WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Indiana Water Resources Center officially launched the State of Indiana Waters website.

The website — https://iwrrc.org/indiana-water — provides a single source of information for the general public regarding the status of Indiana’s water resources, including ground and surface waters.

“Water resources in Indiana are used by everyone – including agriculture, industry, residents – and also provide important ecosystem services. Unfortunately, there has not been a regular evaluation of these resources for the entire state, nor is there one place to find this information in a user-friendly format for the public. This website provides up-to-date information for the current water year,” said Linda Prokopy, professor of natural resources social science in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University, and director of the IWRRC.

Providing this information to the public as a single source in an easy-to-understand manner was a need for Indiana and fell within the goals of the IWRRC.

The IWRRC was established under the authority of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 and is one of 54 centers nationwide. The centers are housed at their respective land-grant universities to support water research and disseminate information to the public.

Each of the 54 centers are awarded an annual base grant to help support applied and peer-reviewed research, education and outreach activities on local or regional water resource issues.

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