SC Water Resources Conference next week

Water scientists and federal and state policymakers meet next week in Columbia to share and discuss new information to protect and provide water resources for South Carolina’s growing economy and population.  The 2016 SC Water Resources Conference comes almost exactly one year after South Carolina’s agricultural, suburban and urban infra-structures were overwhelmed by a deluge brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Joaquin.  The flooding caused billions of dollars in damage.  The irony was that one month before a severe drought caused the U-S Department of Agriculture to declare 35 South Carolina counties primary natural disaster areas.