The Water Resources Research Act of 1964 (WRRA) undertook "... a coordinated scientific research program in water...", which constitutes "... the greatest resource problem facing the West and the Nation ..." The WRRA's principal result was establishment of the National Institutes for Water Resources.

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One of the earliest research grants of the WRRA went to eventual Nobel Memorial Prize-laureate

Elinor Ostrom Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, ...

at the beginning of her career.

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Water Resources Research Act, as amended in 2006Statement of President Lyndon B. Johnston on the occasion of the approval of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, July 17, 1964
1964 in American law 88th United States Congress Water law in the United States Water resource management in the United States {{US-law-stub