphlets, government documents and books.
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Joseph and Penn Rowe |
The WRI collection was named the Joseph Andrew Rowe Water Resources Archives (Archives) in 2008 in recognition of an endowed gift by the daughters of Mr. Rowe, Mary Ann McVey and Patricia Rowe Watt.
Using the links on the bar at the top of the HOME page and the items listed in the column to your left, you may access additional information about the Archives.
Over the last decade the WRI has received funding from a variety of public agencies, non-governmental organizations and foundations at the federal, state and local levels to support sound research, analysis and public policy collaboration in partnership with the communities we serve. Use the links on the bar at the top of the page and the items listed in the column to your left, to find more information about our projects.
What's new at the WRI
Grand Opening June 3, 2011 San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District President Patrick Milligan cuts the ribbon and officially opens the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation Demonstration Garden for visitors. The Garden is just over an acre of plantings and displays that showcase water conservation through a series of beautiful themed gardens and exhibits. |
Saturday, November 19 will be the 2011 Lifetime Achievment in Water Resources banquet on campus. Reception is at 6:30 p.m. in the Obershaw Dining Room in the Upper Commons.
The WRI is pleased to announce that the nationally acclaimed Water Resources Center Archives has changed its name to the Water Resources Collections and Archives and moved from its previous home at the University of California, Berkeley to the WRI Archivesin CSUSB's Pfau Library and the library at University of California, Riverside. "This collaboration between UCR and CSUSB will serve all campuses of our two systems, as well as the public," said Albert Karnig, president of CSUSB. "It's further evidence of the close cooperation between the state's two systems of higher education and the importance placed on our state and region's water legacy." Read about the transfer here.
The WRI's latest project, funded by the California Department of Water Resources, comes at a critical time for water suppliers, who are working to prepare and adopt updates to their 2005 Urban Water Management Plans (UWMP). This funding will enable the WRI, working in collaboration with the stakeholders in Southern California Water Committee and Southern California Water Dialogue, to manage the preparation of a Water Management Planning Report with Practical Recommendations for Southern California Water Agencies (Report. The Report will identify methods that will provide an efficient, transparant blueprint for water supply planning.
The WRI is open during the summer from 8 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday