2 0 2 0 Annual Report + 10-Year Progress Report

The international projects, including research on new Water, Climate and Health Program is based strategies for sustainable irrigated agriculture for in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s the government of Kazakhstan; development of College of Public Health and is closely aligned with a drought and soil moisture monitoring tool in the the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources MEN. [...] governmental and non- project is designed to identify The project will leverage existing governmental organizations’ and promote opportunities connections and engagements staff, entrepreneurs and for inclusive and sustainable of DWFI and the University of smallholder farmers to gain a provision of irrigation water Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) in sub- services to smallholders. [...] The meeting In an exploratory report, DWFI leaders provided participants examined problems related to water Kazakhstan stakeholders with technical analysis of the management, as well as the use of water resources Turkestan Canal and basin, examining the state of the and irrigation equipment. [...] DWFI joins the leaders of the University of Nebraska system in thanking Governor Ricketts for signing the budget package, Senator John Stinner and the Appropriations Committee for their work on the budget, and Senator Kate Bolz of Lincoln for leading the effort to invest in water research at the university. [...] I’m grateful to my University of Nebraska colleagues and our partners who have been a part of this effort, to the philanthropic community who invested in our vision from the start – and, especially, to the farmers and ranchers in Nebraska and around the world who do the hard work every day to put food on our tables.