Center for Earth and Environmental Science
Indiana University ~ Purdue University, Indianapolis

About CEES

About Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC

The Central Indiana Water Resources Partnership (CIWRP) is a long-term research and development partnership to create a center of excellence in water quality and watershed research development.  This is a cooperative program through which assets and resources of IUPUI's Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) will interface with research and development and engineering networks and organizations maintained by Veolia Water Indianapolis and Veolia Environment.  The creation of a research and development program is part of the management agreement between the City of Indianapolis and Veolia Water.  CIWRP is currently in its second year of the research and development program.  Initial research of the twenty-year partnership is focused on resolving water quality issues.  The program will use a watershed-scale approach to improving water quality.  Questions associated with understanding the conditions within the reservoirs that lead to bloom development, determining the role of watershed inputs to the water quality of the reservoirs, and the role of biogeochemical cycling of nutrients within the reservoirs are among the immediate questions being addressed. Each of these questions requires extensive, detailed, and long-term data sets and undoubtedly will take several years to fully comprehend. Results will be provided to the Central Indiana community as they are discovered and will be incorporated into watershed and reservoir management plans as they are developed. Information will be disseminated via numerous avenues and will form the basis of an integrated Veolia Water Indianapolis/Center for Earth and Environmental Science Educational Outreach Program that targets all of the audiences that are impacted by our water quality and, in turn, impact our water quality. 

“Ideally water quality monitoring programs produce long-term data sets compiled over multiple years to capture the natural, seasonal and year-to-year variations in biological communities and water body constituent concentrations”

– US EPA (2002)

CIWRP Goals Include:

• Create a Node of Drinking Water Research Excellence in Central Indiana

• Develop and Utilize Cutting Edge Research to Address Water Quality Issues in Indianapolis and Globally

• Train Graduate Students for Work in the High-Technology Sector

• Expand and Enhance Environmental Research and Education Programs at IUPUI
   

CIWRP Research Programs

Center for Earth and Environmental Science
 School of Science
 Indiana University~Purdue University, Indianapolis
 723 West Michigan Street, SL118
 Indianapolis, IN 46202
 www.cees.iupui.edu
 cees@iupui.edu