Description
Plan, design, and implement programs and strategies to manage water resources, including supply, quality, conservation, and regulatory compliance.
- • Supervise field teams conducting water withdrawals from wells and rivers.
- • Review and evaluate designs for detention basins, storm drains, flood control, and other hydraulic structures.
- • Negotiate water rights or allocation agreements with communities and water facilities.
- • Compile and analyze water resource data using GIS and GPS.
- • Maintain documentation on the condition and trends of specific water bodies.
- • Write proposals, project reports, and educational materials on water supply, demand, and treatment.
- • Recommend policies, procedures, or regulations to achieve water resource and conservation goals.
- • Provide technical assistance to communities on stormwater monitoring and related programs.
- • Present water resource plans and findings to agencies, stakeholders, and community groups.
- • Identify feasible methods and locations for discharging purified wastewater.
- • Monitor regional water use, demand, and quality.
- • Identify and characterize sources and causes of water pollution.
- • Develop watershed protection and rehabilitation plans.
- • Develop and implement standardized water monitoring and assessment methods.
- • Conduct technical studies on pollutants, treatment options, and resource management.
- • Conduct or oversee investigations of storage, wastewater discharges, pollutants, permits, and compliance issues.
- • Conduct cost-benefit analyses for watershed projects and water management alternatives.
- • Analyze stormwater systems to identify opportunities for improvement.
- • Develop watershed operations strategies to meet supply and conservation targets and ensure regulatory compliance.
- • Conduct or oversee chemical, physical, and biological water quality sampling and monitoring to meet standards.
- • Perform hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
