Sevier River Basin Generates International Interest
TOP Update
Winter 2001
Volume 4, Number 1
Roger Hansen and Arlen Hilton of the TOP-funded Sevier River Basin-Water Resource Management
Network recently visited the People's Republic of China at the invitation of water professionals
there. While in Beijing, they presented a seminar at the China Institute for Water Resource
and Hydro-power Research (IWHR) concerning their research in the United States, including
the Sevier River Basin in Utah, where better and more timely information is leading to better water
management.
During the presentation, the web site (www.sevierriver.org)
being created for the TOP-funded
generated a lot of interest. From Beijing, Hansen and Hilton were able to get online and browse
the site, demonstrating how the Internet can be used to improve the operation of a water project
or watershed. For example, instead of having to drive to a monitoring or control site, the
water users are now able to use the Internet to see what is happening using the web browser
on their computer. The Sevier River Basin web site is the joint product of the Sevier River
Water Users Association and StoneFly Technology,
a Utah-based consulting firm. The web site
is designed to collect and dispense real-time river flows, reservoir levels, canal flows,
irrigation orders, and weather information.