Heartland Regional Water Quality Coordination Initiative

The Heartland Initiative's Bioenergy and Water

Resources (BWR) issue team is sponsoring programs

that integrate soil management, agricultural water 

management and conservation.

The goal of the BWR issue team is to manage ecosystems facing expanding bioenergy development to protect water quality and quantity.

The objectives are to:

Enable educators, agency and independent advisors to better assist producers...

• In reducing or managing the conversion of CRP and other marginal cropland to grain production to minimize runoff losses.
• In efficient nutrient management for water quality protection in ecologically intensive crop production systems, especially those producing bioenergy feedstocks.
• To protect water quality and quantity through optimum irrigation and rain-fed water management.

And to...

• Enhance awareness of natural resource managers and advisors in current and evolving bioenergy production issues including on-farm/fuel production energy efficiency.