Uday Joshi Massachusetts - The Sustainable Rivers Project Uday Joshi of Massachusetts has spent much of his life studying water and water systems, and would like to use his skills to foster the development and modernization of water storage in the United States, and the rebuilding of water infrastructure and conveyance.
The United States built thousands of large dams and other water projects during the twentieth century, he says, in order to meet the ever-growing demand for water and everything that it is used for. But now, more than a decade into the twenty-first century, many of those old systems are aging. Many have not been fully reviewed and updated to meet current needs, or to prepare for future need. And the time to do something about that, he says, is now.
Uday Joshi of Massachusetts has the skill to understand the geology, hydrology, policy and law of water development. . And modernizing old water projects, it is suggested, would improve the social, economic and environmental benefits they have been providing for generations.
He says that environmental engineers understand as never before that rivers must be treated as whole systems. Managing dams in coordination with flood-prone lands allows the dams to better meet diverse social and environmental needs. Flood protection may be maximized by keeping reservoirs below capacity, but doing so minimizes their ability to provide water supplies. But using the natural features of a floodplain downstream from dams to store infrequent floodwater and developing aquifer storage and recovery enables society to keep more water in reservoirs and available for use, thereby enjoying regular and consistent benefits for all uses.
Systematic changes to dam operations has been studied and demonstrated under the Sustainable Rivers Project, a collaboration of the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Nature Conservancy, and other partners. Uday V. Joshi of Massachusetts believes the Sustainable Rivers Project and aquifer storage and recovery can help to revitalize the water storage and infrastructure in the United States
and provide economic, social and environmental benefits for many years to come. He has lived in New Mexico for the last fourteen years.